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  3. "If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will," Barack Obama said last month in his state-of-the-union speec

"If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will," Barack Obama said last month in his state-of-the-union speec

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问题     "If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will," Barack Obama said last month in his state-of-the-union speech. "I will direct my cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy." This week Mr. Obama named the officials charged with fulfilling that directive: Gina McCarthy, his choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, and Ernest Moniz, the prospective new secretary of energy. Their selection suggests that Mr. Obama is indeed serious about tackling climate change, but not doctrinaire in his approach.
    Ms Mc Carthy already works at the EPA, where she is in charge of air quality. That has given her a leading role drafting the administration’s most ambitious and controversial environmental rules, including limits on emissions of greenhouse gases for new power plants and strict fuel-efficiency requirements for cars. She is the natural candidate to oversee the most obvious and consequential step Mr. Obama could take to stem global warming: a regulation curbing emissions from existing power plants.
    Republicans do not fancy that idea at all, and have introduced bills in Congress to strip the EPA of its regulatory authority over greenhouse gases. They often accused Lisa Jackson, the agency’s previous boss, of disregarding the cumulative impact of its many clean-air rules, and suffocating industry as a result.
    Yet Ms McCarthy makes an unlikely target. She has worked for Republican governors in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Industry groups mustered kind words about her nomination. As Mr. Obama put it," She’s earned a reputation as a straight-shooter."
What’s the Republicans’ attitude towards Obama’s step taken to stop global warming?
选项 A、Approval.
B、Skepticism.
C、Disapproval.
D、Indifference.
答案C
解析 第三段首句明确指出：Republicans do not fancy that idea at all，and have introduced bills in Congress to strip the EPA of its regulatory authority over greenhouse gases．可见他们对于总统采取的措施态度非常明确，是“do not fancy that idea at all”；从not…at all我们可以看出共和党人持反对态度，即选项C是正确的。
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