课时检测训练18 选择性必修第一册 Unit 2 Looking into the Future-【勤径学升】2025年高考英语一轮总复习课时检测训练（人教版）

课时检测训练18选择性必修第一册 UNIT 2 LOOKING INIO THE FUIURE 对应答案P456 I,阅读理解 different people can have access to them,"she A says."Not just wealthier people." (2023·山东模拟预测)Nowadays,countries Last year,almost 5%of approximately 67 are eager to get more electric cars on the road million new cars sold worldwide were electric.For because moving away from gas-powered vehicles is Venkat Viswanathan,a professor of mechanical vital to fighting climate change.China says that engineering at Carnegie Mellon University,green most new vehicles sold by 2035 will be electric. electricity is part of the solution to climate change, The United Kingdom will ban new gas-powered and electric cars are just the beginning.He sees a cars in 2030.One of the world's major future of solar-powered homes and electric flying automakers,General Motors (GM),announced cars."Soon,a plug-in vehicle might be as cheap as that it would stop selling gas-powered cars a gas-powered car.It is now abundantly clear that by2035. electric is the future,"he says."It will be a totally The key to an electric future is batteries. new world." Automakers are racing to pack the most energy 1.Which word best deseribes Trancik's attitude to into the smallest one.The lithium-ion battery is the lithium-ion battery? what powers our mobile devices,which can be A.Conservative. B.Skeptical. recharged again and again.Making these batteries C.Positive. D.Disapproving. has an environmental cost.Lithium is taken from 2.What does Trancik indicate about charging stations in the earth,like the oil used to make gasoline.But Paragraph 3? the long-term cost is much smaller."Once you burn A.They should come down in price. gasoline,you can't recycle it,"says Jessika Trancik,a B.They may be unfairly laid out. researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. C.Enough of them have been built. "But when you use up a battery.you can still D.They favor more ordinary people. recycle the material. 3.What can be inferred from Viswanathan? It's up to g