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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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问题
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.
What do we learn about the trash facility built at 91st Street?
选项
A、It will generate no influence on the neighborhood.
B、It will help the neighborhood deal with trash by itself.
C、It will deal with about 1,800 tons of trash a day.
D、It will be built by the side of the East River.
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。本题考查建在91号街区的垃圾站的作用。由原文可知,纽约市应该在91号街区建立一个现代化的、低噪音的处理厂把曼哈顿的垃圾转移到东河的驳船上,然后每天就能把1 800吨垃圾通过驳船运输到其他州了,故C)“它每天能处理1 800吨垃圾”为本题答案。A)“它对附近的居民不会产生影响”和原文不符,原文只提出这个垃圾站噪音低,但不意味着不会产生任何影响,该说法过于绝对,故排除;B)“它将帮助附近的居民自己处理垃圾”和原文不符,由原文可知该垃圾站会把垃圾转运到东河的驳船上运出去,而不是自行解决这些垃圾,故排除;D)“它将会被建在东河岸边”和原文不符,垃圾会被运送到东河,而不是把垃圾站建在东河岸边,故排除。
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