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A World without Oil （假如世界沒有石油）

1. Have you ever stopped to think how your life would change if the world ran out of oil? Take a look at your day. The roof of your home is probably made waterproof by an oil product, bitumen. The same product is used for the road surface outside your home. Before you leave to go to work or school, just examine your surroundings. Is the room warmer than the cold air outside? Oil, or electricity from oil-fed generators may be keeping you comfortably warm. If you are comfortably cool in a tropical climate, your air conditioning unit may also depend on oil-fed generators.

1、你曾想過沒有，如果世界上用盡了石油，你的生活會發(fā)生什么樣變化呢？請看一看你的日常生活。你家的屋頂可能是用一種叫瀝青的石油產(chǎn)品做成防水的。瀝青同樣可用來鋪你家外面的路面。在你離家去上班或上學之前，請觀察一下你周圍的環(huán)境。房間里會比外面冷空氣暖和嗎？這是石油或由燃油發(fā)電機發(fā)出來的電使你感到舒適溫暖。如果你在炎熱的氣候里感到舒適涼爽，那么你家的空調(diào)器可能也是靠燃油發(fā)電機工作的。

2. In the kitchen and the bathroom you will probably see some plastic fittings such as tiles and working surfaces; polystyrene cups; curtains made from synthetic materials; disinfectants and detergents. All owe their origin to the oil known as petroleum (Latin/Greek 'petra', rock, and Latin 'oleum', oil), found deep in the earth. Look inside the medicine cupboard for more petroleum products, medical paraffin and petroleum jelly. Cosmetics such as face creams, lipsticks and hair preparations are often based on petroleum.

2、在廚房和浴室里你可能看到一些塑料器具，如塑料地板和塑料操作臺面、聚苯乙烯杯子、合成材料的浴簾、消毒劑和去污劑。所有這些都是來自稱為“Petroleum”的石油。“Petroleum”（石油）是（由拉丁或希臘文"petro"(巖石)和拉丁文"oleum"(油)組成），深埋在地下。向藥廚里看看，你可以找到更多的石油產(chǎn)品，如藥用石蠟和凡士林?；瘖y品如雪花膏、唇膏、洗發(fā)劑等，常用石油作為基本原料。

3. When you're out, notice the fields and gardens. Fertilizers and insecticides made from petroleum can improve crop production. Recently protein feeds for animals have been developed by growing yeast in a petroleum based stock. As you head for your bus, train or car, all of which use petroleum products in the form of fuel to move them and lubricants to keep them in working order, take a look in the mirror. What are you wearing today? A polyester shirt or dress, nylon socks or stockings, and acrylic sweater-a raincoat of PVC (polyvinyl chloride)? All of these are based on petroleum products.

3、當外出時你會看到農(nóng)田和花園?；屎蜌⑾x劑是由石油制取的，可以使農(nóng)作物增產(chǎn)。最近已經(jīng)研制出一種動物食用的蛋白質(zhì)飼料，它是用石油作為基本原料加上酵母而制成的。公共汽車、貨車或小轎車，都是靠石油產(chǎn)品作燃料開動的，用潤滑油保持這些車輛正常工作。當你去乘車之前要照一照鏡子?？纯唇裉齑┦裁匆路?？是化纖服裝（襯衫還是外套），是尼龍襪（短襪還是長襪），晴綸毛衣還是塑料雨衣？而所有這些都是用石油產(chǎn)品作原料的。

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