问答题

As a bicycle kingdom gearing-up to become an automobile society, China, the world’’s third largest car manufacturing base, is facing a serious problem of automobile-related pollution and (47)______ levels of petrol (48)______. China already ranks third among the world’’s automobile manufacturing countries, with a voracious domestic demand that has sucked all major automobile manufacturers into the market. (49)______ from the State Environmental Protection Administration show that China will have 33 million automobiles by 2005 and over 131 million by 2020. As the market (50)______, so are serious pollution problems. Vehicles have become the biggest carbon monoxide (一氧化碳) and nitrogen oxide (氧化氮) emitters in big cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. In China’’s 14 largest cities, air pollution kills 50,000 newborn babies and causes 400,000 cases of respiratory (呼吸的) illness every year, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology. Not only do vehicles create (51)______ on the environment and human health, a growing automobile society also threatens to (52)______ China’’s oil resources. In 2000, vehicles in China consumed 65.6 million tons of oil, one-third of total demand. This expected to rise to 138 million tons annually by 2010 and (53)______ for 43 per cent of the nation’’s total oil demand. This figure projected to rise further to 256 million tons by 2020, accounting for 57 per cent of total demand. As a result, China will depend ever more heavily on oil (54)______ — since the country’’s domestic oil reserves are quite limited—the nation’’s energy security will be greatly (55)______. China’’s overall oil demand is (56)______ to be 450 million tons annually by 2020, with imports providing more than half. With overcrowded roads and worsening traffic jams, Chinese cities are urgently seeking solutions to the automobile pollution problem. Word Bank A) affected B) soaring C) overwhelm D) sufficient E) imports F) relationship G) statistics H) account I) stress J) forecasted K) sample L) explodes M) declining N) consumption O) leap