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Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(ANWR)to help secure America’ s energy future? President Bush cer
Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(ANWR)to help secure America’ s energy future? President Bush cer
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2014-12-31
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Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(ANWR)to help secure America’ s energy future? President Bush certainly thinks so. He has argued that tapping ANWR’ s oil would help ease California’ s electricity crisis and provide a major boost to the country’ s energy independence. But no one knows for sure how much crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth with the last government survey, conducted in 1998, projecting output anywhere from 3 billion to 16 billion barrels.
The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of U.S. consumption for as long as six years. By pumping more than 1 million barrels a day from the reserve for the next two three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to all shipments to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. Sounds good. An oil boom 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. Sticking to the low end of government estimates, the National Resources Defense Council says there may be no more than 3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable 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 over leases, environmental permits and regulatory review. 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.
It can be learned from the passage that oil exploitation beneath ANWR’s frozen earth______.
选项
A、remains a controversial issue
B、is expected to get under way soon
C、involves a lot of technological problems
D、will enable the U.S. to be oil independent
答案
A
解析
本题是对文章主旨大意的考查。本文介绍美国政府准备在北极野生动物保护区开采石油,第一段和第二段提到赞同的原因,第三段提出反对,最后并没有得出结论。即这还是一个充满争议的问题,A正确。其他三项文中都没有明确表示肯定。
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