SOURCES OF ENERGYPRACTICE TEST 1A. PHONETICSI. PICK OUT THE WORD WHOSE...

35. Could you please turn cff the radio? A. Would you feel pleased to use this radio? B. There wiil be pleasing news on the radio. C. Please turn off the radio. D. Would you mind turning on the radio?C. READINGI. Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage: When man first learned how to make a fire, he began to use fuel for the first time. The first fuel he used was probably wood. As time (36)...man eventually discovered that substances such as coal and oil (37)... . Coal (38)... very widely as a source of energy until the last century. With the coming of the industrial revolution, it was soon realized that production (39)...if coal was used instead of wood. Nowadays, many of the huge factories and electricity generating stations (40)... unable to function if there was no coal. In the last twenty or thirty years, however, the use of coal (41)... As a result, there have been changes in the coal industry, it (42)... that more people (43)...coal if oil and gas were not so readily available. There is more than enough coal jn the world for man's needs for the next two hundred years if our use of coal (44)... increase. Unfortunately, however, about half of the world's coal (45)...Mining much of it would be very expensive even ifit was possible to use new equipment.