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In his first term, Mayor Michael Bloomberg mapped out a fair plan to get rid of 11,000 tons of New York City garbage every day.
In his first term, Mayor Michael Bloomberg mapped out a fair plan to get rid of 11,000 tons of New York City garbage every day.
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2013-10-17
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In his first term, Mayor Michael Bloomberg mapped out a fair plan to get rid of 11,000 tons of New York City garbage every day. The complex proposal was designed to make each district take care of its own trash. It was also supposed to help limit noisy garbage trucks going long distances through the city to reach marine barges(驳船), railways or out-of-state trash facilities.
Nobody wanted these new garbage transfer stations in their neighborhood, even with promises of new high-tech, low-smell facilities. There are already stations in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, most of them in lower-income communities. Only one area of the city—the Upper East Side of Manhattan—has refused to accept a trash facility. The city should not give in to local resistance.
It is time for residents in that neighborhood to accept a share of the city’s garbage problem. The city should build a modern, environmentally sound facility at 91st Street to transfer trash from Manhattan to barges on the East River. That trash, estimated at up to 1,800 tons a day, would then go by barge to other states.
Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said last week that the city has had to fight off "lawsuit after lawsuit" with "every useless argument under the sun" from those opposing the 91st Street facility. Those delays have helped push the cost for building the station from $ 125 million in 2006 to about $ 226 million now.
An earlier trash station at that site, which was closed in 1999, was badly designed so that trucks idled along York Avenue. The new facility, Mr. Holloway said, has been designed to reduce the congestion problem with longer ramps(匝道)leading to the facility, which sits on the eastern side of Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. The plans also call for higher noise-blocking walls along the ramps.
This terminal is an essential part of the city’s 20-year waste management plan. John Doherty, the sanitation(环境卫生)commissioner, told critics at a hearing last week, " We will not entertain any changes to what is a fair and thoughtful, district-based approach that was founded on the principles of environmental equity for all New Yorkers. "
Environmental equity, in this case, means that the Upper East Side of Manhattan has to do its part.
According to the author, the city should______.
选项
A、insist its plan to build trash stations in each district
B、establish new high-tech, low-smell facilities
C、build stations only in low-income communities
D、reach an agreement with the Upper East Side of Manhattan
答案
A
解析
事实细节题。由原文可知,纽约市的其他地区都已经建立了自己的垃圾中转站来解决城市的垃圾问题,只有曼哈顿的上东区拒绝在自己辖区内建立垃圾中转站。作者提出纽约市不应该向这种地域性的抵抗妥协,因此,A)“坚持自己在每个区建立垃圾中转站的计划”为本题答案,即每个区都不能搞特例。B)“建立新的高科技、气味小的垃圾中转站”在原文中被提到了,但该选项是对纽约市处理垃圾计划的一部分的事实说明,而不是作者对该问题表明的态度,故排除;C)“只在低收入街区建立垃圾站”是对当前情况的说明,也不是作者的观点,故排除;D)“和曼哈顿上东区达成协议”和原文意思相反,故排除。
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