Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each

blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully

before making your choices. E.ach choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding

letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the

WO�心in the bank more than once.

American colleges and universities are using 64 percent less coal than they did a decade ago, burning

700,000 tons last year, down from 2 million tons in 2008, the U.S. Energy Information Administration

(E因said in a report 26 yesterday.

All 57 schools that were burning coal in 2008 are using less now, and 20 have 27 coal completely,

EIA found.

Most universities have turned to natural gas as a 28 , with state fundirg backing the fuel switch.

While academic institutions use less than 0.1 percent of U.S. coal burned for power, campus coal use

has a history dating back to the 1800s when 29 to power was scarce.

Many universities still operate their own power plants .. The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of

1978 encouraged more electricity generation by allowing institutions to sell 30 power to utilities.

But E趴noted many coal-fired universities have signed onto the American College and University

Presidents Climate Commitment, which was launched in 2007.

About 665 schools are part of the program, which aims to 31 greenhouse gas emissions. Thirty

percent of the participants have pledged to be carbon 32 within 20 years.

The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, which also leads campaigns for universities to withdraw

their 33 in coal and other fossil fuels, lists 22 schools that have pledged to move "beyond coal,"

including Clemson University, Indiana University, Ohio University, PennState University, the University

of Louisville and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

The largest coal use 34 at colleges were in Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee and Indiana. Indiana's

universities alone cut coal 35 by 81 percent between 2008 and 2015.

During the same period, Michigan made an 80 percent cut and Tennessee cut back by 94 percent at

state institutions.

A) abandoned

B) access

C) consumption

D) contrive

E) duplications

F) investments

G) mobilized

H) negligent

Section B

D neutral

J) reductions

K) released

L) replacement

M) slash

N) surplus

0) void