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 production 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 requested.
The strife at Rio Rancho is the most intense the industry has faced. "I think it sensitized us, "
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.
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 production 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 requested.
The strife at Rio Rancho is the most intense the industry has faced. "I think it sensitized us, "
A. people in the West don’t drink water; they only drink whiskey
B. the West is in great shortage of water resources
C. whiskey is better than water for drinking
D. people in the West often fight after drinking whiskey
·You are the factory manager of a car company. You are waiting for urgently needed components from your purchasing department.
·Write a note to Mr Grayson, the Assistant Purchasing Manager:
·enquiring about the reason for the delay
·stating when the components are needed
·suggesting a meeting to discuss future deliveries.
·Write 40-50 words.
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M: Who do you work for
W: ABC Company.
M: They’re in the dress business, aren’t they
W: That’ s right. I’ m the secretary to the General Manager. What about you
M: I work for IBM.
W: So you’ re in computers.
M: Yes, I’ m a product manager.
W: What are you working on at the moment
M: I can’ t give you all the details, because it’ s a secret, But we are developing a new product for the Chinese market.
You can tell age of a tree by counting its rings. But these records of a tree’s life really say a lot more. Scientists are using tree rings to learn what’s been happening on the sun’s surface for the last ten thousand years. Each ring represents a year of growth. As the tree grows, it adds a layer to its trunk, taking up chemical elements from the air. By looking at elements in the rings from a certain year, scientists can what elements were in the air that year. Dr. Stevenson is analyzing one element, carbon-14, in rings from both living and dead trees. Some rings go back almost ten thousand years to the end of the Ice Age. When Stevenson followed the carbon-14 track back in time, he found carbon-14 levels changed with the intensity of solar buring. You see, the sun has cycles. Sometimes it burns fiercely, and at other times it’s relatively calm. During the sun’s violent periods, it throws off charged formation of carbon-14 on earth. When there is m
A. less
B. more
C. no
D. much
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