human activities could be more closely supervised. The group says governments must take
responsibility for the future of their coastal communities.
Task 6:
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A. with the destruction estimated at Since 1996, members of the group have claimed to have damaged or burned is to stop development and other activities they consider harmful to nature. They say their property attacks are aimed at its goals. But it says it is opposed to Traditional environmental B.
1) a 17-year-old student，the state of New York，cooperate with officials investigating the Earth Liberation Front
2) environmental extremists，the group usually leaves very little evidence behind
【原文】
For years, American law enforcement officials have been trying to solve a series of
environmental crimes. The crimes are linked to a group known as the Earth Liberation Front. The group claims responsibility for hundreds of acts of destruction in the United States during the past five years. The destruction has caused more than thirty million dollars worth of damage.
Federal investigators say they are finally closer to solving the crimes. Recently, a seventeen-year-old student reportedly admitted setting a series of fires in the state of New York. He was charged in connection with acts of damage believed to be carried out by the Earth Liberation Front. The student is the son of a New York City police officer. He reportedly made the admission during a secret court hearing. As part of a deal, the student agreed to cooperate with officials investigating the Earth Liberation Front. He could face up to twenty years in prison.
This is the first time that a member of the group has admitted being responsible for environmental crimes linked to the Earth Liberation Front. Three other suspects in the property
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attacks were negotiating with federal officials.
Since Nineteen-Ninety-Six, members of the group have claimed to have damaged or burned hundreds of new homes, tree-cutting companies, federal offices and animal and plant research laboratories. They say their goal is to stop development and other activities they consider harmful to nature. They say their property attacks are aimed at industry and rich people who profit from the destruction of the natural environment.
The Earth Liberation Front says it will use any direct action necessary to carry out its goals. But it says it is opposed to harming animals or humans. Traditional environmental groups in the United States reject the group's methods.
The Earth Liberation Front includes environmental extremists who operate independently of each other. Federal investigators say their lack of structure has made them difficult to stop. And they say the group usually leaves very little evidence behind.
A few weeks ago, the group claimed responsibility for burning several new homes in Mount Sinai, New York. It has also claimed responsibility for destructive acts in Colorado, Arizona, Oregon and Wisconsin.
Task 7:
【答案】
A.
renewable energy，the next ten years，1 percent，1,500 megawatts，past 20 years，38 cents，3 cents，a 90 percent drop，government support
B.
A number of people who live on or visit the Cape say Cape Cod is a national treasure should not be open to industry. They argue that building the windmills would hurt fish and birds in the area, and it would hurt tourism. They say the windmills will ruin the beauty of looking out to sea from the coast.
C.
1) T
2) F
【原文】
A study says wind power will lead the growth in the use of renewable energy in the United
States and Canada over the next ten years. Renewable energy also includes forms like power from the sun. Navigant Consulting in the United States carried out the study. Energy companies helped pay for much of the research.
The use of wind energy has grown in the United States, but remains less than one percent of
all the energy produced.
Lisa Frantzis led the study. She says the researchers expect additions of as much as
one-thousand-five-hundred megawatts from wind power projects each year. That is about equal to the energy production of one nuclear power station.
The study says there have been major improvements in the performance of all renewable
energy technologies in the past twenty years. For example, the study reports a ninety percent drop
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in the price of electricity produced from wind. In the nineteen-eighties a kilowatt hour of wind
power cost about thirty-eight cents. Now, a kilowatt hour is closer to three cents.
The study found that government support must continue and grow to permit renewable
energies to compete in the power industry.
However, some renewable energy companies face criticism. In fact, wind energy producers
usually have to deal with opposition from communities they try to enter.
Currently, a wind energy company is trying to set up business in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in