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[填空题]Zambia and Burkina Faso are the two countries without any coast lines.
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Burkina Faso student teacher Hema Cecile has a lot more time to crack the books thanks to a recent initiative from the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The launch of the Lighting Africa program by the two organizations this year has made it possible for Cecile to swap kerosene lamps for a solar-powered LED lantern.
Lighting Africa is a ＄12 million project which intends to bring light to the poorest regions across sub-Saharan Africa. The program works with the lighting industry to develop clean, affordable lighting and energy solutions for millions without access to electric grids. Its aim is to accelerate the market and to develop education programs that inform off-grid populations currently dependent on costly, inefficient and hazardous fuel-based lighting about modern alternatives.
Cecile used to spend ＄3-4 a month on kerosene for her lamp. That is a large proportion of her earnings—like 70 percent of the population she lives on
A. to exchange
B. to destroy
C. to invent
D. to copy
[简答题]European countries are buffeted by two global forces: One is climate change. The other is demography. Both prevalent pressures silently transform societies and the assumptions of public policy.
The two have a lot in common. Both are easily recognized but less easily understood. Both are products of complex forces and unobtrusive influences. Both create huge effects from minuscule changes. A rise in global temperature by one degree or a fall in fertility by one point may sound trivial but, over 100 years, will make the earth unbearably hot, or reshape the size and composition of societies.
Yet though every rich country has a climate-change policy, few have a population one (there are historical reasons for that). And just as everyone whinges about the weather, but does nothing about it, so everyone in Europe complains, but does nothing, about population.
Received opinion holds that "demography is destiny" and that Europe is doomed by its death-spiral population numbers. Amer
[填空题]These countries aim to exploit two contradictory facts: information can now be stored anywhere, but energy is most efficiently consumed close to the source. ______ Internet Villages International has joined up with Atlantis Resources, an engineer of ocean turbines, to develop technology that could power local data centers with energy from Scotland ’s rugged seas Another company, Lockerbie Data Centres, is planning a green home and business communitycentered on a clean -energy data facility that runs on wind farms and a biomass plant.
- A. Thus several Scottish IT developers are now planning nearly $ 3 billion in green datacenters that tap into Scotland’s clean - electricity grid, 20 percent of which comes from renewables like wind.
- B. Google disputes this number, but there’s little doubt the IT industry is becoming one of the biggest contributors to global warming.
- C. Iceland, struggling to recover from the financial crisis, may he even better poised to become a gr
[填空题]Which two countries will he visit
[单项选择]Trade relationships between the two countries will improve if their（）leaders could agree on the proposed quotas.
A. respectable
B. respective
C. respectful
D. respecting
