2011年理工类职称英语教材新增文章答案+翻译

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1、2011年理工类职称英语教材新增文章阅读理解新增文章（共6篇）目录：第二篇(C级)：WorldCrudeOilProductionMayPeakaDecadeEarlierThanSomePredict世界原油产量可能提前十年达到峰值第六篇(C级)：WeavingwithLight编织灯光第三十四篇(B级)：BatteriesBuiltbyViruses第三十八篇(B级)：LongerLivesforWildElephants野生大象寿命更长第四十五篇(A级)：SomePeopleDoNotTasteS

2、altLikeOthers咸度味感因人而异第四十六篇(A级)：MarvelousMetamaterials不可思议的超材料第二篇WorldCrudeOilProductionMayPeakaDecadeEarlierThanSomePredict　　Inafindingthatmayspeedeffortstoconserveoil，scientistsinKuwaitpredictthatworldconventionalcrudeoilproductionwillpeakin2014.Thispre

3、dictionisalmostadecadeearlierthansomeotherpredictions.TheirstudyisinACS’Energy&Fuels1.　　IbrahimNashawiandcolleaguespointoutthatrapidgrowthinglobaloilconsumptionhassparkedagrowinginterestinpredicting"peakoil"."Peakoil"isthepointwhereoilproductionreachesam

4、aximumandthendeclines.Scientistshavedevelopedseveralmodelstoforecastthispoint，andsomeputthedateat2020orlater.OneofthemostfamousforecastmodelsiscalledtheHubbertmodel2.Itassumesthatglobaloilproductionwillfollowabellshapedcurve3.Arelatedconceptisthat4of"Pea

5、kOil."Theterm"PeakOil"indicatesthemomentinwhichworldwideproductionwillpeak，afterwardstostartonirreversibledecline.　　TheHubbertmodelaccuratelypredictedthatoilproductionwouldpeakintheUnitedStatesin1970.Themodelhassincegainedinpopularityandhasbeenusedtofore

6、castoilproductionworldwide.　　However，recentstudiesshowthatthemodelisinsufficienttoaccountfor5morecomplexoilproductioncyclesofsomecountries.Thosecyclescanbeheavilyinfluencedbytechnologychanges，politics，andotherfactors，thescientistssay.　　Thenewstudydescrib

7、esdevelopmentofanewversionoftheHubbertmodelthatprovidesamorerealisticandaccurateoilproductionforecast.Usingthenewmodel，thescientistsevaluatedtheoilproductiontrendsof47majoroil-producingcountries，whichsupplymostoftheworld’sconventionalcrudeoil6.Theyestima

8、tedthatworldwideconventionalcrudeoilproductionwillpeakin2014，yearsearlierthananticipated.Thescientistsalsoshowedthattheworld’soilreserves7arebeingreducedatarateof2.1percentayear.Thenewmodelcouldhelpinformenergy-relateddeci