These countries aim to exploit two contradictory facts: information can now be stored anywhere, but energy is most efficiently consumed close to the source. ______ Internet Villages International has joined up with Atlantis Resources, an engineer of ocean turbines, to develop technology that could power local data centers with energy from Scotland’s rugged seas. Another company, Lockerbie Data Centres, is planning a green home and business community centered on a clean-energy data facility that runs on wind farms and a biomass plant.

• A. Thus several Scottish IT developers arc now planning nearly $3 billion in green data centers that tap into Scotland’s clean-electricity grid, 20 percent of which comes from renewables like wind.
• B. Google disputes this number, but there’s little doubt the IT industry is becoming one of the biggest contributors to global warming.
• C. Iceland, struggling to recover from the financial crisis, may be even better poised to become a green data hub.
• D. In the U. S. , data centers now account for 1.5 percent of total electricity use, and that’s expected to double by 2011.
• E. And a handful of cold northern nations are now looking to attract a piece of the $110 billion global industry.
• F. Giant Internet companies are usually secretive about the size of their data centers and the energy they use, but Google says nine of its largest centers use at least 45 megawatts total, eight times the size of Verne Global’s metri

填空题That can be a good thing, with the Web serving as a kind of buffer zone (缓冲地带) for uncomfortable interaction. It’s easier to face rejection, there aren’t lulls in conversation or geographic boundaries-and social networking is like a window into the lives of potential mates. Say two people meet on Facebook, though a mutual friend, Immediately, they know whether the other person is single-without having to ask. ______ It’s all the details a person might encounter on a first or second date, without ever having to go on one. As David Yams, a recent graduate of Babson College, outside Boston, trots it: Facebook has taken the potentially awkward first stages of flirting and getting to know someone into the comfort of your own home. A. it’s easier to approach each other, to talk casually, to get to know one another and feel out romantic potential without ever having to truly put themselves out there.B. And you don’t even have to be on the computer to engage in it. C. They can see where that person grew up, their political interests, whether they’re looking for a relationship or only interested in hooking up. D. As the thinking went, if you had to go to the Web to find a mate, or break up with one, it must have meant you weren’t capable of attracting anyone in the real world.E. Now a relationship may still begin by locking eyes across a crowded bar, but instead of asking for a phone number, the next step almost surely involves a Facebook friendship offer.F. David Hein zinger, a 24-year-old new-media specialist in New York, recently asked a girl he met at a happy hour to dinner,

填空题To most, common sense means the ability to present sound, practical judgments on everyday affairs. To do this, one has to sweep aside extra ideas and get right to the core of what matters. ______ In conduction of meeting and dealing with industry reducing a complex problem to the simplest term is highly important.A. And 61 percent say that common sense was very important in contributing to their success.B. Besides common sense, there are many other factors that influence success: knowing your field, self-reliance, intelligence, the ability to get things done, leadership, creativity, relationships with others, and of course, luck.C. At the Gallop Organization we recently focused in depth on success, probing the attitudes of 1,500 prominent people selected at random from who’s who in America.D. A Texas oil and gas businessman puts it this way: The key ability for success is simplifying. E. If you develop these qualities, you’ll succeed.F. Another way to increase your store of common sense is to observe it in others, learning from their-and your own-mistakes.