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The energy crisis, which is being felt around the world, has dramatized how the reckless despoiling of the earth’s resources has
The energy crisis, which is being felt around the world, has dramatized how the reckless despoiling of the earth’s resources has
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2019-09-30
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The energy crisis, which is being felt around the world, has dramatized how the reckless despoiling of the earth’s resources has brought the whole world to brink of disaster. The overdevelopment of motor transport, with its increase of more cars, more highways, more pollution, more suburbs, more commuting, has contributed to the near-destruction of our cities, the disintegration of the family, and the pollution not only of local air, but also of the earth’s atmosphere. The catastrophe has arrived in the form of the energy crisis.
Our present situation is unlike war, revolution, or depression. It is also unlike the great natural catastrophes of the past. Worldwide resources exploitation and energy use have brought us to a state where long-range planning is crucial. What we need is not a continuation of our present perilous state, which endangers the future of our country, our children, and our earth, but a movement forward to a new norm in order to work rapidly and effectively on planetary problems.
This country has been reeling under the continuing exposures of loss of moral integrity and the revelation that lawbreaking has reached into the highest places in the land. There is a strong demand for moral revival and for some commitment that is vast enough and yet personal enough to enlist the loyalty of all. In the past it has been only in a war in defense of their own country and their own ideals that any people have been able to invoke a total commitment.
This is the first time that we have been asked to defend ourselves and what we hold dear in cooperation with all the other inhabitants of this planet, who share with us the same endangered air and the same endangered oceans. There is a common need to reassess our present course, to change that course, and to devise new methods through which the world can survive. This is a priceless opportunity.
To grasp it, we need a widespread understanding of the nature of the crisis confronting us—and the world—a crisis that is no passing inconvenience, no by-product of the ambition of the oil producing countries, no environmentalists’ mere fears, no by-product of any present system of government. What we face is the outcome of the invention of the last four hundred years. What we need is a transformed lifestyle. This new life style can flow directly from science and technology, but its acceptance depends on an overriding commitment to a higher quality of life for the world’s children and future generation.
By comparing the past with the present, the author wants to draw people’s attention to _____.
选项
A、the significance of the crisis
B、the inadequacy of governmental cooperation
C、the similarity of the former to the latter
D、the seriousness of the moral integrity
答案
A
解析
观点态度题。根据comparing the past with the present定位到第三段末尾和第四段段首。文中提到“在过去,只有当人们为自己的国家或理想而战时,他们才能做出如此毫无保留的奉献”,“这是我们第一次被要求与其他国民一道来保护我们自己”,故可以推断作者意在说明能源危机已经超越个人的范畴,需要全体人类积极应对,故选A项。
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