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28.Why is Nant de Drance called a"water battery"?A.It uses water to store energy.C.It pumps water from reservoirs.B.It is mainly powered by water.29.What does the system count on to pull the stored water down?D.It provides electricity for vehicles.A.Turbines.B.Gravity.30.What is the third paragraph mainly about?C.Tunnels.D.Electricity.A.The main function of Nant de Drance.B.The connection of the two reservoirs.C.The comments on the project.D.The difficulty in building Nant de Drance.31.What is the author's attitude towards Nant de Drance?A.Objective.B.Concerned.C.FavourableD.Doubtful.DIn 1547,the King of Spain sent a coded letter to his ambassador()in France.Now,after nearly 500 years,researchers have finally cracked()the code and can read the letter.Charles V was the king of Spain from 1516 to 1556.But his power went far beyond Spain.Asthe "Holy Roman Emperor",Charles V controlled lands across Europe.In spite of his greatpower,he had to manage many threats.At the time,many forces were competing to controlEurope,including powerful groups with different religious beliefs.Relations with otherleaders were tricky.Three years before the letter was written,Charles V had made a peace deal with KingFrancis I of France.But there was still a lot of information he didn't want to share with theKing of France.At the time,the only way to communicate across long distances was to sendletters.But letters weren't secure.They could easily be copied or stolen.So Charles V used acomplicated code to send information that needed to be kept secret.Cecile Pierrot,an expert in codes began to try to figure out what the letter said.Parts ofthe letter were written in ordinary French.But the coded parts were made up of about 120different symbols.The code was harder to crack than Ms.Pierrot expected.But as theresearchers studied the three-page letter,they began to notice some patterns.Some symbolsstood for just one letter.Others stood for several letters combined.And a few of the symbolsstood for whole words.Some symbols meant nothing at all and were only included to make thecode harder to break.Progress went faster once the team started working with historian Camille Desenclos.Sheshowed the team other coded letters sent to and from Charles V.On one of those letters,theperson who got the letter had written out what the coded part of his letter meant.Some of thesymbols on that letter were the same as the code the researchers were working on.Finding theletter helped them break their code much more quickly."It was the key,"said Ms.Pierrot.There are hundreds of similar letters all over Europe.The discovery opens the door to evenmore history.32.What do we know about Charles V?A.He was a big threat to world peace.B.He was in power for about 40 years in Spain.C.He liked to play tricks on other leaders.D.He had a talent for writing coded letters.33.What does the second paragraph mainly focus on?A.Background information of Charles V's coded letter.B.Ways to communicate across long distances in Europe.C.The relationship between Charles V and King Francis I.D.The information Charles V wanted to convey in the letter.英语试题第5页（共8页）