大學英語快速閱讀教程(第4冊)（簡體書）

《i時代大學英語系列教程:大學英語快速閱讀教程(第4冊)》形式豐富多樣，既有考察學生全文理解的文章結構類題目、時間線索類題目和文章大意總結填空類題目，也有考察學生細節理解的問答題、詞語填空題和排序題，還有考察學生語言技能的句子翻譯題型。

Unit 1 Environmental Protection
Unit 2 Globalization and Localization
Unit 3 New Energy(Low—Carbon Life)
Unit 4 EQ vs.IQ
Unit 5 Social Problems
Unit 6 Media
Unit 7 Surviving a Disaster
Unit 8 Cross Culture
參考答案
附錄A2011年12月英語四級快速閱讀真題及答案
附錄B2010年12月英語四級快速閱讀真題及答案

The first hard truth is that global demand for primary energy is not just growing, but that demandgrowth is accelerating. The main causes are population growth, from six to more than nine billionpeople worldwide by 2050, as well as higher levels of prosperity, with China and India in particularentering the energy-intensive phase of their development. Energy use in 2050 may be twice ashigh as it is today, or higher still.
The second hard truth is that the growth rate of supplies of "easy oil" will struggle to keep up withaccelerating demand. Just when energy demand is surging, many oil provinces are going intodecline.The third hard truth is that continued fossil fuel dominance in combination with a disproportionallyhigh use of coal will cause higher CO2 emissions, possibly to levels scientists considerirresponsible.This is a pretty severe picture. And it would indeed be easy to be discouraged. What are the"solution pathways" that both enhance energy security and help us to manage emissions?SolutionsThe first and most obvious solution pathway is energy efficiency. In my view, energy efficiency hastwo closely related components. One is energy conservation, the other is energy performance.Energy conservation essentially means that we don't use energy unless we have to, or use as littleof it as possible. It involves simple decisions and choices for each and every one of us. Billions ofenergy consumers make tens of billions of small decisions each day to either use or save energy.
In many cases, people opt for what is most convenient. But there is another side to humannature, the desire to overcome obstacles and improve our performance. And we must improveour performance, for our own sake and that of future generations. Sustainable developmentrequires sustainable consumption.