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Recently the Gallup Organization released its findings about public opinion on global warming. It’s not good news for activists,

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问题     Recently the Gallup Organization released its findings about public opinion on global warming. It’s not good news for activists, Fully 48% of respondents believe that the threat of climate change is exaggerated, up from 31% in 1999. In keeping with this wishful thinking, more Americans believe that scientists have greater doubts about climate change (not true) while fewer Americans think that the effects of global warming are already being felt. In sum, you can say that fewer Americans are worried about the environment when it really counts.
    You can mark this down to crisis fatigue. We certainly are feeling that about the Gulf oil spill, where a general sense of gloom prevails over viable (可实施的) calls to action. Is the whole planet going to be like that one day,a state of perpetual disaster? Or are we seeing ourselves in Nature’s mirror? If it is the latter—and I think it is—we don’t have to feel so paralyzed.
    For centuries,human beings looked at Nature as basically a source of endless abundance. We were supposed to be the stewards (管理员) of Nature .taking care of it as it provided for us. What did this say about human nature? That we were the favored species in Creation,that all other creatures were lesser, and that we had every reason to be optimistic about the future. Nature, like God, was infinite in its ability to sustain us.
    Today all those beliefs have been seriously eroded. Few people seriously connect the ecology with a divine creation. The ecology is a vast system governed by finite laws. Rather than acting as stewards,we ruthlessly plunder (掠夺) the limited resources that remain. Even the threat of outright catastrophe doesn’t cause us to change our ways. Yet as we grab more and more from the feast table, people are not in a festive mood. They feel quite depressed and anxious about Nature. (In relation to the Gulf oil spill, for example, about half of Americans believe that the affected beaches will never return to their former clean state, while almost 60% believe that the damaged animal populations will never return to their old numbers. ) Clearly,the present state of belief can’t be endured forever—never-ending gloom can only lead to more numbness,denial,and helplessness.
    The question, then, is whether a new set of beliefs about Nature can emerge. The old religious-based values are not going to return. The only answer is to look in the mirror again and see who we really are. We are also capable of empathy，bonded at a basic level, gifted with foreknowledge of the future , and imbued with love of the natural world. Finding God within ourselves offers a new way. Every step on that path reduces our destructive effect on Nature and brings us closer to loving union with her.  
The old beliefs about Nature______.
选项 A、are affecting the ways of how we treat Nature
B、have encouraged human beings to change the current ecology
C、are disappearing with human’s exploitation of the resources of nature
D、are teaching human beings to change the laws of ecology
答案C
解析 事实细节题。题干要求正确理解人类和自然关系的古老信仰，原文提到Today all those beliefs have been seriously eroded．“今日，所有的信仰都被腐蚀了”，并且下文又提到人类疯狂地掠夺有限的资源，故C)“古老的信仰已经荡然无存了，人们疯狂地掠夺着资源”为答案。A)“古老的信仰影响着我们对待自然的态度”，而原文中说到“古老的信仰已经不复存在，人们开始掠夺大自然赋予我们的资源”，故排除；B)“古老的信仰鼓励着我们来改变当前的生态环境”，与原文中提到的我们保护、管理自然界的古老信仰不相符，故排除；D)“古老的信仰教会人类改变生态规律”，是对古老信仰的错误理解，故排除。
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