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  3. Read the following text and decide which answer best fits each space. For questions 26~45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on y

Read the following text and decide which answer best fits each space. For questions 26~45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on y

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问题     Read the following text and decide which answer best fits each space.
    For questions 26~45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet
                            Nuclear Age
    The Oyster Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey opened when the Beatles were still together, and since 1969 its single 645MW boiling-water reactor has provided enough energy to power 600,000 homes annually. But the oldest nuclear plant in the U.S. will be retired a little【C1】______Last year its owner, Exelon. announced that it would【C2】______Oyster Creek in 2019, 10 years ahead of schedule. The reason: the【C3】______plant costs too much to keep running【C4】______.
    The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has focused new attention on the【C5】______future of the American atomic sector. But the U.S. nuclear industry was already facing a very【C6】______problem: its aging fleet of reactors. Nuclear plants were built with 40-year licenses that can theoretically be【C7】______to 60 or even 80 years. Half the country’s 104 reactors are more than 30 years old and【C8】______middle age. So far, 62 plants have been【C9】______20-year extensions, and 20 more have applications pending【C10】______like the one in Fukushima, the oldest plants in the U.S.
    【C11】______to have fewer safety measures. If regulators crack down, operators could【C12】______-as Exelon did with Oyster Creek — that upgrading is not worth the【C13】______and shut down the plants If no new nuclear plants are built to【C14】______them, nuclear could fade into obsolescence.
    Ironically, that could have【C15】______environmental effects. A report by the Breakthrough Institute, an energy think tank, found that replacing all U.S. nuclear【C16】______a mix of coal and gas would raise carbon【C17】______9% by 2030. "We need to understand that there would be【C18】______to pulling back on nuclear," says Michael Levi, a senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations.【C19】______a great athlete, nuclear power may be【C20】______after it retires.
【C3】
选项 A、demanding
B、aging
C、promising
D、amazing
答案B
解析 全文是关于美国的核电站因为老化问题面临被关闭的命运并由此会引发的问题。所以“aging(年老的)”符合题意。
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