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  3. "If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will," Barack Obama said last month in his state-of-the-union speec

"If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will," Barack Obama said last month in his state-of-the-union speec

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问题     "If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will," Barack Obama said last month in his state-of-the-union speech. "I will direct my cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy." This week Mr. Obama named the officials charged with fulfilling that directive: Gina McCarthy, his choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, and Ernest Moniz, the prospective new secretary of energy. Their selection suggests that Mr. Obama is indeed serious about tackling climate change, but not doctrinaire in his approach.
    Ms Mc Carthy already works at the EPA, where she is in charge of air quality. That has given her a leading role drafting the administration’s most ambitious and controversial environmental rules, including limits on emissions of greenhouse gases for new power plants and strict fuel-efficiency requirements for cars. She is the natural candidate to oversee the most obvious and consequential step Mr. Obama could take to stem global warming: a regulation curbing emissions from existing power plants.
    Republicans do not fancy that idea at all, and have introduced bills in Congress to strip the EPA of its regulatory authority over greenhouse gases. They often accused Lisa Jackson, the agency’s previous boss, of disregarding the cumulative impact of its many clean-air rules, and suffocating industry as a result.
    Yet Ms McCarthy makes an unlikely target. She has worked for Republican governors in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Industry groups mustered kind words about her nomination. As Mr. Obama put it," She’s earned a reputation as a straight-shooter."
What can we learn about Ms McCarthy from the last paragraph?
选项 A、Her goal cannot be achieved.
B、She was once a shooter in army.
C、She used to work against Republicans.
D、She won the support of the President.
答案D
解析 选项A对应最后一段第一句：Yet Ms McCarthy makes an unlikely target. 原文说McCarthy制定了不太可能完成的目标，而非她的目标不可能完成。其中“unlikely”并不等于“cannot”，故选项A错误。选项B是对最后一句“She’s earned a reputation as a straight-shooter”的曲解，straight-shooter指的是“心直口快之人”，而非该项说的射手、枪手。选项C与原文第二句“She has worked for Republican governors…”相反，故错误。文章开头第一段就提到：This week Mr. Obama named the officials charged with fulfilling that directive：Gina McCarthy...也就是说McCarthy是总统任命的，自然得到总统支持，故选项D正确。
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