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How best to solve the pollution problems of a city sunk so deep within sulfurous clouds that it was described as hell on earth?
How best to solve the pollution problems of a city sunk so deep within sulfurous clouds that it was described as hell on earth?
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2022-01-20
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How best to solve the pollution problems of a city sunk so deep within sulfurous clouds that it was described as hell on earth? Simply answered: Relocate all urban smoke-creating industry and encircle the metropolis of London with sweetly scented flowers and elegant hedges.
In fact, as Christine L. Corton, a Cambridge scholar, reveals in her new book, London Fog, this fragrant anti-smoke scheme was the brainchild of John Evelyn, the 17th-century diarist. King Charles II was said to be much pleased with Evelyn’ s idea, and a bill against the smoky nuisance was duly drafted. Then nothing was done. Nobody at the time, and nobody right up to the middle of the 20th century, was willing to put public health above business interests.
And yet it’s a surprise to discover how beloved a feature of London life these multicolored fogs became. A painter, Claude Monet, fleeing besieged Paris in 1870, fell in love with London’ s vaporous, mutating clouds. He looked upon the familiar mist as his reliable collaborator. Visitors from abroad may have delighted in the fog, but homegrown artists lit candles and vainly scrubbed the
grime
from their gloom-filled studio windows. "Give us light!" Frederic Leighton pleaded to the guests at a Lord Mayor’ s banquet in 1882, begging them to have pity on the poor painter.
The more serious side of Corton’ s book documents how business has taken precedence over humanity where London’ s history of pollution is concerned. A prevailing westerly wind meant that those dwelling to the east were always at most risk. Those who could afford it lived elsewhere. The east was abandoned to the underclass. Lord Palmerston spoke up for choking East Enders in the 1850s, pointing a finger at the interests of the furnace owners. A bill was passed, but there was little change. Eventually, another connection was established: between London’ s perpetual veil of smog and its citizens’ cozily smoldering grates. Sadly, popular World War I songs like "Keep the Home Fires Burning" didn’t do much to encourage the adoption of smokeless fuel.
It wasn’t until what came to be known as the "Great Killer Fog" of 1952 that the casualty rate became impossible to ignore and the British press finally took up the cause. It was left to a Member of Parliament to steer the Clean Air Act into law in 1956. Within a few years, even as the war against pollution was still in its infancy, the dreaded fog began to fade.
Corton’ s book combines meticulous social history with a wealth of eccentric detail. Thus we learn that London’ s ubiquitous plane trees were chosen for their shiny, fog-resistant foliage. It’ s discoveries like these that make reading London Fog such an unusual and enlightening experience.
The author mainly shows in the last but one paragraph that________.
选项
A、Great Killer Fog led to huge mortality
B、The British press was also playing a big role
C、It was a long way for Clean Air Act to be passed
D、reducing the air pollution worked though it was in the primary stage
答案
D
解析
细节题。根据题干关键词定位到倒数第二段。该段前两句指出两个为治理雾霾而努力的具体事件,第三句作出总结,指出“短短几年之内,虽然反对污染的战斗还处于初级阶段,但可怕的浓雾已经开始退去”。故D项“尽管处于初期,但减少空气污染奏效了”为正确答案。A项“‘杀人大雾’导致许多人死亡”和C项“通过《空气清洁法案》曾是一个漫长的过程”只是表面意义。B项“英国媒体也发挥了重要作用”并不是作者主要想表达的内容。
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