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  3. The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing I could ever have imagined for me or my children.

The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing I could ever have imagined for me or my children.

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问题     The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing I could ever have imagined for me or my children. We are living in an environmental crisis, an air pollution emergency of unprecedented severity. What it really means is that just to breathe here is to play a dangerous game with your health.
    As parents, what terrorizes us most are reports that children are at higher risk because they breathe more times per minute. What more can we do to protect them and ourselves? Our pediatrician’s medical recommendation was simple: abandon the city permanently. We are foreigners and we are among the small minority that can afford to leave. We are here because of my husband’s work. We are fascinated by Mexico — its history and rich culture. We know that for us, this is a temporary danger. However, we cannot stand for much longer the fear we feel for our boys. We cannot stop them from breathing.
    But for millions, there is no choice. Their lives, their jobs, their futures depend on being here. Thousands of Mexicans arrive each day in this city, desperate for economic opportunities. Thousands more are born here each day. Entire families work in the streets and practically live there. It is a familiar sight: as parents hawk goods at stoplights, their children play in the grassy highway dividers, breathing exhaust fumes. I feel guilty complaining about my personal situation; we won’t be here long enough for our children to tbrm the impression that skies are colored only gray.
    And yet the government cannot do what it must to end this problem. For any country, especially a developing Third World economy like Mexico’ s, the idea of barring from the capital city enough cars, closing enough factories end speeding the necessary billions on public transportation is simply not an option. So when things get bad, as in the current emergency, Mexico takes half measure — prohibiting some more cars from circulating, stopping some factories from producing that even its own officials concede aren’t adequate.
    The word "emergency" implies the unusual. But when daily life itself is an emergency, the concept loses its meaning. It is human nature to try to adapt to that which we cannot change. Or to mislead ourselves into believing we can adapt.
Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
选项 A、Kids are in greater danger than grownups in Mexico City.
B、The author is not a native Mexican.
C、The Mexican history and culture appeal to the author.
D、The author’ s husband is a pediatrician.
答案D
解析 细节题。文章第二段说，空气污染对孩子的危害更大，因为小孩每分钟呼吸 的次数比成年人多，因此A为事实，接下来说，我们是外国人……，因此B也是事实。下 面说到他们深为墨西哥的历史和文化所吸引，因此C是事实。到此就可判断D为正确答案 了。从内容上看，本段中说到他们来到墨西哥是因为她的丈夫的工作，文章没有交代作者 的丈夫是干什么的，但可以判断是与墨西哥的历史和文化有关的工作。文中提到了 pediatrician，但不是说作者的丈夫是个pediatrician。因此D不是事实。
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