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The energy crisis, which is being felt around the world, has dramatized how the careless use of the earth’s resources has brough

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问题     The energy crisis, which is being felt around the world, has dramatized how the careless use of the earth’s resources has brought the whole world to the brink of disaster. The overdevelopment of motor transport, with its increase of more cars, more highways, more pollution, more suburbs, more commuting, has contributed to the near-destruction of our cities, the breakup of the family, and the pollution not only of local air but also of the earth’s atmosphere. The disaster has arrived in the form of the energy crisis.
    Our present situation is unlike war, revolution or depression. It is also unlike the great natural disasters of the past. Worldwide resources exploitation and energy use have brought us to a state where long-range planning is essential. What we need is not a continuation of our present serious state, which endangers the future of our country, our children, and our earth, but a movement forward to a new norm in order to work rapidly and effectively on planetary problems.
    This country has been falling back under the continuing exposures of loss morality and the revelation that lawbreaking has reached into the highest places in the land. There is a strong demand for moral revival and for some devotion that is vast enough and yet personal enough to enlist the devotion of all. In the past it has been only in a way in defense of their own country and their own ideals that any people have been able to devote themselves wholeheartedly.
    This is the first time that we have been asked to defend ourselves and what we hold dear in cooperation with all the other inhabitants of this planet, who share with us the same endangered air and the same endangered oceans. There is a common need to reassess our present course, to change that course and to devise new methods through which the world can survive. This is a priceless opportunity.
    To grasp it we need a widespread understanding of nature if the crisis confronting us--and the world--a crisis that is no passing inconvenience, no by-product of the ambitions of the oil- producing countries, no environmentalists’ mere fears, no by-product of any present system of government. What we face is the outcome of the invention of the last four hundred years. What we need is a transformed life style. This new life style can flow directly from science and technology, but its acceptance depends on a sincere devotion to finding a higher quality of life for the world’s children and future generation.  
Our cities were damaged by ______.
选项 A、pollution of local air
B、the breakup of the family
C、pollution of the earth’s atmosphere
D、the excessive growth of motors
答案D
解析 事实细节题。本题主要就文章第一段提出问题。第一段指出，能源危机表明，人肆无忌惮地使用地球资源已使世界处于灾难的边缘：现代交通运输的过度发展使城市濒临毁灭，使家庭解体、污染了城市的空气和大气层。所以导致城市濒临毁灭的正是交通工具的过度增长。所以正确答案应该是D。A项、B项和C项正是城市濒临毁灭的具体表现，不是导致城市毁灭的原因，所以不选。
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