You wouldn’t expect an Information Age
company like Intel to get on the wrong side of environmentalists, but the
company’s recent 42 billion expansion at Rio Rancho, New Mexico, plunged the
world’s largest semiconductor maker into an age-old Western problem., water
rights. Chip plants consume millions of gallons of water a day, mainly to wash
microscopic dirt from the surface of chips. That’s a problem in the dry West,
where, as Twain remarked, whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting
about. During construction of the new 1.3 million-square-foot
chip-making plant, which starts pro duction this month, residents and activists
complained that the company’s expanding thirst would be too great a drain on
local supplies. After weeks of public hearings, the state of New Mexico last
year granted Intel 72% of the water it request A. Chipmakers face a water problem. B. Intel causes pollution to environment. C. Shortage of water resources in Information Age. D. Intel’s new technology of saving water.
[单项选择] Passage Four
You ask how to start a business Here
is an example. David Dawson, a serious mountain climber, was
dissatisfied with soft iron pitons (锥锤), the only ones he was able to buy. They
lasted just one or two climbs, and Dawson wanted to replace them with
"chrome-molys" (铬率合金), which were harder, stronger and longer-lasting. Some
climbers made them for limited distribution among friends, but they were not
commercially available. So Dawson started Dawson Equipment Ltd. , a purveyor
(承办商) of climbing equipment, as a one-man enterprise in Burbank, California, in
1958. He had no plan, no management experience and no advertising. He worked in
a shed using a hand forge purchased with $ 800 of capital borrowed from his
mother. What Dawson did have was a knowledge of the kind of
equipment that he needed in his own climbs, and a sense that A. they were too soft to bear the climber’s weight B. they were the only pitons he could afford to buy C. they coul not last long D. they were made of iron
[单项选择] Passage One
After flexing its mechanical arm and
finding some puzzling chemistry in a patch of Martian soil,the robotic rover
Spirit began investigating the composition of a rock named Adirondack yesterday
with two science instruments and a microscopic camera. Following
programmed instructions from flight controllers, the six-wheel rover made
several short turns and moved forward about six feet. It stopped within inches
of the pyramid-shaped rock, about the size of a football. It was the vehicle’s
second maneuver on the Martian surface since landing there on Jan. 3.
Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said they
did not expect results of the first rock examination until early today. But they
were already both pleased and puzzled over the soil test results.
"We’re starting to put together a picture of A. A Brief Introduction to the Research Work of the Science Team B. The Difference of the Geologists on the Composition of a Rock on Mars C. What Force Stick Together the fine grains of the Gusev Surface D. The Spirit Began to Study the Composition of a Rock on Mars
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