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The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing. I could ever have imagined for me or my children.
The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing. I could ever have imagined for me or my children.
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2015-01-09
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The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing. I could ever have imagined for me or my children. We are living in an environmental crisis, an air-pollution emergency of unprecedented severity. What it really means is that just to breathe here is to play a dangerous game with your health.
As parents, what terrorizes us most are reports that children are at higher risk because they breathe more times per minute. What more can we do to protect them and ourselves? Our pediatrician’ s(儿科医师的)medical recommendation was simple: abandon the city permanently. We are foreigners and we are among the small minority that can afford to leave. We are here because of my husband’ s work. We are fascinated by Mexico—its history and rich culture. We know that for us, this is a temporary danger. However, we cannot stand for much longer the fear we feel for our boys. We cannot stop them from breathing.
But for millions, there is no choice. Their lives, their jobs, their futures depend on being here. Thousands of Mexicans arrive each day in this city, desperate for economic opportunities. Thousands more are born here each day. Entire families work in the streets and practically live there. It is a familiar sight: as parents hawk goods at stoplights, their children play in the grassy highway dividers, breathing exhaust fumes. I feel guilty complaining about my personal situation; we won’t be here long enough for our children to form the impression that skies are colored only gray.
And yet the government cannot do what it must to end this problem. For any country, especially a developing Third World economy like Mexico, the idea of barring from the capital city enough cars, closing enough factories and spending the necessary billions on public transportation is simply not an option. So when things get bad, as in the current emergency, Mexico takes half measures—prohibiting some more cars from circulating, stopping some factories from producing—that even its own officials concede aren’t adequate.
The word "emergency" implies the unusual. But when daily life itself is an emergency, the concept loses its meaning. It is human nature to try to adapt to that which we cannot change or to mislead ourselves into believing we can adapt.
The Mexican government takes half measures to solve the pollution problem because_____.
选项
A、Mexican economy depends very much on cars and factories
B、it is not wise enough to come up with effective measures
C、Mexicans are able to adapt themselves to the current emergency
D、Mexicans enjoy playing dangerous games with their health
答案
A
解析
文章第四段中讲到:墨西哥政府不能实施控制空气污染的必要措施,因为对于墨西哥来说,控制首都足够的车辆、关闭足够的工厂以及在公共交通上投资数十亿必需的费用这样的想法是不可能的;当情况变严重时,墨西哥城采取折中办法——禁止更多的车辆运行、让一些工厂停止生产。由此可以看出在墨西哥车辆和工厂占据着重要的地位,政府在空气受到污染时亦没有采取必要的措施来关闭和控制,只能做出折中选择。A项符合文意。所以应该选A。
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