Unit 2 补充阅读理解练习 China’s first desert-based solar and wind energy farm goes online 课件-2022-2023学年人教版（2019）高中英语选择性必修第一册

China’s first desert-based solar and wind energy farm goes online 1 GETTING STARTED Questions: How much do you know about renewable energy? What are its common sources and what are its advantages compared to traditional forms of energy? What are the uses of renewable energy in our daily life? Please discuss these questions with your classmates. 2 DIGGING IN Directions: Read the text and complete the table. generating power first phase 19 provinces 3 1. In the future, electricity will be used __________ (power) road vehicles. 2. The information __________ (transmit) electronically to the central computer. 3. The wood in our furniture all comes from __________ (renew) sources. 4. It’s an extremely __________ (effect) cure for a headache. Directions: Fill in the blanks using the appropriate forms of the words given in the brackets. to power is transmitted renewable effective 4 FURTHER EXPLORATION Fascinating facts about renewable energy 　　1. Solar energy is almost 200 years old. Solar energy is far from a modern-day invention. In 1839, Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel discovered the “photovoltaic effect” — electricity generated from direct sunlight, otherwise known as solar energy. 　　2. Iceland leads the world with nearly 100% of its energy produced from renewable sources, drawing from the nation’s abundant geothermal (地热的) and hydroelectric (水力发电的) reserves. 　　3. Hydropower is the world’s largest source of renewable energy. The world’s largest hydroelectric power plant is the Three Gorges Dam in China. 5 FURTHER EXPLORATION 　　4. The Romans were the first to use geothermal energy to heat their homes. They designed buildings that encouraged warm air to move under floors and inside walls to heat their homes. The Romans also took advantage of direct geothermal energy, building communal baths on locations with hot springs across Italy. 　　5. Solar energy can be stored in salt. Known as molten-salt (熔盐) technology, this process uses concentrated sunlight to melt salt at