2019年知名外刊文章赏析(英语拓展阅读)
会计初级职称报名条件-
I
①
Mark
and
Sara
Borkowski
live
with
their
two
young
daughters
in
a
century-old,
fifteen-hundred-square-foot
house
in
Rutland,
Vermont.
②
Mark
drives
a
school
bus,
and
Sara
works
as
a
special teacher; the cost
of heating and cooling their house through the
year consumes a large fraction of their
combined income.
③
Last summer, however,
persuaded by Green Mountain Power, the main
electric utility in
Vermont, the
Borkowskis decided to give their
home
an energy makeover.
④
In the
course of several days,
coordinated
teams of contractors stuffed the house with new
insulation, put in a heat pump for the hot water,
and
installed
two
air-source
heat
pumps
to
warm
the
home.
⑤
They
also
switched
all
the
light
bulbs
to
L.E.D.s and put a small solar array on the slate
roof of the garage.
II
①
The
Borkowskis
paid
for
the
improvements,
but
the
utility
financed
the
charges
through
their
electric bill, which
fell the very first month.
②
Before the makeover, from
October of 2013 to January of 2014,
the
Borkowskis
used
thirty-four
hundred
and
eleven
kilowatt-hours
of
electricity
and
three
hundred
and
twenty-five gallons of fuel oil.
③
From October of 2014 to
January of 2015, they used twenty-eight hundred
and fifty-six kilowatt-hours of
electricity and no oil at all.
III
①
The
Borkowskis
’
house is not an
Aspen earth shelter made of adobe and old tires,
built by a former
software executive
who converted to
planetary
consciousness at
Burning
Man.
②
It
’
s
an
utterly
plain
house,
with Frozen
bedspreads and One Direction posters, inhabited by
a working-class family of four, two rabbits,
and
a parakeet named
Oliver.
③
It
sits
in
a
less
than
picturesque
neighborhood,
in
a
town
made
famous
in
recent years for its heroin problem.
④
Its significance lies in
its ordinariness.
IV
①
Most
of
the
technology
isn
’
t
particularly
exotic
—
these
days,
you
can
buy
a
solar
panel
or
an
air-source heat pump at
Lowe
’
s.
②
But few people do, because
the up-front costs are high and the options can
be intimidating.
③
If
the
makeover
was
coordinated
by
someone
you
trust,
however,
and
financed
through
your
electric
bill,
the
change
would
be
much
more
palatable.
④
The
energy
revolution,
instead
of
happening piecemeal, over decades,
could take place
fast enough
to actually
help an
overheating planet.
⑤
But all
of this would require the
utilities
—
the interface
between people and power
—
to
play a crucial role, or,
at least, to
get out of the way.
Power
to
the
People by
BILL
MCKIBBEN
【翻译】
马克和萨拉，以及他们的两
个女儿住在佛蒙特州，拉特兰一个
1500
平方英尺（约
140
平方米）的老房子里。
马克是校车司机
，
萨拉是一个兼职老师。
他们夫妇收入的一大部分都要花在这所
房子的取暖降温上面。
去年夏天，
在佛蒙特州的大品牌电业公司
，绿山能源的劝说下，他们决定给自家房屋来一次能源改装。短短几天时间，改装
承包人
为这所房子填充了隔热材料，安装了热水泵，以及两个制暖蒸汽泵。不仅如此，
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照明灯替换了所有的
白炽灯，车库的石板顶上还安上了一个小型太
阳能电池板。
改装的费用由他们支付，但绿山能源公司也会以
降低电费的方式对此进行资助，从能源改装后的第一个月开
始，他们就可以享受电费优惠
。改装之前，从
2013
年
10
月到
2014
年
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月，马克一家消耗了
3411
千瓦电量和
325
加仑燃油。改装后，从
2014
年
10
月到
2
015
年
1
月，他们用掉了
2856
千瓦电量，而消耗的
燃油数量则为
0.
马克一家的房屋可
不是那种由一个在火人节上皈依某种神秘力量的软件公司主管，突发奇想用土坯和旧轮胎
做成的阿斯彭土房子。它非常普通。装饰一般，工人阶级居住，养了两只兔子和一只名叫奥利弗的鹦鹉。周围也<
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不是风景如画，它所在的小镇只是最近几年因为毒品问题而出名。而它的伟大之处就在于它
的平凡。
家庭能源改装所需的大部分技术都是很普通的。你可
以很容易在劳氏商店买到太阳能板，或者蒸汽泵。但是
很少有人这么做，因为改装的前期
费用比较高，再加上有些人危言耸听，使很多人不敢轻易这么做。如果改装是
由你比较信
任的人协作完成，而你又可以获得电费上的优惠，那么一切都会变得容易多了。能源改革在过去的几