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2016职称英语理工B 第四部 阅读理解
第四部 阅读理解
Ford Abandons Electric Vehicles
第二篇 World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
第三篇 Citizen Scientists
第四篇 Motoring Technology
第五篇 Late-Night Drinking
第六篇 Making Light of Sleep
第七篇 Sugar Power for Cell Phones
第八篇 Eiffel Is an Eyeful
第九篇An Essential Scientific Process
第十篇 Young Female Chimps Outlearn Their Brothers
第十一篇 When Our Eyes Serve Our Stomach Florida Hit by Cold Air Mass
第十三篇 Invisibility Ring
第十四篇 Japanese Car Keeps Watch for Drunk Drivers
第十五篇 Winged Robot Learns to Fly
第十六篇 Japanese Drilling into Core of Earth
*第十七篇A Sunshade for the Planet
*第十八篇Thirst for Oil
*第十九篇Musical Robot Companion Enhances Listener ExperienceExplorer of the Extreme Deep
*第二十一篇Plant Gas
*第二十二篇Real-World Robots
*第二十三篇 Powering a City? Its a Breeze.
*第二十四篇 Underground Coal Fires -- a Looming Catastrophe
*第二十五篇 Eat to Live
*第二十六篇 Male and Female Pilots Cause Accidents Differently
*第二十七篇 Driven to Distraction
*第二十八篇 Sleep Lets Brain File Memories
*第二十九篇 I will Be Bach
*第三十篇 Digital Realm
*第三十一篇 Hurricane Katrina
*第三十二篇 Mind-reading Machine
*第三十三篇 Experts Call for Local and Regional Control of Sites for Radioactive
第四部分阅读理解
第一篇 Ford Abandons Electric Vehicles
The Ford motor company’s1 abandonment of electric cars effectively signals the end of the road for the technology, analysts say.
General Motors2 and Honda3 ceased production of battery-powered cars in 1999, to focus on fuel cell4 and hybrid electric gasoline engines5, which are more attractive to the consumer. Ford has now announced it will do the same.
Three years ago, the company introduced the Think City two-seater car and a golf cart called the THINK or Think Neighhor6. It hoped to sell 5,000 cars each year and 10,000 carts. But a lack of demand means only about 1,000 of the cars have been produced, and less than 1,700 carts have been sold so far in 2002.
“The bottom line7 is we don’t believe that this is the future of environment transport for the mass market,” Tim Holmes of Ford Eur
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