首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, especially one of the over-educated, eco-conscious type
There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, especially one of the over-educated, eco-conscious type
admin
2020-12-14
74
问题
There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, especially one of the over-educated, eco-conscious type. So you can imagine the reaction when a recent USA Today investigation of air quality around the nation’ s schools singled out those in the smugly (自鸣得意的) green village of Berkeley, Calif, as being among the worst in the country. The city’s public high school, as well as a number of daycare centres, preschools, elementary and middle schools, fell in the lowest 10%. Industrial pollution in our town had supposedly turned students into living science experiments breathing in a laboratory’s worth of heavy metals like manganese, chromium and nickel each day. This is a city that requires school cafeterias to serve organic meals. Great, I thought, organic lunch, toxic campus.
Since December, when the report came out, the mayor, neighbourhood activists (活跃分子) and various parent-teacher associations have engaged in a fierce battle over its validity: over the guilt of the steel-casting factory on the western edge of town, over union jobs versus children’ s health and over what, if anything, ought to be done. With all sides presenting their own experts armed with conflicting scientific studies, whom should parents believe? Is there truly a threat here, we asked one another as we dropped off our kids, and if so, how great is it? And how does it compare with the other, seemingly perpetual health scares we confront, like panic over lead in synthetic athletic fields? Rather than just another weird episode in the town that brought you protesting environmentalists, this latest drama is a trial for how today’ s parents perceive risk, how we try to keep our kids safe—whether it’ s possible to keep them safe—in what feels like an increasingly threatening world. It raises the question of what, in our time, "safe" could even mean.
"There’s no way around the uncertainty," says Kimberly Thompson, president of Kid Risk, a non-profit group that studies children’s health. "That means your choices can matter, but it also means you aren’t going to know if they do." A 2004 report in the journal Paediatrics explained that nervous parents have more to fear from fire, car accidents and drowning than from toxic chemical exposure. To which I say: Well, obviously. But such concrete hazards are beside the point. It’s the dangers parents can’t— and may never—quantify that occur all of sudden. That’s why I’ ve rid my cupboard of microwave food packed in bags coated with a potential cancer-causing substance, but although I’ ve lived blocks from a major fault line (地质断层) for more than 12 years, I still haven’t bolted our bookcases to the living room wall.
How did parents feel in the face of the experts’ studies?
选项
A、They felt very much relieved.
B、They were frightened by the evidence.
C、They didn’ t know who to believe.
D、They weren ’t convinced of the results.
答案
C
解析
细节题。题干问家长对专家研究的反应。原文第二段第二句With all sides presenting their own experts armed with conflictinz scientific studies,whom should parents believe?在各方专家发表自己的观点后,家长应该相信谁?言下之意指,家长不知道应该相信谁。因此,正确答案是C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/DyP7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Who’sReallyAddictingYoutoTechnology?[A]"NearlyeveryoneIknowisaddictedinsomemeasuretotheInternet,"wroteTonyS
CountriesRushforUpperHandinAntarctica[A]Onaglacier-filledislandwithfjords(峡湾)andelephantseals,RussiahasbuiltAn
MillionsofAmericansareenteringtheir60sandaremoreconcernedthaneveraboutretirement.Theyknowtheyneedtosave,but
A、Helistensappreciativelywhenheenjoysmusicandnews.B、Hesinglesoutoneparticularsoundfromanoisyenvironment.C、He
A、Failureinreadingmedicinedirections.B、Incapabilityoftakingcareofchildren.C、Brokenfamilyrelationship.D、Reluctance
A、GoingtoItalyvs.helpinghermother.B、GoingtoNepalvs.stayinghome.C、Havingfunvs.makingmoney.D、Attendingherfamil
Peopleatthelowerendoftheincomescaletakemorepleasureintheirrelationshipsandenjoycaringforandconnectingwitho
Peopleatthelowerendoftheincomescaletakemorepleasureintheirrelationshipsandenjoycaringforandconnectingwitho
Massiverubbishdumpsandsprawlinglandfillsconstituteoneofthemoreuncomfortableimpactsthathumanshaveonwildlife.The
A、Trafficaccidents.B、Radiation.C、Traintravel.D、Aircrash.B原文提及“不久前人们认为在太空中会遭遇到严重的威胁,主要有辐射和流星撞击”。故B正确。
随机试题
A.36.7~37.7℃B.36.9~37.9℃C.37.3~38.0℃D.38.1~39.0℃E.39.1~41.0℃口测法的正常体温是【】
关于表皮棘细胞层的结构特征,哪项是错误的
拟除虫菊酯农药中,有的品种可作家庭卫生用,日常用的电热灭蚊片含有
环境保护方案设计的原则和要求是什么?
某省重点工程项目计划于2004年12月28日开工,由于工程复杂,技术难度高,一般施工队伍难以胜任,业主自行决定采取邀请招标方式。于2004年9月8日向通过资格预审的A、B、C、D、E五家施工承包企业发出了投标邀请书。该五家企业均接受了邀请,并于规定时间9月
会计职业道德检查的目的是为了清除腐败。()
(2012年)下列项目中,影响上市公司报告年度基本每股收益的有()。
分配管理指的是对利润分配的管理;本书所指利润分配是指对税前利润的分配。()
下列各项可以降低盈亏临界点作业率的是()。
Whatisthepurposeoftheconversation?
最新回复
(
0
)