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You wouldn't expect an Information Age company like Intel to get on the wrong side of environmentalists, but the company's recent 42 billion expansion at Rio Rancho, New Mexico, plunged the world's largest semiconductor maker into an age-old Western problem: water rights. Chip plants consume millions of gallons of water a day, mainly to wash microscopic dirt from the surface of chips. That's a problem in the dry West, where whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting about. During construction of the new 1.3 million-square-foot chip-making plant, which starts production this month, residents and activists complained that the company's expanding thirst would be too great a drain on local supplies. After weeks of public hearings, the state of New Mexico last year granted Intel 72% of the water it requested. The strife (冲突) at Rio Rancho is the most intense the industry has faced. "I think it sensitized (使敏感) us," says Howard High, spokesman for Intel. "We have a lot of efforts under way to try and minimize the amount of water we use." Current conservation efforts may not work for an industry that in North America is expected to double in size to $75 billion in sales in the next three years. The trend is to reuse treated wastewater from chip cleaning in places such as cooling towers and air-conditioning systems. Motorola employs such methods in Phoenix and Austin. Recycling water for chip cleaning is the most logical approach. But the technology to make ultra-pure water for such a closed-loop system is still too costly. New technologies could eventually take the water out of chip cleaning. One company, Radiance Services, a six-person start-up based in Bethesda, Maryland, holds patents for a new "dry cleaning" method. Using laser light and inert gas (惰性气体) to lift impurities from surfaces of a chip, Radiance claims its process can clean as effectively as the current water-based methods.【缺少答案，请补充】

Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of this passage?

What does the sentence "Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting about" imply?

What does "the company's expanding thirst" mean?

Which of the following methods of solving the water problem is NOT mentioned in the passage?【缺少答案，请补充】

One disadvantage of reusing treated wastewater is that ______.

The example of" Cadillac ad" is used to illustrate that ______.

It can be inferred from the third paragraph that______.

It is implied in the passage that ______.

The Americans are most commonly criticized for ______.

The American who says "Money talks"believes that______.

Although the term"global warming" has become increasingly familiar to the general public, a recent survey carried out by the Chinchila Institute for Environmental Studies clearly demonstrates that the full implications of the term are far from understood. As long as public awareness remains so low, the political measures required to deal with the potentially disastrous consequences are unlikely to come about. Over 80 percent of the people interviewed in the Chinchilla Survey were unable to indicate any of the effects of a worldwide rise in temperature. Even more disturbing was the very small proportion of people interviewed (7.4 percent) who felt that their lives would be directly affected by global warming during the next 20 years. This indifference is in sharp contrast to the concerns voiced by the team of professionals who conducted the Survey. Team leader Professor Ernest Wong stated that we should all expect to experience significant lifestyle changes as a result of the effects of global warming. In detailing the likely effects, Professor Wong emphasized that the climatic changes caused by a rise in global temperature of only 1℃ would result in enormous changes. Primary among these changes would be the rise in sea level as a result of the melting of the polar icecaps. The consequent 30 centimeter rise in sea levels would have disastrous consequences for low-lying coastal areas. The very existence of countries such as Bangladesh (孟加拉国) would be threatened. Indeed, few coastal cities would entirely escape severe flooding and damage. Although considerable debate surrounds the accuracy of Professor Wong's predictions, those who share his pessimistic prediction insist that governments must respond to this challenge by investing in coastal defense. Even inland areas will not be able to avoid the consequences of global warming. Changes in the rainfall pattern are likely to result in flooding and desertification (沙漠化), both of which will influence agriculture throughout the world. In a recent interview, Professor Wong illustrated these points with dramatic effect. Chinchilla itself, a medium-sized provincial city at the centre of one of the country's major growing areas, he claimed, would be profoundly affected. Although, given its height and inland location, the city would not suffer from coastal flooding, the possible reduction in the rainfall would endanger the region's economy. In concluding his interview, Professor Wong left his audience in no doubt about the urgency of the problem. "Unless we plan for the future, we will not see the necessary mobilization of forces at local, regional, national, and international level that are essential to face this issue --- the issue of the 21st century.【缺少答案，请补充】

Who is well aware of the consequences of global warming?

Global warming would affect ______.

Professor Wong called for______.

It seems that ______ will not suffer as a result of global warming

The best title for this passage would be ______.

Paul Straussmann, retired vice president of Xerox, indicates in his book Information Payoff that "almost half of the U. S. information workers are ... in executive, managerial, administrative, and professional positions." He further states that "managers and professionals spend more than half of their time in communicating with each other." In other words, people are a corporation's most expensive resource. For a typical office, over 90 percent of the operating budget is for salaries, benefits, and overhead (经常性开支). With this investment, is it any wonder that managers are focusing more and more attention on employee productivity? They realize that the paper jungle cannot be tamed simply by hiring more people. To receive a return on their investment, wise corporate executive officers are recognizing what industrialists and agriculturalists learned long ago --- efficient tools are essential for increased productivity. A direct relationship exists between efficient flow of information and the quality and speed of the output of the end product. For those companies using technology, the per document cost of information processing is only a fraction of what it was a few years ago. The decreasing cost of computers and peripherals (电脑外部设备) will continue to make technology a cost-effective (划算的) tool in the future. An example of this type of savings is illustrated in the case of the Western Division of General Telephone and Electronics Company (GTE). By making a one-time investment of $$10 million to automate its facilities, management estimates an annual saving of $$8.5 million for the company. This savings is realized mainly through the elimination of support people once needed for proposal projects. Through a telecommunications network that supports 150 computer terminals with good graphics capabilities, the engineers who conceptualize the projects are now direct participants. They use the graphics capabilities of the computer rather than rely on drafters to prepare drawings, they enter their own text rather than employ typists; and they use the network to track project progress rather than conduct meetings.【缺少答案，请补充】

In the first paragraph, the author quotes Strausmann's words in order to make clear______.

Today's corporate executive officers resemble the industrialists and agriculturists in the past in their realization of ______.