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It’s 2:45 p. m. on a Wednesday, and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is in the backseat of a black Chevy Tahoe that’s inching its

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问题     It’s 2:45 p. m. on a Wednesday, and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is in the backseat of a black Chevy Tahoe that’s inching its way to city hall along the 101 freeway. This stretch of the often clogged road is eight lanes, but there are so many cars on it that everyone is moving at about 30 km/h, a single mass of steel and glass lurching toward downtown.
    Just a few hours earlier, Garcetti was traveling a lot faster. To get to an event in University Cit-y, about 16 km from his office, Garcetti took the city’s Red Line subway, which can reach speed of up to 110 km/h—a pace L. A. ’s rush-hour drivers can only dream about. Persuading more Angele-nos to take the train could go a long way toward solving one of L. A. ’s most intractable problems.
    " We don’t need people to completely give up their cars," he says while holding onto a pole on the Red Line. "But right now, we average 1. 1 people per car. If we could get that to 1.6, the traffic problem would go away. "
    In L. A. , cars are a source of smog, billions of dollars in lost productivity every year and endless frustration for residents. "Every working person plans their life around traffic in this town," say Zev Yaro-slavsky, a Los Angeles County supervisor and longtime friend of Garcetti’s. " Building a transportation infrastructure is something that needs to be focused on, and Eric gets that. " Should Garcetti, 43—who was elected in May as the youngest mayor of L. A. in more than a century—ever manage to get the freeways flowing, it would be a triumph. And it would only begin to cure what ails L. A.
    Los Angeles’ structural problems are daunting. The city has fewer jobs now than it did in 1990, with a regional unemployment rate that is more than 2 points higher than the national average. L. A. is also buckling under health care and pension costs and is scaling back public services to compensate. The 2014—2015 budget is projected to be $ 242 million in the red. As the Los Angeles 2020 Commission, a group of business, labor and public-sector leaders charged by the city council with diagnosing the region’s ills, put it in a December report, " Los Angeles is barely treading water while the rest of the world is moving forward. "
By saying "Los Angeles is barely treading water" , the author means______.
选项 A、it is flooded with water
B、its economy is stagnant
C、it has so many problems
D、its prospect is promising
答案B
解析 根据题干定位到原文最后一句：Los Angeles is barely treading water while the rest ofthe world is moving forward．本句的while表示比较，说明上下句信息是对应、相反的，由此可以猜测出treading water一词与moving forward相对。故可知这个词组表达出的感情色彩是否定的。选项[A]理解过于表面，错误。选项[D]是褒义、肯定的，与treading water的感情色彩不符，故错误。剩余两项中，与“moving forward前进”表述相反的是选项[B]中的“stagnant停滞”一词，故答案为选项[B]。
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