Universidad del valle (Sede yumbo)

Lectura de textos académicos II

Mg. Marco Antonio Aristizabal (1st midterm)

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Developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory and ExxonMobil, the new technique uses a highly porous material called a metal-organic
framework, or MOF, modified with nitrogen-containing amine molecules to capture the CO 2 and low
temperature steam to flush out the CO2 for other uses or to sequester it underground.
In experiments, the technique showed a six times greater capacity for removing CO 2 from flue gas
than current amine-based technology, and it was highly selective, capturing more than 90% of the
CO2 emitted. The process uses low temperature steam to regenerate the MOF for repeated use,
meaning less energy is required for carbon capture.
"For CO2 capture, steam stripping -- where you use direct contact with steam to take off the CO 2 --
has been a sort of holy grail for the field. It is rightly seen as the cheapest way to do it," said senior
researcher Jeffrey Long, UC Berkeley professor of chemistry and of chemical and biomolecular
engineering and senior faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab. "These materials, at least from the
experiments we have done so far, look very promising."
Because there's little market for most captured CO2, power plants would likely pump most of it back
into the ground, or sequester it, where it would ideally turn into rock. The cost of scrubbing the
emissions would have to be facilitated by government policies, such as carbon trading or a carbon
tax, to incentivize CO2 capture and sequestration, something many countries have already
implemented.
The work was funded by ExxonMobil, which is working with both the Berkeley group and Long's
start-up, Mosaic Materials Inc., to develop, scale up and test processes for stripping CO 2 from
emissions.
Long is the senior author of a paper describing the new technique that will appear in the July 24
issue of the journal Science.
"We were able to take the initial discovery and, through research and testing, derive a material that
in lab experiments has shown the potential to not only capture CO 2 under the extreme conditions
present in flue gas emissions from natural gas power plants, but to do so with no loss in selectivity,"
said co-author Simon Weston, senior research associate and the project lead at ExxonMobil
Research and Engineering Co. "We have shown that these new materials can then be regenerated
with low-grade steam for repeated use, providing a pathway for a viable solution for carbon capture
at scale."
Carbon dioxide emissions by fossil fuel-burning vehicles, electricity generating plants and industry
account for an estimated 65% of the greenhouse gases driving climate change, which has already
increased Earth's average temperature by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) since the 19th
century. Without a decrease in these emissions, climate scientists predict ever hotter temperatures,
more erratic and violent storms, several feet of sea level rise and resulting droughts, floods, fires,
famine and conflict.
"In reality, of the kinds of things that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we need
to do to control global warming, CO2 capture is a huge part," Long said. "We don't have a use for
most of the CO2 that we need to stop emitting, but we have to do it."
Taken from: University of California - Berkeley. (2020, July 23). New technique to capture carbon
dioxide could greatly reduce power plant greenhouse gases: Tetraamine-modified MOFs remove
90% of CO2 more efficiently and cheaply. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 30, 2020 from
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200723143729.htm

Answer the following questions:

1. In the article, find some of the grammar tenses seen during the class (if you miss one of the
tenses, the question is not correct it)

2. Choose the best heading of the article:

a. A new technique using carbon to reduce gases
b. The role of Exxon Mobil in the global warming
3. In the article mentions that “the use of these new materials have shown negative results”
a. True
b. False
4. Why Long is mentioned in the article?

5. What is the idea of the first paragraph?

6. In the first paragraph, the word sequester is understood as:

a. To separate
b. To steal
c. To be free
7. Name of the consequences of the global warming, according to the text?

 Organize and complete the following sentences (to be in past tense)

8. Home/yesterday/at/she
9. Not/at home/morning/in the/the people/
10. Laptop/this/new
11. Friends/our/holidays/ on their
12. Player/uncle/soccer/George/my/a good

Conjugate and complete with negative form of the Verb to be (present)

13. (his/ name/what/real?)

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14. (not / cold/today.)

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15. (nice /people/and/Joseph/Bill?)

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 16. (she / at this/time/not / my wife/)
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17. (the students / hungry/today/really.)

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18. (again/why /late/ you /?)

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19. (Jackeline/ person/a beautiful?)

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 Use the correct tense (simple present or present continuous)

20. Look! Jane ………………………… (sing) again. She often …………………….. (sing) this song.
21. My father ………………………………(have) a lot of work to do every weekend.
22. The girls …………………………………….. (not / talk) now. All of them …………………………
(watch) a film.
23 …………………… you …………………….. (like) watching TV?
24. He …………………………………….. (usually / go) at 9:00 o’clock, but this morning he
………………………………….. (leave) home late.
25. I ……………………………………. (visit) my grandparents every Friday. My sister
………………………………………. (often / visit) them.
26. The boys …………………………………….. (swim) in the pool now but they
………………………………………… (usually / swim) in the sea.
27. She ……………………………….(write) a letter to her pen-friend at the moment.
28. They …………………………………….. (sometimes / have) lunch at work, but today they
…………………………………. (have) at a restaurant.
29. She can’t talk to you. She ………………………………………. (have) a shower.
30. “Where …………………………… Alex ……………………… (live)?“In France.”

 Use the correct tense (simple past or past progressive)

31. Sally …………………………… (eat) dinner last night when someone …………………..
(knock) on the door.
32. I began to study at seven last night. Fred …………………………… (come) at seventhirty. I
……………………………… (study) when Fred ……………………….. (come).
33. While I ………………………………. (study) last night, Fred …………………………… (drop
by) to visit me.
34. My roommate’s parents …………………………………. (call) him last night while we
…………………………………….. (watch) TV.
35. My mother called me around five. My husband came home a little after five. When he
……………………………….. (come) home, I ………………………………….. (talk) to my
mother on the phone.
36. Yesterday Tom and Janice ……………………… (go) to the zoo around one. They
………………………… (see) many kinds of animals. They stayed at the zoo for two hours.
While they …………………………… (walk) home, it …………….…….. (begin) to rain, so
they …………………………….. (stop) at a small café and …………………… (have) a cup of
coffee.
37. Yesterday afternoon I ………………………… (go) to visit the Parker family. When I
…………………….. (get) there around two o’clock, Mrs. Parker ………………….. (be) in the
yard. She ………………………………… (plant) flowers in her garden. Mr. Parker
……………………….. (be) in the garage. He ……………………………….. (work) on their
car. He …………………………….. (change) the oil.

Complete the following sentences using future plans.

 Use will or going to, in the following sentences having into account the intention of each
sentence

38.- When we get home, we ___________ (have) dinner.

39- I know they ___________ (feel) very happy if they win the match.

40- They’ve already decided on their next summer holiday. They ____________ (do) a tour
of Norway.

41- She thinks that the Take That concert __________ (be) really exciting.

42- “What are your plans for this evening?” I ________ (meet) my friends and then go to a
birthday party.

43- If you revise for the exam , I’m sure you ________ (get) a good result.

44- The weather forecast is good for the next few days. It _________ (be) very sunny.

45- I can’t come on the march tomorrow. I ___________ (look after) my cousins.

46- In the future, I think humans ___________ (wipe out) many different species.

47- He is buying some butter and eggs because he _________ (make) a cake later.

 Frase nominal: underline and identify the core of each sentence.

48. I hope to win the first prize.

49. Horses prefer living in dark stables.
50. Has anyone seen the little, green, parrot?
51. The football coach got very upset with his team.