Question

When you turn on the lights at New Farm,you are using electricity that comes from cows.

Cows produce a lot of waste. One cow can create about 135 liters(升)of waste in a single day. There are about 1,000 cows at New Farm. Imagine how much waste they produce every day!

Some of the cow waste is used as fertilizer (肥料)for the fields. But what about the rest? It used to be a problem. But now New Farm has a new way of using cow waste. They use it to produce electricity.

Here's how it works：A big machine moves around to collect the waste. "Hie cows aren't afraid of the machine，" says Mr. Smith，the owner of New  Farm. "TTiey have got used to it,and just lift one foot and then another to let it go by.” After collecting enough waste，the machine then pours it into a big digester(化糞池）In the digester，bacteria(細菌)get to work and much methane gas(沼氣)is produced. Methane gas is known as a " greenhouse” gas because it keeps heat just like a greenhouse does,causing our earth to warm up. But the digester has a good result. Its gas is kept and used to power electric generators(發電機)， At New Farm,the generators make enough electricity to provide for 400 homes. Mr. Smith sells the electricity his farm does not need.

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(   ) 1. How much cow waste is produced every day at New Farm?

A.  About 135 liters.

B.   About 1,350 liters.

C.   About 13,500 liters.

D.  About 135,000 liters.

(   ) 2. New Farm is using cow waste to

A.  build a greenhouse

B.   make electricity

C.   produce fertilizer

D.  warm up the field

(   ) 3. The underlined word  " it" refers to

A.  a cow foot

B.   cow waste

C.   a big machine

D.  methane gas

(   ) 4. The new way of using cow waste at New Farm can be described as      

A. reducing    B. saving

C. recycling    D. protecting

(   ) 5. What might be the best title for the passage?

A. From Waste to Electricity

B.   New Farm,New Way

C.   More Cows, More Money

D.  From Waste to Fertilizer

Answer 1

l.D根據第二段One cow can create about 135 liters of waste in a single day. There are about 1 ，000 cows at New Farm.可知，New Farm每天產生的牛糞便約有135 x 1,000升，即135 ，000升。故選D。

2. B 根據第三段But now New Farm has a new

way of using cow waste. They use it to produce electricity.可知，New Farm用牛類便來發電。故選B。

3. C 結合前一句The cows aren't afraid of the machine...可知,it所在句子的大意為：牛已經習慣了這個機器,只是抬起一只腳然后另一只腳讓機器過去。it指代機器。故選C。

4. C recycling意為"回收利用，再利用"，本文講的就是對牛糞便的回收利用。故選C。

5. A本文主要介紹將牛糞便回收用來發電,故A項是最佳標題。故選A。