Not long ago, delivery giant UPS introduced new software to develop more efficient routes and help drivers avoid lefthand turns. Result: 28. 5 million fewer miles driven and 3 million gallons of gas saved each year. Efficiency gains for individuals have saved a lot of energy, too, Dr Laitner says. Email, instant messaging, and Internet news can help organize and streamline (使高效化) individual schedules. Ordering books or groceries online avoids extra trips to the shop. Transferring (转移) funds to a college student electronically avoids having them mailed. Telecommuting once or twice a week to work avoids gas burned and lessens traffic jams on the roads.
“Not long ago we had all these people running around saying that the Internet was going to gobble up all this power very quickly,” says researcher Jonathan Koomey at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “But their claims were greatly overestimated.”
4.ACEEE proves the viewpoint that “the Internet was gobbling up huge amounts of energy” is ________.
A. untrue B. acceptable
C. valuable
D. objective
答案:A 推断题。根据第一段中的“stands in sharp contrast to recent concerns that the computer based Internet was gobbling up huge amounts of energy”可知正确答案为A项。
5.We can conclude from the passage that in the US ________.
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