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Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(保护区)(ANWR)to help secure America’s energy future? PresidentObama
Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(保护区)(ANWR)to help secure America’s energy future? PresidentObama
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2018-09-25
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问题
Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(保护区)(ANWR)to help secure America’s energy future? PresidentObama certainly thinks so. He has argued that tapping ANWR’s oil would help ease California’s electricity crisis and increase the country’s energy independence, thus reducing its oil reliance on other countries. But no one knows for sure how much Crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth.
The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% ofU. S. consumption for as long as six years. By pumping more than 1 million barrels a day from the reserve for the next two or three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to(等于)all shipments to the U. S. from Saudi Arabia. An oil increase would also mean a multibillion-dollar windfall(意外之财)in tax revenues, royalties(开采权使用费)and leasing fees for Alaska and the Federal Government. Best of all, advocates of drilling say, damage to the environment would be insignificant. "We’ve never had a document case of oil rig chasing deer out onto the pack ice. " says Alaska State Representative Scott Ogan.
Not so fast, say environmentalists. The National Resources Defense Council says there may be no more than 3. 2 billion barrels of oil in the coastal plain of ANWR, a drop in the bucket that would do virtually nothing to ease America’s energy problems. And consumers would wait up to a decade to gain any benefits, because drilling could begin only after much bargaining. As for ANWR’s impact on the California power crisis, environmentalists point out that oil is responsible for only 1% of the Golden State’s electricity output and just 3% of the nation’s.
What do the environmentalists mean by saying" Not so fast" in the third paragraph?
选项
A、Oil exploitation takes a long time.
B、The oil drilling should be delayed.
C、Don’t be too optimistic.
D、Don’t expect fast returns.
答案
C
解析
此题考查的是“Not so fast”在第三段中的含义,属于语义推断题,需结合上下文来判断。上文讲到了一些人士认为石油开采可能会带来的经济上的好处。第三段的第一句话就说“Not so fast”,并且后文进一步说到,反对派认为石油开采对于美国的能源危机于事无补和消费者至少要等待10年才能获利(consumers would wait up to a decade to gain any benefits)。所以很明显,这里的“Not so fast”的正确含义是“不要过于乐观”,正确答案为C。A项是干扰项,注意文章没有提及石油开发耗时的问题。
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