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
职业资格
A simple piece of rope hangs between some environmentally friendly Americans and their neighbors. On one side stand those who ha
A simple piece of rope hangs between some environmentally friendly Americans and their neighbors. On one side stand those who ha
admin
2022-01-25
65
问题
A simple piece of rope hangs between some environmentally friendly Americans and their neighbors. On one side stand those who have begun to see clothes dryers as wasteful consumers of energy (up to 6% of total electricity) and powerful emitters of carbon dioxide (up to a ton of C02 per household every year). As an alternative, they are turning to clotheslines as part of what Alexander Lee, an environmentalist, calls "what-I-can-do environmentalism" .
But on the other side are people who oppose air-drying laundry outside on aesthetic grounds. Increasingly, they have persuaded community and homeowners associations (HOAs) across the U.S. to ban outdoor clotheslines, which they say not only look unsightly but also lower surrounding property values. Those actions, in turn, have sparked a right-to-dry movement that is pressing for legislation to protect the choice to use clotheslines. Only three states—Florida, Hawaii and Utah— have laws written broadly enough to protect clotheslines. Right-to-dry advocates argue that there should be more.
Matt Reck is the kind of eco-conscious guy who feeds his trees with bathwater and recycles condensation drops from his air conditioners to water plants. His family also uses a clothesline. But Otto Hagen, president of Reek’s HOA in Wake Forest, N.C., notified him that a neighbor had complained about his line. The Recks ignored the warning and still dry their clothes on a rope in the yard. "Many people claim to be environmentally friendly but don’t take matters into their own hands," says Reck. HOAs Hagen has decided to hold off taking action. "I’m not going to go crazy," he says. "But if Matt keeps his line and more neighbors complain, I’ll have to address it again."
North Carolina lawmakers tried and failed earlier this year to insert language into an energy bill that would expressly prevent HOAs from regulating clotheslines. But the issue remains a touchy one with HOAs and real estate agents. "Most aesthetic restrictions are rooted, to a degree, in the belief that homogeneous exteriors are supportive of property value," says Sara Stubbins, executive director of the Community Association Institute’s North Carolina chapter. In other words, associations worry that housing prices will fall if prospective buyers think their would-be neighbors are too poor to afford dryers.
Alexander Lee dismisses the notion that clotheslines devalue property assets, advocating that the idea "needs to change in light of global warming" . "We all have to do at least something to decrease our carbon footprint," Alexander Lee says.
An appropriate title for the passage might be
选项
A、Opinions on Environmental Protection
B、Opinions on Air-drying Laundry
C、What-I-Can-Do Environmentalism
D、Restrictions on Clotheslines
答案
B
解析
主旨题。本文主要介绍了人们对于户外晾衣绳的不同观点,以及他们的理由,B项可以概括全文。A项过于宽泛;C项只是文章提到的一点;D项是其中的一种观点,不能概括全文。故本题选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/UO3v777K
本试题收录于:
英语学科知识与教学能力题库教师资格分类
0
英语学科知识与教学能力
教师资格
相关试题推荐
下列材料是某老师的一节思想品德课的课堂实录片段。课题:男女同学的友谊教学实录课堂导入:播放幻灯片片头,学生欣赏音乐《永浴爱河》。教学过程(一)活动一:讨论男女交往给我们带来哪些好处1.老师出示收集的图片。2.学生讨论.表述他们来自于生活的体验
WhichofthefollowingisNOTasuitablepre-listeningactivity?
Whichofthefollowingisaslipoftongue?
Teachersbelievinginthe______modelinageneralsenseusuallyfollowthesequenceofteachingnewwords,sentencesandthent
WhichofthefollowingmaterialsisNOTappropriateforateachertouseinlisteningpractice?
______arenotaminimalpairinEnglish.
Manyanimalscommunicatewithspecialcallswhichhavecorrespondingmeaningsbutcannotbefurtherdividedintoelements,soan
ChinesewriterCaoWenxuanwasawardedtheChristianAndersonAwardin2016,makinghimselfthefirstChinese______suchaprize.
随机试题
硼砂是治疗口腔炎中成药冰硼散的主要成分,其分子式为()。
甲公司因遗失一张汇票向A县法院申请公示催告,在公示催告期满后,乙公司向A县法院申报权利。经审查,乙公司的权利申报成立。法院应当如何处理此案?(2008—卷三—43,单)
工程咨询公司管理方法的特点包括()。
项目团队成员主要的沟通要求是()。
出料量300L的强制式搅拌机拌制坍落度55mm的混凝土,搅拌时间为()。[2016年真题]
案例四[背景材料]某工程,建设单位委托监理单位承担施工阶段和工程质量保修期的监理工作,建设单位与施工单位按《建设工程施工合同(示范文本)》签订了施工合同。基坑支护施工中,项目监理机构发现施工单位采用了一项新技术,未按已批准的施工技术方案施工
2,3,7,45,2017,()
给定资料 1.中国共产党第十八届中央委员会第三次全体会议,于2013年11月9日至12日在北京举行。全会听取和讨论了习近平受中央政治局委托作的工作报告,审议通过了《中共中央关于全面深化改革若干重大问题的决定》。习近平就《决定(讨论稿)》向全会作了说明
(甲)宋儒理学的代表人物中,如陆九渊的读书经验也有可取之处。《陆象山语录》有一则写道:“如今读书且平平读,未晓处且放过,不必太滞。”接着,他又举出下面的一首诗:“读书切戒在慌忙,涵泳工夫兴味长;未晓不妨权放过,切身须要急思量。”这就是所谓“
A、 B、 C、 C原文说“Lily通常午餐只吃一个汉堡”,所以[C]是正确的。
最新回复
(
0
)