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课时检测训练18选择性必修第一册 UNIT 2 LOOKING INTO THE FUIURE ,对应答案P456 I.阅读理解 people can have access to them,”she says.“Not 1 just wealthier people. (2023·山东模拟预测)Nowadays, Last year,almost 5%of approximately 67 countries are eager to get more electric cars on million new cars sold worldwide were electric. the road because moving away from gas-powered For Venkat Viswanathan,a professor of vehicles is vital to fighting climate change. mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon China says that most new vehicles sold by 2035 University,green clectricity is part of the will be electric.The United Kingdom will ban solution to climate change,and electric cars are new gas-powered cars in 2030.One of the just the beginning.He sees a future of solar- world's major automakers,General Motors powered homes and electric flying cars."Soon, (GM),announced that it would stop selling gas- a plug-in vehicle might be as cheap as a gas- powered cars by 2035. powered car.It is now abundantly clear that The key to an electric future is batteries. electric is the future,”he says..“It will be a Automakers are racing to pack the most energy totally new world. into the smallest one.The lithium-ion battery is 1.Which word best describes Trancik's attitude what powers our mobile devices.which can be to the lithium-ion battery? recharged again and again.Making these A.Conservative. B.Skeptical. batteries has an environmental cost.Lithium is C.Positive. D.Disapproving. taken from the earth,like the oil used to make 2.What does Trancik indicate about charging gasoline.But the long-term cost is much stations in Paragraph 3? smaller."Once you burn gasoline,you can't recycle it,says Jessika Trancik,a researcher at A.They should come down in price. the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. B.They may be unfairly laid out. "But when you use up a battery,you can still C.Enough of them have been built. recycle the material." D.They favor more ordinary people. It's up to governments to make electric cars 3.What can b