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| 文章出处：学生大考试站 发布时间：2005-10-12 |
med so impractical and foolish that onlookers called it “Drake’s Folly”. But when he had drilled down about 70 feet(21 meters), Drake struck oil. His well began to yield 20 barrels of crude oil a day.
News of Drake’s success brought oil prospectors to the scene. By the early 1860’s these wildcatters were drilling for “black gold” all over western Pennsylvania. The boom rivaled the California gold rush of 1848 in its excitement and Wild West atmosphere. And it brought far more wealth to the prospectors than any gold rush.
Crude oil could be refined into many products. For some years kerosene continued to be the principal one. It was sold in grocery stores and door-to-door. In the 1880’s and 1890’s refiners learned how to make other petroleum products such as waxes and lubricating oils. Petroleum was not then used to make gasoline or heatingoil.
26.What is the best title for the passage?
A) Oil Refining: A Historical Perspective
B) The California Gold Rush: Get Rich Quickly
C) Private Property: Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted
D) Kerosene Lamps: A Light in the Tunnel
27.It can be inferred form the passage that kerosene was preferable to whale oil because whale oil was too____.
A) expensive B) thick
C) hot D) polluted
28.According to the passage, many people initially thought that E. L. Drake had made a
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