In addition to the established energy sources such as gas, coal, oil and nuclear, there are a number of other sources that we ought to consider. Two of these are hydroelectric and tidal power.These two sources are 1 in that they are both renewable. 2 , hydropower is more widely used than tidal. In 3 , a substantial amount of electricity is already produced in HEP (hydroelectric power)stations worldwide, 4 tidal stations are still in the very early 5 of development.As far as geographical 6 is concerned, HEP projects are to be found on lakes and rivers. while tidal 7 are constructed only at river mouths where tidal 8 is great. Unfortunately these are 9 in number. At present HEP stations are found mainly in Norway, Canada, Sweden and Brazil, whereas tidal plants are in 10 in France, Russia and China.As regards capital 11 , both require very high investment. On the other hand, generating 12 are quite low in both cases. In fact, a large scale HEP plant is capable of producing power more 13 than conventional sources, such as coal, oil and nuclear plants. Tidal power also compares 14 with nuclear and oil generated electricity, 15 the amount of money on production. 16 HEP stations, tidal constructions have a long life 17 . It is estimated that they can operate for over 100 years. With respect to 18 of supply, tidal stations 19 from HEP ones in that they often can only supply power 20 . HEP stations, however, provide a constant supply of electricity.
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B. production
C. procession
D. action
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Inflation has just exploded. The real problem is that we have an underlying rate of inflation—an impetus of wages chasing prices—of maybe 9 percent that is heading towards 10 percent. There also have been tremendous shocks in energy, food and housing prices, making it worse.By the end of the year, we will be in a situation where year in, year out, we can look forward to at least 10 percent inflation. And the question will be: How much worse will oil, food and housing prices make thatThe situation has degenerated to the point that the only way to turn it around is to think of some very extreme changes in policy. A policy of gradualism, where you"re talking about a mild recession and another 1 to 2 million people unemployed, won"t make much difference. Postponing action just means that inflation presses further and is even more difficult to deal with.You have to start with revenue and monetary restraint. All the burden now is on monetary policy. We should shift to a much more restrictive revenue policy and an easier monetary policy. To be significant, the 1981 budget should be cut by at least 20 billion dollars from 616 billion President Carter proposed. That"s a major cut in government programs—and very hard to do. It"s impossible if you save defense and all the programs indexed for changes in the cost of living.So it means cuts across the board in every area—including the indexed programs, such as Social Security and food stamps. State and local-government revenue-sharing programs are another major candidate. You"ve also got to reopen the 1980 budget and cut that.Then I would favor wage and price controls to break the impetus of the wage-price interaction In order to get quick results, I"d set the standard around 5 or 6 percent for both wages and prices. Basically, you"re aiming to cut the rate of inflation in half the first year. There would be no exceptions, but you would focus on large corporations and major labor settlements.For thespecial sectorswhere the big shocks have occurred, controls won"t work. Instead, you need additional policies in each one of those areas.There are no cheap or easy solutions to the inflation problem. My answer is to take all the things that everybody wants to do, and instead of choosing among them, do all of them. We"ve got to think in terms of a comprehensive program. What is the text mainly about
A. The defect of US monetary system.
B. The causes of ever-worsening inflation in the US.
C. Prospects for the US economic situation.
D. A comprehensive settlement of inflation in the US.
In addition to the established energy sources such as gas, coal, oil and nuclear, there are a number of other sources that we ought to consider. Two of these are hydroelectric and tidal power.These two sources are 1 in that they are both renewable. 2 , hydropower is more widely used than tidal. In 3 , a substantial amount of electricity is already produced in HEP (hydroelectric power)stations worldwide, 4 tidal stations are still in the very early 5 of development.As far as geographical 6 is concerned, HEP projects are to be found on lakes and rivers. while tidal 7 are constructed only at river mouths where tidal 8 is great. Unfortunately these are 9 in number. At present HEP stations are found mainly in Norway, Canada, Sweden and Brazil, whereas tidal plants are in 10 in France, Russia and China.As regards capital 11 , both require very high investment. On the other hand, generating 12 are quite low in both cases. In fact, a large scale HEP plant is capable of producing power more 13 than conventional sources, such as coal, oil and nuclear plants. Tidal power also compares 14 with nuclear and oil generated electricity, 15 the amount of money on production. 16 HEP stations, tidal constructions have a long life 17 . It is estimated that they can operate for over 100 years. With respect to 18 of supply, tidal stations 19 from HEP ones in that they often can only supply power 20 . HEP stations, however, provide a constant supply of electricity.
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B. periods
C. years
D. sessions
Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith, echoes the prevailing view of contemporary technology when she says that "anyone in today"s world who doesn"t understand data processing is not educated." But she insists that the increasing emphasis on these matters leave certain gaps. Says she: "The very strongly utilitarian emphasis in education, which is an effect of man-made satellites and the cold war, has really removed from this culture something that was very profound in its 18th and 19th century roots, which was a sense that literacy and learning were ends in themselves for a democratic republic."In contrast to Plato"s claim for the social value of education, a quite different idea of intellectual purposes was advocated by the Renaissance humanists. Overjoyed with their rediscovery of the classical learning that was thought to have disappeared during the Dark Ages, they argued that the imparting of knowledge needs no justification—religious, social, economic, or political. Its purpose, to the extent that it has one, is to pass on from generation to generation the corpus of knowledge that constitutes civilization. "What could man acquire, by virtuous striving, that is more valuable than knowledge" asked Erasmus, perhaps the greatest scholar of the early 16th century. That idea has acquired a tradition of its own. "The educational process has no end beyond itself," said John Dewey. "It is its own end."But what exactly is the corpus of knowledge to be passed on In simpler times, it was all included in the medieval universities" Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music) and Trivium (grammar, rhetoric, logic). As recently as the last century, when less than 5% of Americans went to college at all, students in New England establishments were compelled mainly to memorize and recite various Latin texts, and crusty professors angrily opposed the introduction of any new scientific discoveries or modern European languages. "They felt," said regretfully Charles Francis Adams, Jr., the Union Pacific Railroad president who devoted his later years to writing history," that a classical education was the important distinction between a man who had been to college and a man who had not been to college, and that anything that diminished the importance of this distinction was essentially revolutionary and tended to anarchy." According to the third paragraph, which of the following is true
A. Five percent of American college students learnt Latin texts.
B. Students in New England learnt Latin texts in official organizations.
C. Students were compelled to learn modern European languages.
D. American college students had to learn Latin grammar by heart.
In addition to the established energy sources such as gas, coal, oil and nuclear, there are a number of other sources that we ought to consider. Two of these are hydroelectric and tidal power.These two sources are 1 in that they are both renewable. 2 , hydropower is more widely used than tidal. In 3 , a substantial amount of electricity is already produced in HEP (hydroelectric power)stations worldwide, 4 tidal stations are still in the very early 5 of development.As far as geographical 6 is concerned, HEP projects are to be found on lakes and rivers. while tidal 7 are constructed only at river mouths where tidal 8 is great. Unfortunately these are 9 in number. At present HEP stations are found mainly in Norway, Canada, Sweden and Brazil, whereas tidal plants are in 10 in France, Russia and China.As regards capital 11 , both require very high investment. On the other hand, generating 12 are quite low in both cases. In fact, a large scale HEP plant is capable of producing power more 13 than conventional sources, such as coal, oil and nuclear plants. Tidal power also compares 14 with nuclear and oil generated electricity, 15 the amount of money on production. 16 HEP stations, tidal constructions have a long life 17 . It is estimated that they can operate for over 100 years. With respect to 18 of supply, tidal stations 19 from HEP ones in that they often can only supply power 20 . HEP stations, however, provide a constant supply of electricity.
A. expenditures
B. benefits
C. costs
D. profits