1. (2023高二下·海林月考)  阅读理解 

Imagine driving behind a huge truck shooting clouds of smoke into the air while your new fully electric vehicle cleans up its carbon emissions. This dream may soon be a reality. A team of students in the Netherlands has created an electric car that not only doesn't produce carbon dioxide when driving, but actually pulls it out of the air.

The two-seater sports car was designed and built in less than a year by a team of 32 students at Eindhoven University of Technology. Called "ZEM", which stands for "zero emission mobility", the car is equipped with special devices that remove carbon dioxide from the air as it drives. The team says if ZEM is driven about 32,000 kilometers, it can remove 2 kilograms of carbon dioxide from the air. That's not a huge amount. The team calculates that 10 ZEM cars on the road for a year would remove as much carbon dioxide as a typical tree does during that time. However, they also point out that there are over a billion passenger cars in the world that could be using this technology. And if a billion cars were removing carbon dioxide instead of producing it, the result would be huge.

ZEM also has several other innovations that help to make it more capable of being sustained: the car's frame and panels (面板) are 3D printed to reduce waste; it was built using recycled and recyclable materials; and it can be easily taken apart so that many of its parts can be reused. ZEM's battery is also reusable, and has another handy feature: it can be charged with solar panels on the car's roof—and can even be used to provide power to your house when the car isn't on the road.

 According to the statistics, transportation was responsible for over 20% of global carbon dioxide emissions in 2020—and of those emissions, cars were responsible for 41%. The Eindhoven team says its goal is to challenge the electric car industry: If 32 students can build a car like this in less than a year, then surely car manufacturers (生产商) are expected to adopt these innovations, too.  

1. （1） What is special about ZEM? 

   A . It can end the world's CO₂ release. B . It can raise the truck's CO₂ emissions. C . It can reduce the level of CO₂ in the air. D . It can absorb dirty air as well as CO.
3. （2） Why does the team run the calculation of ZEM in paragraph 2?  

   A . To demonstrate a wonderful vision of ZEM cars. B . To explain how ZEM removes CO2 as trees do. C . To illustrate the ongoing change in car making. D . To show the influence of ZEM on the car market.
5. （3） What do we know about all the components of ZEM? 

   A . They are of high quality. B . They are easy to process. C . They are convenient to print. D . They are environmentally friendly.
7. （4） What does the Eindhoven team hope to achieve in the future? 

   A . Sharp decline in fuel consumption. B . Mass production of ZEM cars. C . Big success in beating other car makers. D . Dramatic changes in transportation.