2024届高考英语外刊阅读天天练综合训练二十六

高考英语外刊阅读天天练 综合训练二十六 I 阅读理解 Embracing renewable energy to save tradition 【The Washington Post(March 15, 2024)】 Out on the ice, Toku Oshima can hunt and fish the same way her parents did. But those ways are under threat. Human-caused climate change has scrambled weather patterns and pushed the rhythms of animals out of sync with the ice and sun. Residents struggle to earn a living, keep their homes warm and lit during the long arctic night. Qaanaaq residents should be able to heat their homes without sacrificing their culture. But that will require them to cast off the culprit behind their dual challenges of climate change and energy security: fossil fuels. Located less than 1,000 miles from the North Pole, Qaanaaq can sometimes feel like “the end of the world.” Some 650 people live in the hamlet of brightly colored wooden buildings, perched on a narrow stretch of bare land between the gargantuan Greenland Ice Sheet and the frigid waters of Baffin Bay. There are no roads linking Qaanaaq to the rest of the island. Visitors, groceries and other essentials can only come on twice-weekly planes. The intense cold and long stretches without sunlight mean energy demand is sky high. Many families spend more on heat and electricity than they do on food. Oshima was mulling the survival concern as she persuaded a Dartmouth College professor named Mary Albert to come to Qaanaaq and help bring renewable energy to the town. They called their initiative“Qulleq,” a Inuktun word for the soapstone lamps Greenlanders once used to light their homes. It was by sitting with residents in their homes that the team identified one of their first targets: the houses themselves. Most were built using kits crafted for Danish, not Greenlandic, weather — making them “absolute sieves for energy,” Albert said. So, PhD student Alyssa Pantaleo teamed up with Oshima’s husband, carpenter Kim Petersen, to come up with better-insulated alternatives. They created a modular design that could be easily built