2013年职称英语《理工类A级》试题及答案6

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    第6部分：完形填空(第52~65题，每题1分，共15分)

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　　Better Solar Energy Systems: More Heat, More Light

　　Solar photovoltaic thermal energy systems, or PVTs, generate both heat and electricity, but until now they haven’t been very good at the heat-generating part compared to a stand-alone solar thermal collector. That’s because they operate at low temperatures to cool crystalline silicon solar cells, which lets the silicon generate more electricity but isn’t a very efficient way to gather heat.

　　That’s a problem of economics. Good solar hot-water systems can harvest much more energy than a solar-electric system at a substantially lower cost. And it’s also a space problem: photovoltaic cells can take up all the space on the roof, leaving little room for thermal applications.

　　In a pair of studies, Joshua Pearce, an associate professor of materials science and engineering, has devised a solution in the form of a better PVT made with a different kind of silicon. His research collaborators are Kunal Girotra from Thin Silicon in California and Michael Pathak and Stephen Harrison from Queen’s University, Canada.

　　Most solar panels are made with crystalline silicon, but you can also make solar cells out of amorphous silicon, commonly known as thin-film silicon. They don’t create as much electricity, but they are lighter, flexible, and cheaper. And, because they require much less silicon, they have a greener footprint. Unfortunately, thin-film silicon solar cells are vulnerable to some bad-news physics in the form of the Staebler-Wronski effect.

　　“That means that their efficiency drops when you expose them to light―pretty much the worst possible effect for a solar cell,” Pearce explains, which is one of the reasons thin-film solar panels make up only a small fraction of the market.

　　However, Pearce and his team found a way to engineer around the Staebler-Wronski effect by incorporating thin-film silicon in a new tyep of PVT. You don’t have to cool down thin-film silicon to make it work. In fact, Pearce’s group discovered that by heating it to solar-thermal operating temperatures, near the boiling point of water, they could make thicker cells that largely overcame the Staebler-Wronski effect. When they applied the thin-film silicon directly to a solar thermal energy collector, they also found that by baking the cell once a day, they boosted the solar cell’s electrical efficiency by over 10 percent.

　　51. A. unless B. until C. when D. if

　　52. A. which B. what C. that D. who

　　53. A. reward B. bill C. cost D. pay

　　54. A. take B. move C. set D. live

　　55. A. decision B. suggestion C. qualification D. solution

　　56. A. for B. as C. by D. with

　　57. A. retrieve B. require C. merge D. exchange

　　58. A. certainly B. luckily C. unfortunately D. immediately

　　59. A. cover B. expose C. relate D. face

　　60. A. restrictions B. advances C. strengths D. reasons

　　61. A. way B. part C. result D. subject

　　62. A. size B. type C. shape D. brand

　　63. A. area B. place C. point D. extent

　　64. A. promoted B. overcame C. improved D. assessed

　　65. A. defined B. wasted C. lowered D. boosted

　　答案：BACAD DBCBD ABCBD

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