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generating (发电) and transmission (输送) system for the 21st century will leave a lasting mark on the
West, for better or worse. Much of the real significance of railroads and highways is not in their direct
physical effect on the scenery, but in the ways that they affect the surrounding community. The same
is true of big solar plants and the power lines that will be laid down to move electricity around.
The 19th century saw land grant (政府拨地) offered to railroad companies to build the transcontinental
railroads, leaving public land in between privately owned land. In much of the West, some of the railroad
sections were developed while others remained underdeveloped, and in both cases the landownership has
presented unique challenges to land management. With the competition of the interstate highway system,
many of the small towns which sprang up as railway stops and developed well, have lost their lifeblood
and died.
Big solar plants and their power lines will also have effects far beyond their direct footprint in the West.
This is not n argument against building them. We need alternative energy badly, and to really take advantage
of it we need to be able to move electricity around far more readily than we can now.
So trade-offs will have to be made. Some scenic spots will be sacrificed. Some species (物种) will be
forced to move, or will be carefully moved to special accommodations. Deals will be struck to reduce the
immediate effects.
The lasting effects of these trade-offs are another matter. The 21st century development of the American
West as an ideal place for alternative energy is going to throw off a lot of power and money in the region.
There are chances for that power and money to do a lot of good. But it is just likely that they will be spent
wastefully and will leave new problems behind, just like the railroads and the highways.
The money set aside in negotiated trade-offs and the institutions that control it will shape the West far
beyond the immediate footprint of power plants and transmission lines. So let"s remember the effects of the
railroads and the highways as we construct these new power plants in the West.
B. Some railroad stops remained underused.
C. Land in the West was hard to manage.
D. Land grants went into private hands.
B. The use of money and power.
C. The conservation of solar energy.
D. The selection of an ideal place.
B. Approving
C. Doubtful
D. Disapproving
B. How Solar Energy Could Reshape the West
C. How the Effects of Power Plants Can Be Reduced
D. How the Problems of the Highways Have Been Settled
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green on the outside and, more often than not, hard with an unpleasant taste within. Then in 1996, the Del
Monte Gold pineapple produced in Hawaii first hit our shelves.
The new type of pineapple looked more yellowy-gold than green. It was slightly softer on the Outside
and had a lot of juice inside. But the most important thing about this new type of pineapple was that it was
twice as sweet as the hit-and-miss pineapples we had known. In no time, the Del Monte Gold took the
market by storm, rapidly becoming the world"s best-selling pineapple variety, and delivering natural levels
of sweetness in the mouth, up until then only found in tinned pineapple.
In nutrition (营养) it was all good news too. This nice-tasting pineapple contained four times more vitamin
C (维生素C) than the old green variety. Nutritionists said that it was not only full of vitamins, but also good
against some diseases. People were understandably eager to be able to buy this wonderful fruit. The new type
of pineapple was selling fast, and the Del Monte Gold pineapple rapidly became a fixture in the shopping basket
of the healthy eater.
Seeing the growing market for its winning pineapple, Del Monte tried to keep the market to itself. But other
fruit companies developed similar pineapples, Del Monte turned to law for help, but failed.Those companies
argued successfully that Del Monte"s attempts to keep the golden pineapple for itself were just a way to knock
them out of the market.
B. good-looking outside and soft inside
C. yellowy-gold outside and hard inside
D. a little soft outside and sweet inside
B. It was less sweet and good for health.
C. It was developed by Del Monte.
D. It was used as medicine.
B. that is always present
C. that is difficult to get
D. that people use as a gift
B. succeeded in keeping the pineapple for itself
C. tried hard to control the pineapple marker
D. planned to help the other companies
had another one since it stopped ticking a decade ago. Why? Because I don"t need one. I have a mobile phone
and I"m always near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these devices (装置) tell the time-which
is why, if you look around, you"ll see lots of empty wrists; sales of watches to young adults have been going
down since 2007.
But while the wise have realized that they don"t need them, others-apparently including some distinguished
men of our time-are spending total fortunes on them. Brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Breitling
command shocking prices, up to ￡250.000 for a piece.
This is ridiculous. Expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. Expensive clothes hang better than cheap
clothes. But these days all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. Expensive watches come with
extra functions-but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea or need to find your
direction in the area around the South Pole? So why pay that much of five years" school fees for watches
that allow you to do these things?
If justice were done, the Swiss watch industry should have closed down when the Japanese discovered
how to make accurate watches for a five-pound note. Instead the Swiss reinvented the watch, with the aid
of millions of pounds" worth of advertising, as a message about the man wearing it. Rolexes are for those
who spend their weekends climbing icy mountains; a Patek Philippe is for one from a rich or noble family;
a Breitling suggests you like to pilot planes across the world.
Watches are now classified as "investments" (投资). A 1994 Philippe recently sold for nearly ￡350, 000,
while 1960s Rolexes have gone from 15, 000 to 30, 000 plus in a year. But a watch is not an investment. It"s
a toy for self-satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep going up-they"ve been rising for 15 years.
But when fashion moves on, the owner of that? ￡350, 000 beauty will suddenly find his pride and joy is no
more a good investment than my childhood Times.
B. think watches too expensive
C. prefer to wear an iPod
D. have no sense of time
B. expensive clothes sell better than cheap ones
C. cheap cars don"t run as fast as expensive ones
D. expensive watches with unnecessary functions still sell
B. It"s hard for the industry to beat its competitors.
C. It wastes a huge amount of money in advertising.
D. It"s easy for the industry to reinvent cheap watches.
B. My Childhood Timex.
C. Watches? Not for Me!
D. Watches-a Valuable Collection.
China,
When India had not opened up its markers to the world, I carried suitcase loads of dark glasses and
jeans. Thankfully, we can get all these anywhere in India now.
Still, her answer surprised me:"Green tea."
As long as I can remember she didn"t even drink Indian tea.
I dutifully bought a big packet of Longjing and headed home to hear the story. My mother and her brother,
both regular newspaper readers, believed that Chinese green tea was the wonder drug for all illnesses.
At the turn of the century, China was not really familiar to the average Indian. It was a strange country.
How things change. And how soon.
Now every town of any size seems to have a "China Market". And everyone is talking about China.
The government of India has planned to send a team to China to see how things are done. A minister once
said that India must open the doors for more foreign investment (投资) and such a step would "work wonders
as it did for China".
But it"s a two-way street, I just heard about a thousand Shenzhen office workers who have gone to
Rangalore to train in software. Meanwhile, all the IT majors are setting up a strong presence in China.
No wonder that trade, which was only in the millions just ten years ago, is expected to his about us $15
billion for last year and us $20 billion by 2008, a goal set by both governments.
No wonder, my colleague wrote some weeks ago about this being the Sino-Indian (中印) century as the
two countries started on January I the Sino-Indian Friendship Year.
But what is still a wonder to me is my mother drinking Chinese tea.
B. She had a son working in China.
C. She believed it had a curing effect.
D. She was fond of Chinese products.
B. Tea trade works wonders in both India and China.
C. Chinese products are popular in both China and India.
D. The exchanges between India and China benefit both.
B. It is seeking further development in China
C. It has attracted an investment of US $15 billion
D. It caught up with the US IT industry in2008.
B. his support for drinking Chinese green tea
C. his surprise at China"s recent development
D. his wonder at the growth of India"s IT industry
practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods, including cars, movies and
DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes-the list goes on and on.
The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was
still a child. At high school, he became very interested in computer programming and after graduating
from Tuft University in 1988, he worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time
he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was
so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade (升级) and he began charging a fee to members.
Joined by a friend, Peter Skill and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back.
Even in the great.com crashes of the late 1990s, eBay has gone from strength to strength. It is now one
of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet.
eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have
to do is uploading an e-photo, writing a description, filling out a sales form and you are in business: the
world is your market place. Of course for each item (商品) sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great
deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of
the items are sold.
B. a website for them to upgrade
C. a place to exhibit their own photos
D. a chance to buy things at low prices
B. To make money
C. For gathering the engineers
D. To fulfill a task of his company
B. was always hopeful
C. did not think about the past
D. became more and more successful
B. By charging for each sale
C. By listing items online
D. By making e-photos
you may be able to throw your wallet away and pay for things with a quick wave of your smart phone over
an electronic scanner.
In January, Starbucks announced that customers could start using their phones to buy coffee in 6,800
of its states. This is the first pay-by-phone practice in the U.S., but we"re likely to see more wireless payment
alternatives as something called near field communication (NFC) gets into America"s consumer electronics.
Last December some new smart phones which contain an NFC chip were introduced to the public.
Already in use in parts of Asia and Europe, NFC allows shoppers to wave their phones a few inches above
a payment terminal-a contact-free system built for speed and convenience. But before NFC becomes widely
adopted in the U.S., a few problems need to be worked out, like who will get to collect the profitable transaction
(交易) fees. Although some credit card providers have been experimenting with wave-and-pay systems that
use NFC-enabled credit cards, cell phone service providers may try to muscle their way into the point-of-sale
(POS) market. Three big cell phone service providers have formed a joint venture (合资企业) that will go into
operation over the next 15 months. Its goal is "to lead the U.S. payments industry from cards to mobile
phones."
The other big NFC issue, apart from how payments will be processed, is security, for instance, what"s to
stop a thief from digitally pick-pocketing you? "We"re still not at the point where an attacker can just brush
against you in a crowd and steal all the money out of your phone," says Jimmy Shah, a mobile-security
researcher." Users may also be able to set transaction limits, perhaps requiring a password to be entered for
larger purchases.
Still uneasy about this digital-wallet business? Keep in mind that if you lose your smart phone, it can be
located on a map and remotely disabled. Plus, your phone can be password protected, your wallet isn"t.
B. The boom of pay-by-phone business.
C. The disappearance of credit cards.
D. The increase of Starbucks sales.
B. collect transaction fees easily
C. make purchase faster and simpler
D. improve the quality of cell phones
B. get a share in the payments industry
C. sell more cell phones
D. test the NFC technology
B. Set up a password.
C. Get all the money out of their phones.
D. Cancel large purchases.
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