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People are no longer so naive as to believe whatever vested interests say. It is only necessary to look at smoking to learn much

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问题     People are no longer so naive as to believe whatever vested interests say. It is only necessary to look at smoking to learn much about the current campaign of disinformation when it comes to fossil fuels and greenhouse gases. The opposition will then occupy the same place in public perception as that reserved for the early anti-smoking lobbies.
    Remember that those who warned of the health dangers of smoking have been proven prescient. Not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer or emphysema, not every exposure to second-hand smoke proves lethal. But the early warnings have been proven correct enough that smart people no longer smoke and smoking in public now no longer has all the social acceptability.
    My point is simple. The analogy between the early warnings of the dangers of smoking and the early warning of the danger of global warming is apt. Both are following the same path of anger and denial from the people who benefit from lax regulations and cooperative governments.
    No, I don’t believe everyone has to bike to work, or turn down the thermostat to 15. But I do believe it would be sheer stupidity to ignore the warnings of global warming and the dangers inherent in u-sing fossil fuel just because a coalition of automakers and vested interests characterize worries as needless and pathetic. It only makes sense to encourage the development of fuel-efficient transportation and alternative fuels toil and gas. We can move ourselves in the direction of survival, instead of acting like the dinosaurs.
    Consider a few generations ago, the suggestion that the use of coal was polluting the air and presenting a health danger was greeted with hoots of derision from the coal companies, somewhat like the sounds coming out of governments dependent on oil and gas revenues and royalties. Rather than work toward replacement fuels, the coal mines and miners were just left to wither away and die. Government has a choice be part of the problem, or part of the solution. In the end, only those who are part of the solution will survive, as the coal miners discovered.  
The early warnings about smoking and those of global warming were similar because ______.
选项 A、both were successful in the end
B、both ignored the underlying problem
C、both failed to receive public support
D、both were dismissed by those with vested interests
答案D
解析 细节题。第三段提到了作者的类比，接着指出：两者都引发了愤怒，都受到了那些从宽松的法规以及联合执政的政府那里得到好处的人们的否认。D符合题意，为正确选项。A明显与文意不符；B和C属于not given类型。
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