我们继续来看第二道考题。“New sourcesof energy must be found, and this will take time, but it is not likely to resultin any situation that will ever restore that sense of cheap and plentifulenergy we have had in the times past。”这句话中出现了“Newsources of energy”，能源危机出现了，如果想解决危机，那么必须就要寻找新能源来缓解危机，所以文章出现“新能源”的字眼顺理成章，合乎逻辑，那么翻译起来就会更加容易了。

文章第三个题目“The food supplywill not increase nearly enough to match this, which means that we are headinginto a crisis in the matter of producing and marketing food。”句中的中心词是“food supply”，如果出现能源危机，那么生产粮食所需要的能源也减少，随之粮食产量不足，供给矛盾激化，进而造成生产和销售粮食的危机。粮食供给与能源危机紧紧相连，理解了背景与题目的逻辑关系，将其译成中文也就不在话下了。

第四道题“This will beparticularly true since energy pinch will make it difficult to continueagriculture in the high-energy American fashion that makes it possible tocombine few farmers with high yields。”句中的“energy pinch”是“energy crisis”的同义词，即“能源匮乏”的意思，另外“high-energy”高耗能也和能源密切相关。