SECTION III: READING (6.0 POINTS) Part 1. Questions 56 to 65 (2 points - 0.2/ each) Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question. When manfirst learned how to (56) _______ a fire, he began to use fuel for the first time. The first fuel he used was (57) ______ wood. As time (58) _______, man eventually discovered that substances such as coal and oil would burn. Coal was not used very widely as a source of energy (59) _____ the last century. With the coming of the ...

SECTION III: READING (6.0 POINTS)

Part 1. Questions 56 to 65 (2 points - 0.2/ each)

Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.

When manfirst learned how to (56) _______ a fire, he began to use fuel for the first time. The first fuel he used was (57) ______ wood. As time (58) _______, man eventually discovered that substances such as coal and oil would burn. Coal was not used very widely as a source of energy (59) _____ the last century. With the coming of the industrial revolution, it was (60) _______ realized that production would double if coal was used instead of wood. Nowadays, many (61) ______ huge factories and electricity (62) ______ stations would be unable to function if there was no coal.

In the last twenty or thirty years, however, the use of coal (63) _______ declined. As a result, there have been changes in the coal industry. It is believed that more people would use coal if oiland gas were not so readily (64) ________. There is more than enough coal in the world for man’s (65) ______ for the next two hundred years if our use of coal does not increase. Unfortunately, however, about half of the world’s coal may never be used. Mining much of it would be very expensive even it was possible to use new equipment.