【正文】 include _____________(5), literary figures and such overseas politicians as American President Bill Clint on and former Pakistani _____________(6) Benazir Bhutto. Fewer positions _____________(7) are grander than being head of an Oxford college. Usually the post _____________(8) of diplomat, administrator and academic. As Sir Roger Bannister, former Master of Pembroke College, put it :“ _____________(9) was a new challenge. You have to recognize _____________(10) of the students and you have to help _____________(11). The threeyear period students spend at Oxford is the most important of their lives。s going to write some poems herself. (B) She will have some poems published. (C) She wants to use poems which are already published. (D) She wants the children to write poems. 5. (A) Only the man is pleased. (B) Only the woman is pleased. (C) Both of them are pleased. (D) Neither of them is pleased. Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news. 6. (A) The digging of a major tunnel was slowing down. (B) A water supply project failed because of unexpected difficulties. (C) Eight people were killed in a train accident. (D) A helicopter was reported missing. 7. (A) To go on providing humanitarian aid. (B) To increase the food supply. (C) To revise the oilforfood programme. (D) To lift the embargo on his country. 8. (A) To cut down on the US military presence in Europe. (B) To increase the European Union39。ve insulated the attic, installed tripleglazed windows, and bought highefficiency appliances. Can you make your home any more ecofriendly? For an increasing number of Americans, the answer is yes. You can let nature help cut your utility bill. It may be as simple as replacing outdoor lights with solarpowered fixtures or signing up for your unility39。t cut your ties to the local utility just yet. But while renewable energy won39。re not all wholebran environmentalists. Rodman Montello runs a gas station here in Hebbronville, Texas. But when he wanted to bring electricity to his cabin eight miles out of town, he went solar. The reason was simple. The utility wanted $100， 000 to extend its electric line to his cabin. Mr. Montalvo paid less than $8,000 for his solar system. “ It39。s a new focus on renewables,” says Thomas White, chairman and chief executive of Enron Renewable Corporation, which has pleted the world’s largest wind farm in Minnesota. “ My feeling is that we are at the point in time where the personal puter was in the late70s,adds Mac Moore, director of business development for BP Solar, one of the largest manufacturers and marketers of solar electric systems in the world. “ Over the next 10 years, if things go well, there going to be a revolutionary change in the way that we obtain power.” Wind power represents an even more pelling argument for remote homeowners. Turbines have bee so much more efficient over the past decade that homeowners a quartermile from a utility line may find it cheaper to put up a wind turbine than to pay the utility to extend its service. But for most consumers, barriers remain. For one thing, renewable energy systems are expensive to install and require more than a decade before consumers see a payback. Even a good deal on solar panels in a highsun area would still cost a typical homeowner 30 to 40 cents a kilowatthour for electricity, estimates Bob Johnson, industry analyst with Strategies Unlimited, a technologyresearch firm in Mountain View, Calif. That s far above the six to 15 cents that Americans typically pay their local utility, he adds. Smallscale wind turbines are much more petitiveanywhere from 8 to 15 cents a kilowatthour, says Mike Bergey, president of Bergey Windpower in Norman, Okla. But they still require a $30,000 to $35,000 investment up front and it would take most homeowners 15 to 20 years before they39。s 點(diǎn)點(diǎn)英語 —— 專業(yè)致力于四六級(jí)、考研和口譯口語 5 no guarantee homeowners can store enough energy to run their homes when the sun isn39。s aesthetics. Will the neighbors accept those solar panels on your roof? Do you want a 100foothigh wind turbine humming in your backyard like a muffled helicopter? That39。70s. (B) A great change in renewable energy technology will occur quite soon. (C) The “ green power” program and the development of personal puter are of equal significance. (D) Solar energy will replace all other energies in about ten years39。s highly advertised free Web site was jammed into nonfunctioning. The stories were of some 10 million hits a day clogging the site, . britannica. 。 of promises to get the thing up and running, perhaps as early as this week. More striking, though, is what the stories didn39。d only sign up for Compton39。s all free— or will be as soon as Britannica works out the bugs. The reason it39。s modest book collection formed the nucleus of the Library of Congress. Not only does my own house now contain more books than Jefferson ever owned, but my access to public libraries, bookstores and, of course, the Web, gives my family information resources beyond the imagination of worldclass scholars a short time ago. I39。s downloaded 75 to 100 pages of information, from a score of sites, on that West African country— information on everything from the local currency, political situation and weather to the latest local news and the street address of the American embassy. “ I39。ve never been there,” she said. Marco Polo, eat your heart out. Nor is it just information that is so profusely available. Think of the difficulties confronting a 19thcentury music lover. He could, of course, hear local folk artists. But if he had a fondness for, say, Bach or Beethoven, he39。d have to be wealthy. Today, any teenager with a CD player (or even an FM radio) can hear almost any music of his of her choosing, performed by top musicians, virtually at will. The same y