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I'm not clear on whether you wrote the passage or are trying to understand a textbook.

  1. Regarding cutting the field lines: if you imagine a conductor cutting through a plane of parallel field lines, there's no induced current. You need the magnetic flux (field strength * area of the conductor, to first approximation) to be changing in time.
  2. Either is fine. Strength of the field is probably the most common, but if you're thinking in terms of field lines doesn't work well. But I do recommend moving away from visualizing field lines eventually. "All models are wrong, but some are useful." Field lines are useful as an intro, but eventually become cumbersome.
  3. The conversion is 100% efficient, all of the lost kinetic energy becomes electrical energy (really, magnetic energy) in the inductor U=LI^2/2, ignoring resistance. And zero resistance of course leads to V=0. If you specify nonzero resistance it becomes more complicated, of course, as some energy is lost to heat as you push the inductor.
  4. Fair
  5. The bikes at the gym don't power the display by pedaling, since the display is on even when no one's using them. The generator in the bike is hooked up to a resistor to dump the energy you put in by pedaling into heat.

For a high school level E&M textbook in English, I had a great experience with Serway and Jewett. If you can follow calculus it's very comprehensible.

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