Q1. Read the following Passage and answer the following Questions:-(10)
US President Barack Obama's energy plan calls for higher efficiency standards for cars as well as greater use
of ethanol. It aims to cut US oil demand by about four million barrels a day. That's equal to the combined oil
consumption of France and Canada and would knock the bottom off the world oil market. That has to be a good
thing in a world of energy shortages, even though a study conducted at Stanford's Woods Institute for the
Environment claims that reliance on biofuels is not a good strategy. If Obama's new energy plan takes off, it
would promote interest in research and development of clean, alternative energy options like those of wind,
water, solar and hydrogen resources as well as develop hybrid vehicles. It would find ways of making crop-based
biofuels viable. Oil's long-term costs, which include reliance on oilfields in geopolitically unstable parts of the
world, would make it a far more expensive choice, besides its negative impacts on the environment and health.
It might be that presently America's ethanol-form-corn projects consume a great deal of energy and have driven
upward the price of food crops on account of farmland diversion.B ut there are success stories in other places.
In Brazil, sugarcane ethanol has reduced the country's dependence on fossil fuels and cleaned up the transport
industry. Moreover, sugarcane cultivated for ethanol here is grown in the south, far away from the Amazonian
rainforests. Therefore, a region-specific cost-benefit analysis of crop-based fuels would reveal what kind of crops
are most suitable for use as fuel to supplement the world's energy requirements in a manner tha is beneficial to
all.
A fall in US petrol demand will have a positive global impact since is the world's largest importer of petrol. The
new administration's thrust on clean energy and scaling down of petrol consumption could well set the pace for
a future where oil would no longer dominate geopolitics.
Complete the following sentences. Write your answer in the answer sheet:
1. President Obama's energy plan is aimed......Curt.......
2. A study at Stanford's woods university claims................
3. Obama's new energy plan could find..............,
4. America's ethanol from corn has driven. Ukiwand
5. In Brazil, sugarcane ethanol has reduced.........
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1 . to curt US oil demanded by about four million barrels a day .
2. that reliance on biofuels is not a good strategy .
3. ways of making crop based biofuels viable .
4. consume a great deal of energy and have driven upward the price of food crops on account of farm land diversion .
5. the country's dependence on fossil fuels and cleaned up the transport industry .
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