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Scientists in India have invented a new way to produce electricity. Their invention does not get its power from oil, coal or oth
Scientists in India have invented a new way to produce electricity. Their invention does not get its power from oil, coal or oth
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2012-09-11
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问题
Scientists in India have invented a new way to produce electricity. Their invention does not get its power from oil, coal or other fuels. It produces electricity with the power of animals. India has about eighty million bullocks (小牛). They do all kinds of jobs. They work in the fields. They pull vehicles through the streets. They carry water containers. Indian energy officials have been seeking ways to use less imported oil to provide energy. Scientists at the National Institute for Industrial Engineering in Bombay (孟买) wondered whether the millions of bullocks could help. Many villages in India lack electricity, but they have many bullocks. And often the animals are not working. One job done by bullocks is to pump water out of the well. The animals do this by walking around and around in a circle. As they walk, they turn a heavy stick that makes the pump move. This simple technology is centuries old. Scientists thought that the same technology could be used to produce electricity. Bullocks walk in a circle only two or three times a minute. This is much too slow to produce electricity, but it can create enough power to turn a series of gears (齿轮). A large gear sits next to a smaller gear. As the large gear turns, it causes the smaller gear to turn. That gear turns an even smaller one. Each gear moves faster because it is a little smaller. The smallest gear may turn extremely fast. Clocks operate with gears. So do cars and so does the device invented by the Indian scientists to produce electricity.
According to the officials in the United Nations, the idea is being tested at several places in India. The device is easy to operate and repair. And it can be moved easily. It costs about three hundred and seven dollars now to make such a device, but production of large numbers of them could cut the cost of each to about two hundred dollars.
In the sentence "This simple technology is centuries old" in Paragraph One, "This simple technology" refers to______.
选项
A、using bullocks to produce energy
B、using pumps to draw water out
C、having bullocks walk around to make the pump move
D、connecting gears of different sizes to produce electricity
答案
C
解析
本题是细节题。在文章中找到这句话,前一句和后一句分别是“它们会带动一根很沉的棍子,这根棍子又能够带动抽水泵运动起来”;“科学家们认为同样的技术可以用来发电”。可以看出这种技术和后来提到的发电是要有某种联系的。因此可以直接选C。另外,从后一句话可以知道后面要说的是利用这种技术来发电,因此排除A、D。而B项未提到小牛的作用,因此也可以选出正确答案。
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