一篇讲电的价格影响用电,一屏 两段 有一点绕:
P1: consumption decisions is aligned with market prices and general welfare开头第一句大概这个意思. 比如用暖气thermostat的时候,人们不仅会根据自己的喜好调整温度高低,更会根据电费高低来决定使用多少。如果电费高的话,就把这个electricity resource留给有需要的人(其实表达就是少用一点的意思),如果电费便宜一点就会多用一点。这样的decisions还会影响到其他行业,consumption decisions will also affect the amount of aluminum produced and 另一个忘记了 好像也是electricity prices。
P2: 讲的是电费和aluminum的关系,有一点没搞懂。Aluminum production requires a lot of electricity. For companies that requires a lot of electricity for per ton of aluminum produced, costs will be higher than those need less. 最后一句结论是,因为这个影响了electricity prices, 所以even with no knowledge in electricity (prices), consumer will prefer the companies who need less resources in producing energy or those who produce more efficiently 之类的。
题目:
1. 作者会同意/主旨:consumption decisions reflect both personal preference and market prices (别的选项还有比如consumers会通过选择来推动cleaner energy等)
2. 高亮,第一段最后一句,consumption decisions 会影响什么,选项有aluminum demand(构筑选了这个,不确定,原文说的是produced说不定是supply,但好像其他的也不太合适)、electricity prices (反了吧,应该是电费影响用量)
3. 如果政府继续要解决一个water shortage,根据文章什么样的方法是最有效的:构筑选的是保持water prices correctly reflect the water quality and its corresponding amount available; 干扰项有使用禁令,用tax incentives来让公司们减少用水
题目:
1. 以前lack of credit score的人会怎么样:被deny loan
2. 有一题问main idea:data revolution allows creditors to reconize people that are trustworthy enough to repay loans but would otherwise be denied. (干扰项:现在credit score不如之前重要)
PS. verbal pace没控好最后几题有连错疑似掉库,但阅读模考一向比较稳(只错1-2)可供参考
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作文:
The chieft production manager of a machine parts manufacturing company presented the following in the company meeting:
Cookville is our most advanced and efficient production factory. It can produce 10 drill bits for every dollar of production cost, while none of our other factory can produce more than 7 drill bits for every dollar of production costs. (To reduce production costs costs, we should shift all drill bits production to Cookville.) And since reducing production costs for individual machine parts is the only way to reduce our overall production costs, dedicating Cookville to produce drill bits and switch production of others parts to other factories will allow the company the achieve the later larger goal.