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  3. In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

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问题 In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、D、E、F、G……) to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are several extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. (10 points)

    At Yale University, some ten students live off campus in a cooperative home they call the Green House. (41)______. Late at night, they drive to the store and quietly jump into its car-sized dumpster, picking out unopened packages of still fresh food. They find milk, eggs, bread and cookies, chocolate, soup, vegetables, even frozen pizzas and soymilk. Not only are most Green House residents vegetarian, but they are also moderate freegans, meaning that they eat mainly what they can get for free. These students, of course, are trying to leave as small an "ecological footprint" as possible.
    (42)______. Across America other devout environmentalists tire "off the grid", building shacks in the wilderness without running water or electricity. Frustrated with environmental destruction and waste, they have renounced the system that fosters and perpetuates it. Such ascetic anti-consumerism may be the most dramatic side of environmentalism, and it leads to cultural ferment that can set into motion political and economic change. Its practitioners focus on personal sacrifice, hoping that their ideals and asceticism will spread like a religion.
    (43)______. Our political and economic systems are deeply immature. Environmentalists need m spend just as much energy organizing political and economic environmentalism. Also, old-fashioned environmentalism often assumes that business is opposed to environmental protection. In fact, thousands of US companies are discovering, often with the help of energy consultants, how much money they have to stand from becoming environmentally efficient: saving energy and recycling within industry. The recent book Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawkenetal now translated into Chinese, should get some of the credit for bringing about this transformation in attitudes.
    Paradoxically, the US is both the birthplace of global environmentalism and the world’s biggest environmental spender. Romanticism, the European and American literary and artistic movement that found God in the wilderness, had a strong long term impact on American thinking, starting in the middle third of the 19th century. In particular, renewed attention to the essays of Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) helped launch modern environmentalism a century after his death. (44)______. Why the discrepancy?
Most environmental damage cannot be boiled down to the choices made by individuals. Most environmental damage cannot be boiled down to the choices made by individuals. Rather, individuals are locked into a system in which heavy industry commits the majority of ecological crimes, buttressed by an economic system that squanders natural resources. The government gives away mining rights and opens public forests to loggers practically for free—and big business spends millions of dollars to make sure politicians keep on doing so. (45)______. For many environmental problems, the solution is organized political pressure and entrepreneurial innovation.

A. At times, the moral conviction and worldview of the Green House appear as all encompassing as a religious faith. Green House inmates live in the most environmentally "pious" way one could conceive of in the city.
B. But effective environmentalism requires more than words, more than cultural change. It requires legal and economic reform. It demands historically unprecedented policies incorporating the value of cherished natural resources in market calculations. It calls for new organizations and entrepreneurial commitment. Anyone have any ideas?
C. But one drawback of focusing environmentalist energy on abstaining from personal consumption is that such an approach can distract people from the larger muses of environmental destruction, which cannot be affected by individual choices to consume or not to consume.
D. Other government subsidies support several filthy industries. While the government pays for new freeways, thus subsidizing automobiles, it ignores trains and bus networks. Polluters don’t pay the real cost of externalities such as toxic waste and air and water pollution.
E. They recycle cans, bottles and paper meticulously, sorting them into the bins collected by municipal trucks in American cities. They reuse "grey water", meaning that they plug the drain when they shower and then use buckets to flush the toilet with the old soapy water. To prevent food from going to waste, they even get most of their groceries out of the trash of an upscale grocery store.
F. We should recall, however, that environmentalists have often been fobbed off with token gestures, idle talk and unimplemented treaties. Even President Bush, who has the worst environmental record of any American president so far, has mastered the art of (largely empty) environmentalist rhetoric.
G. Yet today America, with only 596 of the world’s population, produces 2496 of global carbon dioxide emissions. The US, like many other rich countries, has cleaned up its air and water, but it is still the biggest contributor to the greatest environmental threat ever global climate change.
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答案E
解析 文章开篇就介绍耶鲁大学环保主义者：在耶鲁，有十几个大学生合伙住在校外一所他们称之为"绿色之家"的房子里。本题后，作者提到：夜半时分，他们开车到达这个商店，轻轻地跳进像汽车大小的废物箱，捡出仍然新鲜的未开封食品。他们能找到牛奶、鸡蛋、面包、甜点、巧克力、浓缩汤、蔬菜，甚至冰冻比萨和豆浆。"绿色之家"的多数成员不仅是素食主义者，还是温和的"白食者"，也就是说，他们所吃的大都是白来的。最后，他指出他们这样做的原因是力图给地球留下尽可能少的"生态脚印"。因此可以推测出本题处的内容也应该是学生们为了留下尽可能少的"生态脚印"的一些做法，即一些环保措施，故选项，E正确：他们每天细心地回收易拉罐、玻璃瓶子、废纸，将它们分类后放进垃圾箱，美国市政环卫卡车会将垃圾箱运走。这些人将"混水"再次利用，也就是说，在淋浴时把下水口堵上，浴后将带有肥皂液的洗澡水装到桶里冲马桶。为了不浪费食物，他们甚至从一个高档食品店的垃圾堆中捡回自己所用的大部分食品。
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