填空题Do Part Five of the Reading Test. Give yourself 10 minutes
to complete the task. ·Read this article about
lceland's energy resources. ·Write ONE word in each
gap. If there is a paradise for environmentalists, Iceland must
be it. It is the world's most energy efficient country, with 70% of its needs
covered by domestically produced renewables. The volcanic island and {{U}}
{{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}300000 inhabitants are blessed with natural hot
springs. All {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}the island's electricity
is produced cleanly—84% through hydropower, while the rest comes from geothermal
energy, using the heat from the earth. Fossil fuels are used
only for transport, but {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}here Iceland
is determined to get rid of them completely. In 1998, the government decided to
replace oil and gas {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}hydrogen as soon
as possible. Three years ago, it opened the world's first hydrogen station and
started a trial of three buses powered by hydrogen. But it was
{{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}always like this. Iceland used to be
a poor country that {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}to rely on
imports of fossil fuels for everything. That {{U}} {{U}} 7
{{/U}} {{/U}}until the 1973 oil shock, when OPEC countries quadrupled prices.
At that point Iceland started converting houses to geothermal heating, which is
very cheap and costs less {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}fossil
fuels. There have been attempts to export Iceland's green
riches abroad. Studies have been made on trying to send electricity through
cables to Scotland, but {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}the moment
it's not economical. If energy prices continue to go up and the price of the
technology comes down, {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}something
could be done about it. If exploited to the full, it is thought the energy could
supply all of the electricity of a country the size of Scotland.