Wind energy - 11

Multiple Choice

Every day you can see the wind blowing and watch all of that wasted energy just floating away. A lot of energy is thought to be (1) ... and all you need to use it are a few wind turbines!

• handy

• available

• convenient

• ready

Multiple Choice

Currently less than 1% of the Earth's energy needs are (2) ... by wind, with Denmark being the most wind-friendly producing 23% of its own energy needs from wind.

• supplied

• hardest

• distributed

• donated

Multiple Choice

The energy produced is totally clean and also one of the (3) ... around and it is able to produce (4) ... 18 times more energy than is consumed in its construction, (5) ... nuclear which is estimated at around five.

• easiet

  in average

  contrasted to

• selected

  by average

  matched to

• cheapest

  on average

  compared to

• most expensive

  to average

  added to

Multiple Choice

People are often worried about the look of wind farms but what they often forget is that the land can still (6) ... for farming, with only 1% of the space being taken up by the wind turbines.

• be using

• have used

• have been

• be used

Multiple Choice

One of the biggest (7) ... about wind turbines, is their effect on bats and birds. In Norway, nine out of ten sea eagles were killed by turbines.

• advanteges

• benefits

• prospects

• concerns

Multiple Choice

Bats too are a serious problem. Even the manufacturers of wind turbines are (8) ... concerned by the numbers of bats being killed, prompting ongoing research.

• deeply

• badly

• wrongly

• sadly