26 能源发展热点真题-2023年中考英语考前名师为你深度剖析支绝招（通用版）

26 能源发展热点真题 一、阅读单选 （2023·浙江台州·统考一模）How can we save energy and slow down climate change? Well, one way is to use the right tools, such as solar(太阳能) panels, electric cars and smiley faces. Wait...smiley faces? Yes, you read that right. OPower, the new company which works for the utility industry(电力公司) in America, has recently discovered just this. The company has been sending special electricity bills(电费单) to their customers by email. The bills compare the customers’ cost on energy with that of their neighbors. Through this, energy hogs learn that they are more wasteful than others in their their neighbors. The creative bills have led people to start saving energy in this neighborhood. And in the bills, OPower would give smiley faces to people who use less energy than people are helping to fight global greenhouse warming. “I tell you that you’ve spent $1, 200 on heating this year, you don’t know what that mean.” said Dan Yates, the CEO of OPower. “But if I tell you that you spent so more than your neighbors on heating, you may come to realize something.” Lots of people have been receiving these special bills. So far, they have cut their energy use by 2% on average. This may not sound like much, but it has been enough for OPower to make to utilities interested in joining. The U.S. government gives prizes to the utilities for helping people save energy. More than 175 utilities have already started to work with OPower. About 2,000. Americans have been receiving these special electricity bills. More and more people are starting rethink their energy use habits. It seems people never really grow up, as it seems like they can always be affected (受影响) by what other people are doing. And, just like school children competing for the top prize in the class, adults also like receiving a collection of smiley faces. 1．What is special about the electricity bill? A．It is sent to the customers by email. B．It includes the prize money for customers. C．It compares people’s bills with