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One year ago we stared aghast at images of the Southeast Asian tsunami. Video cameras taken on vacation to record the everyday p
One year ago we stared aghast at images of the Southeast Asian tsunami. Video cameras taken on vacation to record the everyday p
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2013-01-25
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One year ago we stared aghast at images of the Southeast Asian tsunami. Video cameras taken on vacation to record the everyday pleasures of the beach were suddenly turned to quivering utility as they documented the panic and mayhem of a natural disaster. Who can forget the disbelief in the recorded voices? This can’t be happening to us. Human beings are never prepared for natural disasters. There is a kind of optimism built into our species that seems to prefer to live in the comfortable present rather than confront the possibility of destruction, It may happen, we seem to believe, but not now, and not to us. Mount Vesuvius has been erupting since historical records began. The eruption of A. D. 79 both destroyed Pompeii and preserved it for posterity. Pliny the Younger starkly recorded the details in prose that can still be read as a scientific ac-count. Yet houses are still being erected today at vulnerable sites around Vesuvius, in the face of the geological inevitability of further eruptions.
Disasters are described as "acts of God". Whenever a natural catastrophe occurs, old questions resurface. How can we reconcile tragedy with the idea of a beneficent God? And with that question, the notion of punishment is never far behind. If classical religions were wont to attribute disasters to the wrath of the gods, even in this scientific age the old explanations still have their attractions. And who might not sneakily still wish to believe that a saint could intercede on our behalf?
But there is another kind of disaster. Many scientists think that the Gulf Coast hurricanes may be a symptom of climate change. Carbon emissions have been accelerating more rapidly within a generation or two: this is not the result of some creeping plate indifferent to the fate of humans; this is our responsibility. However, there is still the same, almost willful blindness to the dangers of climate change; after all, the sun still rises, the crops still ripen--why worry? Geology tells us that there have been "green-house worlds" in the distant past. These have been times when seas flooded over continents. Even modest sea-level rises would spell the end of densely populated areas of the world like Bangladesh. In such a case, invoking the God to look after us for the best is just pie in the sky. These are not "acts of God" but acts of man. We should be ashamed of the consequences of our own willing blindness.
What’s the "another kind of disaster" (Line , Para. 3)?
选项
A、The disaster caused by some creeping plate.
B、The disaster caused by the wrath of the gods.
C、The disaster caused by the over population.
D、The disaster caused by our willing blindness.
答案
D
解析
在这句话后面作者提到了墨西哥湾岸区的飓风和二氧化碳排放量的增加。可以归纳,作者认为人类对于环境恶化有责任,更甚的是人类对于一切视而不见。文章关于这一部分的内容是在说如果人类对于我们的环境恶化给予重视并采取行动,有可能不会发生那样的悲剧。因此本题的答案是D。
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