必修第二册 Unit 5 On the road（word练习）-【勤径学升】2025年高考英语一轮总复习课时检测训练（外研版）

课时检测训练11　必修第二册　Unit 5　On the road 对应学生用书P307 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2023·福州名校调研考试)Should we be thrilled that，for the first time in a century，Australia went more than a week without using any coal to make electricity？While some are welcoming this as a sign that the country is going green，the bigger picture is less encouraging. For one thing，renewables supplied only 23 per cent of electricity during this coal-free period，while 45 per cent came from natural gas. In the past decade，the country has gone from getting a third of its electricity from coal to obtaining more than a third from renewables like onshore wind on average. Australia now gets 11 per cent of its electricity from “renewable” biomass(生物质能燃料)，much of it using imported wood. But forest campaigners say swapping coal for wood isn’t truly renewable and is actually doing huge damage to the environment. For another，Australia is off-track when it comes to meeting its long-term targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions(排放).Producing electricity without burning fossil fuels is relatively easy. But it is much harder to heat homes，to make cement and steel，to grow food and to power cars，ships and planes without producing any greenhouse gases. In view of this，we should handle the energy and climate crises at the same time by finding climate-friendly alternatives to coal. Australia has now stopped the financial aid that drove its renewables revolution. So growth in renewable energy is expected to come to a stop in a decade. The global renewables revolution seems to be following the same trend. The International Energy Agency(IEA) recently announced that the world added 180 gigawatts(吉瓦)of solar，wind，hydropower and bioenergy in 2018，the same as in 2017.But IEA said we must add 300 gigawatts a year to have a chance of limiting global warming to under 2 ℃ by 2100.So we should cheer the end of coal，but continue to worry about how it will be replaced. ［语篇导读］ 本文是一篇说明文。我们应该为澳大利亚“无碳周”感到兴奋吗？虽然一些人将其视为该国的环保举措，但从宏观角度上看它却并不那么鼓舞人心。 1