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1、2019年12月英语六级长篇阅读练习题 Section BDirections ： In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statementcontains information given in one of the paragraphs . Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived .You may choose a paragraph more than once .
2、 Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions bymarking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Daylight Saving Time (DST) How and When Did Daylight Saving Time Start?A. Benjamin Franklin-of "early to bed and early to rise” fame- was apparently the first person to suggest the
3、 concept of daylight savings . While serving as U. S. ambassador to France in Pads, Franklin wrote of being awakened at 6 a . m. and realizing, to his surprise, that the sun would rise far earlier than he usually did Imagine the resources that might be saved if he and others rose before noon and bur
4、ned less midnight oil, Franklin, tongue half in cheek, wrote to a newspaper .B. It wasn't until World War I that daylight savings were realized on a grand scale. Germany was the first state to adopt the time changes, to reduce artificial lighting and thereby save coal for the war effort . Friend
5、s and foes soon followed suit . In theU S. a federal law standardized the yearly start and end of daylight saving time in 1918-for the states that chose to observe it .C. During World War II the U . S. made daylight saving time mandatory （强制的）for the whole country, as a way to save wartime resources
6、 . Between February 9, 1942, and September 30, 1945, the government took it a step further . During this period daylight saving time was observed year-round, essentially making it the new standard time, if only for a few years . Many years later, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was enacted, mandating
7、a controversial month-long extension of daylight saving time, starting in 2007. Daylight Saving Time ： Energy Saver or Just Time Sucker?D. In recent years several studies have suggested that daylight saving time doesn't actually save energy-and might even result in a net loss Environmental econo
8、mist HendrikWolff, of the University of Washington, co- authored a paper that studied Australian power-use data when parts of the country extended daylight saving time for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and others did not. The researchers found that the practice reduced lighting and electricity consumptio
9、n in the evening but increased energy use in the now dark mornings- wiping out the evening gains. Thafs because the extra hourthat daylight saving time adds in the evening is a hotter hour . "So if people get home an hour earlier in a wanner house, they turn on their air conditioning/* the Univ
10、ersity of Washington's Wolff said .E. But other studies do show energy gains . In an October 2008 daylight saving time report to Congress, mandated by the same 2005 energy act that extended daylightsaving time, the U . S. Department of Energy asserted that springing forward does save energy . Ex
11、tended daylight saving time saved 1 . 3 terawatt （ 太瓦）hours of electricity . That figure suggests that daylight saving time reduces annualU. S. electricity consumption by 0.03 percent and overallenergy consumption by 0 . 02 percent . While those percentages seem small, they could represent significa
12、nt savings because of the nation's enormous total energy use.F. What's more, savings in some regions are apparently greater than in others. California, for instance, appears tobenefit most from daylight saving time-perhaps because its relatively mild weather encourages people to stay outdoor
13、s later . The Energy Department report found that daylight saving time resulted in an energy savings of one percent daily in the state .G. But Wolff, one of many scholars who contributed to the federal report, suggested that the numbers were subject to statistical variability （变化）and shouldn't b
14、e taken ashard facts . And daylight savings1 energy gains in theU. S. largely depend on your location in relation to the Mason-Dixon Line, Wolff said . "The North might be a slight winner, because the North doesn't have as much air conditioning/1 he said . "But the South is a definite
15、loserin terms of energy consumption . The South has more energy consumption under daylight saving . ”Daylight Saving Time ： Healthy or Harmful?H For decades advocates of daylight savings have argued that, energy savings or no, daylight saving time boosts health by encouraging active lifestyles-a claim Wolff and