湖北省黄冈市2013届高三4月份模拟考试英语试题及答案(8)

　　Of course， there is far more oil underground than can be recovered．Even given the best exploration techniques， only about 30 to 40 percent of the oil in a given pool can be brought to the surface．The rest is far too difficult to reach and has to remain underground．

　　63．Which of the following is true about petroleum formation？

　　A．Microscopic organisms that live in mud produce crude oil and natural gas．

　　B．Large amounts of oxygen are needed for petroleum formation to begin．

　　C．Petroleum is formed when organic material in sediments combines with decaying organisms．

　　D．Petroleum formation appears to begin in marine sediments where organic matter exists．

　　64．What does the development of the Alaskan oil field mentioned illustrate？

　　A．More petroleum is extracted from the sea than from land．

　　B．Drilling for oil requires huge financial investments．

　　C．The global demand for oil has been increasing over the years．

　　D．The North Slope of Alaska has substantial amounts of oil．

　　65．What does the author mainly intend to tell us in the passage？

　　A．The formation， processing and exploration of petroleum

　　B．The specific techniques involved in oil exploration．

　　C．The changing relationships between countries．

　　D．The future intense situation in oil product markets．

　　66．What can we infer from the passage？

　　A．Available exploration techniques serve our purpose of exploring oil very well．

　　B．More and more public regions will be further protected from being drilled in the future．

　　C．Countries may suffer from unpleasant relationships for respective benefits in exploring oil．

　　D．Powerful flows of oil is a phenomenon which can be witnessed rarely now．

　　E

　　The news that China bans time-travel TV dramas and movies got a lot of attention on the internet Yet， time travel in China is bit different from time travel in common sense．It is anything but science fiction and always goes backwards in time．There is minimum imagination involved-no ever-ending circles that mess up present and future， no advanced technology， no new social orders or new human forms from the twenty-whatever century， everything is a known historical fact when you travel through in China．

　　It is not even called time travel ; rather the Chinese people refer it as time crossover．Time crossover has been an extremely popular theme for online novels for years （in fact ， it is an indispensible part of China’s online culture）， and didn’t get picked up by TV and the big screen until recent two years．Most of time—travel dramas and movies are adapted from popular online novels and like in other cases adaptations are never better than the original books．