[单项选择]Steel, coal and oil are to industry ______ food is to man.
A. that
B. so
C. and
D. as

[单项选择]For generations coal and oil have been regarded as the chief energy sources used to transpolt men from place to place．


A. 煤和石油世世代代都被认为是人类来往于各地进行交通的主要能源。
B. 煤和石油不仅是用来发电而且是用于交通的主要能源。
C. 多年来，煤和石油一直被认为是交通运输的主要能源。
D. 煤和石油一直都是人类世代相传使用的主要交通能源。

[单项选择]China has a lot of coal and oil, and it is rich in other rare minerals ______.
A. as well
B. also
C. either
D. neither

[单项选择]Users of heating oil were unaffected by the coal ______.
A. decline
B. vacancy
C. rarity
D. shortage

[单项选择]The heat released by burning oil and coal is the direct cause of global warming.

[单项选择]What brings trouble to fast food industry

[单项选择]According to the passage, the oil industry might lead northern Norway to ______.
A. the development of industry
B. a growth in population
C. the failure of the development program
D. the development of new towns

[单项选择]What is the aim of the oil-for-food program

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Text 2
Saudi Arabia, the oil industry’s swing producer, has become its flip-flopper. In February, it persuaded OPEC to cut its total production quotas by lm barrels per day (bpd), to 23.5m, as a precaution against an oil-price crash this spring. That fear has since been replaced by its opposite. The price of West Texas crude hit $40 last week, its highest since the eve of the first Iraq war, prompting concerns that higher oil prices could sap the vigour of America’s recovery and compound the frailty of Europe’s. On Monday May 10th, Ali al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, called on OPEC to raise quotas, by at least 1.5m bpd, at its next meeting on June 3rd.
Thus far, the high oil price has been largely a consequence of good things, such as a strengthening world economy, rather than a cause of bad things, such as faster inflation or slower growth. China’s burgeoning economy guzzled about 6m bpd in the first quarter of this
A. Saudi Arabia reversed its earlier decision.
B. Saudi Arabia objected to the rise of oil price.
C. Saudi Arabia was concerned about the world economy.
D. Saudi Arabia wished to reduce the oil production.