A Battery’s Worst Nightmare(噩梦)Portable electronics that can be carried about easily are o

A Battery’s Worst Nightmare(噩梦)
Portable electronics that can be carried about easily are only as good as their batteries and, let’s face it, batteries aren’t very good, especially when pared with, say, petrol, which packs 100 times a battery’s energy into an equal space. That’s why a large group of mechanical engineers (centered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but with partners at other universities and panies) are hard at work in an effort to replace batteries with a tiny engine that runs on fuel. Imagine a battery-free life!When the fuel runs out in your laptop or mobile phone, you just fill up and go.
The engine, about the size of a ten-cent coin, starts with a bustion chamber (燃烧室) that burns hydrogen (氢). Its tiny parts are etched onto silicon wafers (硅片) in the same manner that puter parts are imprinted onto integrated circuits (集成电路). The first engine is made up of five wafers. And since these wafers could be produced in much the same way as puter chips, they could probably be produced quite cheaply.
But the devil in all this nice detail is efficiency(效率). Tiny engine parts don’t always behave like their scaled-up parts of the first engine. Something between the parts can slow down the work, according to Columbia University professor Luc Frechette, one of the engine’s designers. Extreme heat from the bustion chamber is also a problem, often leaking to other parts of the engine.
The scientists’ goal is to create an engine that will operate 10 times better than batteries do. Frechette says that a plete system, with all parts in place and working, will be set up in the next couple of years, but mercial models aren’t available until at least the end of the next ten years. 
【小题1】.
. According to the passage, the title suggests that     .A．batteries should be greatly improvedB．petrol will be used instead of batteriesC．the time of batteries will be gone foreverD．pollution caused by batteries must be prevented【小题2】.
What’s the meaning of the underlined word “devil” (In Paragraph 3)?A．Problem.　B．Advantage.　C．Invention.　D．Technique.【小题3】.
What can we infer from the passage?A．The new invention doesn’t need any fuel.B．The new engine has been produced in quantity.C．The new invention is much cheaper than the battery.D．The new engine needs to be improved before it’s on sale.【小题4】.
. What is the main purpose of this passage?A．To introduce a new invention to readers.B．To persuade readers not to use batteries.C．To show us how the new invention works.D．To declare when the engine will be on sale..C