A breakthrough in the provision of energy from the sun for the European Economic Community

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage？

A．The desired breakthrough could be obtained by the end of the next decade if investment were incrzeased.

B．At the present level of research spending, it is difficult to make any significant progress in the provision of energy from the sun.

C．The EEC spends one billion pounds on imported energy each year.

D．The total yearly spending of the EEC on solar energy research amounted to almost 6 million dollars.

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage？

A．The desired breakthrough could be obtained by the end of the next decade if investment were incrzeased.

B．At the present level of research spending, it is difficult to make any significant progress in the provision of energy from the sun.

C．The EEC spends one billion pounds on imported energy each year.

D．The total yearly spending of the EEC on solar energy research amounted to almost 6 million dollars.

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage？

A) The EEC spends one billion pounds on imported energy each year.

B) At the present level of research spending, it is difficult to make any significant progress in the provision of energy from the sun.

C) The desired breakthrough could be obtained by the end of the next decade if investment were increased.

D) The total yearly spending of the EEC on solar energy research amounted to almost 6 million.

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage？

A．The EEC spends one billion pounds on imported energy each year.

B．At the present level of research spending it is difficult to make any significant progress in the provision of energy from the Sun.

C．The desired breakthrough could be obtained by the end of the next decade if investment were increased.

D．The total yearly spending of the EEC on solar energy research amounted to almost 6 million

Some scientists believe that a breakthrough in the use of solar energy depends on ______.

A．sufficient funding

B．further experiments

C．advanced technology

D．well equipped laboratories

could be brought forward by up to two decades, if a modest increase could be provided in the EEC's research effort in this field, according to the senior EEC scientists engaged in experiments in solar energy at EEC's scientific laboratories at Ispra, near Milan.

The senior West German scientist in charge of the community's solar energy program, Mr. Joachim Gretz, told jurnalists that at present levels of research spending it was most unlikely that solar energy would provide as much as three percent of the Community's energy requirements even after the year 2000. But he said that with a modest increase in the present sums, devoted by the EEC to this work it was possible that the breakthrough could be achieved by the end of the next decade.

Mr. Gretz calculates that if solar energy only provided three percent of the EEC's needs, this could still produce a saving of about a billion bounds in the present bill for imported energy each year. And he believes that with the possibility of utilizing more advanced technology in this field it might be possible to satisfy a much bigger share of the Community's future energy needs.

At present the EEC spends about $2.6 millions a year on solar research at Ispra, one of the EEC's official joint research centers, and another $3 millions a year in indirect research with universities and other independent bodies.

The underlined phrase" be brought forward" (Para. 1) most probably means ______.

A．be advanced

B．be completed

C．be expected

D．be introduced

Passage Two:Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.A breakthrough (突破) in the provision of energy from the sun for the European Economic Community (EEC) could be brought forward by up to two decades, if a modest increase could be provided in the EEC’s research effort in this field, according to the senior EEC scientists engaged in experiments in solar energy at EEC’s scientific laboratories at Ispra, near Milan.

The senior West German scientist in charge of the Community’s solar energy programme, Mr. Joachim Gretz, told journalists that at present levels of research spending it was most unlikely that solar energy would provide as much as three per cent of the Community’s energy requirements even after the year 2000. But he said that with a modest increase in the present＜ sums, devoted by the EEC to this work it was possible that the breakthrough could be achieved by the end of the next decade.

Mr. Gretz calculates that if solar energy only provided three per cent of the EEC’s needs, this could still produce a saving of about a billion pounds in the present bill for imported energy each year. And he believes that with the possibility of utilizing more advanced technology in this field it might be possible to satisfy a much bigger share of the Community’s future energy needs.

At present the EEC spends about $2.6 millions a year on solar research at Ispra, one of the EEC’s official joint research centres, and another $3 millions a year in indirect research with universities and other independent bodies.

第26题：The phrase “be brought forward” (Line 2, Para. 1) most probably means ________.

A) be expected

B) be completed

C) be advanced

D) be introduced

Some scientists believe that a breakthrough in the use of solar energy depends on______.

A．sufficient funding

B．further experiments

C．advanced technology

D．well equipped laboratories

According to the writer, what was the main reason for the failure of her first dance?

A．She was too shy and kept quiet.

B．She was not attractive.

C．She wore diamante earring.

D．She was not in fashion.

s because it includes more features of mythology that are accessible to readers. Its subject (to use Maynard Mack' s categories) is "life-as- spectacle," for readers, diverted by its various incidents, observe its hero Odysseus primarily from without; the tragic Iliad, however, presents "life-as-experience," readers are asked to identify with the mind of Achilles, whose motivations render him a not particularly likable hero. In addition, the Iliad, more than the Odyssey, suggests the complexity of the gods' involvement in human actions, and to the extent that modern readers find this complexity a needless complication, the Iliad is less satisfying than the Odyssey, with its simpler scheme of divine justice. Finally, since the Iliad presents a historically verifiable action. Troy's siege, the poem raises historical questions that are absent from the Odyssey' s blithely imaginative world.

According to the author, why Odyssey has always been more popular than the Iliad?

A．The author is more famous.

B．It is more deliberated in writing.

C．It has a longer history.

D．It includes more features of' mythology.