【名师带你背单词】TED Talk精选《如何面对石油耗尽》Part1/3,曼拓教育微信公众号文章

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今天我们来看看这篇在PTE听力中常考的能源类文章。

Richard Sears: Planning for the end of oil （Part 1/3）

相关学科：新兴能源与可再生能源(renewable energy)

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http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_sears_planning_for_the_end_of_oil/transcript?language=en

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Donovan老师

下面带着对这些单词和短语的理解，尝试读一读下面的原文，看看是不是容易理解多了呢？

For the next few minutes we're going to talk about energy, and it's going to be a bit of a varied talk. I'll try to spin a story about energy, and oil's a convenient starting place. The talk will be broadly about energy, but oil's a good place to start. And one of the reasons is this is remarkable stuff. You take about eight or so carbon atoms, about 20 hydrogen atoms, you put them together in exactly the right way and you get this marvellous liquid: very energy-dense and very easy to refine into a number of very useful products and fuels. It's great stuff. Now, as far as it goes, there's a lot of oil out there in the world.

Here's my little pocket map of where it's all located. A bigger one for you to look at. But this is it, this is the oil in the world. Geologists have a pretty good idea of where the oil is. This is about 100 trillion gallons of crude oil still to be developed and produced in the world today. Now, that's just one story about oil, and we could end it there and say, "Well, oil's going to last forever because, well, there's just a lot of it." But there's actually more to the story than that. Oh, by the way, if you think you're very far from some of this oil, 1000 meters below where you're all sitting is one of the largest producing oil fields in the world. Come talk to me about it, I'll fill in some of the details if you want.

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