视听说教程（第三版）4 quiz 4

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本文探讨了能源保护在减轻环境问题中的作用，指出尽管无法完全替代化石燃料、核能和可再生能源，但通过提高能源使用效率，可以显著减少能源需求，从而减轻环境后果。文章还讨论了能源生产的整个周期，包括开采、处理、转换和使用，强调了在能源使用方面存在很大的节能潜力。

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视听说教程（第三版）4 quiz 4
Reading Comprehension

Section A
Passage One
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.

As all forms of electricity generation involve some harmful environmental effects, the conservation of energy is being encouraged by environmentalists and by Government as an alternative means of easing the problems. Indeed conservation has been referred to as the “fourth fuel” because of the possibility of meeting electricity demand by improving the efficiency of use rather than building additional power stations. Conservation cannot of itself replace the other three — fossil, nuclear and renewable — but by reducing the amount of energy required can lessen the environmental consequences (后果).
Properly applied, conservation of energy involves considering the whole energy cycle including mining, processing, conversion and use, and includes manufacture and disposal of all equipment used within the energy cycle. One step in the process is to ensure that energy is produced as efficiently as possible, but present methods of using fossil fuels, nuclear power and renewable energy are already close to the theoretical limit as regards efficiency of conversion, so great improvements cannot be reached.
However, with regard to the usage of energy there are very significant savings to be made in all sorts of ways — the better heat insulation (保温) of houses and the development and acceptance of fuel-efficient cars are but two examples. In the longer term society may have to accept that the current usage of energy is unsustainable (不可持续的) and that fundamental decisions about our way of life will have to be taken. But conservation can only be taken so far. Energy, including electricity, will always be needed by society. Power stations will still have to be built and they will still have environmental consequences.

Which of the following cannot be learned from the first paragraph?
A) The environment has much to do with energy production.
B) There are four types of fuel in the world.
C) Conservation can make the environment problems less