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Obama’s Energy Policy While the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that prompted the president’s speech is an unprecedented catastrophe
Obama’s Energy Policy While the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that prompted the president’s speech is an unprecedented catastrophe
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2018-06-29
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Obama’s Energy Policy
While the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that prompted the president’s speech is an unprecedented catastrophe, it’s nothing compared to what’s ahead if we keep pretending that fossil fuels are cheap. Addressing our habits of carbon consumption isn’t just the most important possible response to this particular disaster. It’s probably the most important issue this president, or any other for the next few decades, will face. Moreover, there’s a fairly clear solution that’s already been outlined: at the moment, there’s an implicit public subsidy for carbon use that enables our reliance, so the government needs to compensate for it by jack up the price of energy somehow. A cap-and-trade system is the preferred method here in much the same way that an insurance mandate was in healthcare reform: it’s a politically palatable partial measure, but far better than nothing.
But Obama gave a lame speech by only offering vague generalities about " increasing the cost of energy," failing to lay out the case for the reform that he knows perfectly well to be the only viable one. In fact, if the president decided to take the idea of energy reform to the people, he probably still wouldn’t get legislation passed. But even in failure, there’s something to be gained from speaking clearly and honestly to the public.
Woodrow Wilson was a generally pretty detestable guy, but there’s something Obama could learn from him. At the end of World War I, Wilson expended massive, futile effort trying to convince Americans that the League of Nations was the world’s only hope for peace and stability. The Republicans who opposed Wilson over the League succeeded, in large part, because a weary country wasn’t willing to accept an intellectual president’s high-flown scheme to prevent the recent disaster from repeating.
When the feeble League failed and the crisis of the 1930s developed into World War II, it offered a kind of perverse validation to Wilson’s effort. By forcefully campaigning for the United States to take a central role in global stability, he had elucidated the choices facing the American people. After World War II, the argument of 1919 reoccurred, but it was won by Wilson’s successor, Harry Truman. The reoccurrence of global war had validated Wilson’s argument, making it much easier for Truman to sell Americans on the Marshall Plan, NATO, the United Nations and, ultimately, the Cold War itself. By being ambitious and clear, Wilson lost, but his side won out in the long term for the same reason.
The purpose of this passage is to______.
选项
A、criticize Obama for his powerlessness
B、advice Obama to advocate his energy reform
C、advice Obama to learn from his predecessors
D、advice Obama to take responsibility for the oil spill
答案
B
解析
主旨归纳题型,答案是B。本题考查文章主旨,需理清全文脉络并在此基础上归纳总结。从本文结构看,第一段介绍事由,第二段阐明观点,第三、四段以例子佐证,故应聚焦第二段把握主旨。第二段可分为两层意思,第一层指出奥巴马演讲谈及能源改革时的遮掩姿态,第二层建议奥巴马开诚布公对民众阐明其能源政策。在四个选项中,A属于片面归纳,虽作者认为奥巴马施政有不足之处,但其立足点却是以建设性姿态建言献策;C属于部分归纳,仅适用于第三、四段而非全篇;D属于错误归纳,此观点文中自始至终并未出现,属无中生有;B归纳层次适宜,为正确选项。本题核心:找准主旨段,以正确、全面、合宜三原则逐一考查选择项的归纳层次。
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