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
考研
People are no longer so naive as to believe whatever vested interests say. It is only necessary to look at smoking to learn much
People are no longer so naive as to believe whatever vested interests say. It is only necessary to look at smoking to learn much
admin
2013-01-28
55
问题
People are no longer so naive as to believe whatever vested interests say. It is only necessary to look at smoking to learn much about the current campaign of disinformation when it comes to fossil fuels and greenhouse gases. The opposition will then occupy the same place in public perception as that reserved for the early anti-smoking lobbies.
Remember that those who warned of the health dangers of smoking have been proven prescient. Not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer or emphysema, not every exposure to second-hand smoke proves lethal. But the early warnings have been proven correct enough that smart people no longer smoke and smoking in public now no longer has all the social acceptability.
My point is simple. The analogy between the early warnings of the dangers of smoking and the early warning of the danger of global warming is apt. Both are following the same path of anger and denial from the people who benefit from lax regulations and cooperative governments.
No, I don’t believe everyone has to bike to work, or turn down the thermostat to 15. But I do believe it would be sheer stupidity to ignore the warnings of global warming and the dangers inherent in u-sing fossil fuel just because a coalition of automakers and vested interests characterize worries as needless and pathetic. It only makes sense to encourage the development of fuel-efficient transportation and alternative fuels toil and gas. We can move ourselves in the direction of survival, instead of acting like the dinosaurs.
Consider a few generations ago, the suggestion that the use of coal was polluting the air and presenting a health danger was greeted with hoots of derision from the coal companies, somewhat like the sounds coming out of governments dependent on oil and gas revenues and royalties. Rather than work toward replacement fuels, the coal mines and miners were just left to wither away and die. Government has a choice be part of the problem, or part of the solution. In the end, only those who are part of the solution will survive, as the coal miners discovered.
The author implies that the government should ______.
选项
A、be a part of the problem
B、encourage the development of alternative fuels
C、investigate the existence of dinosaur fossils
D、learn a lesson from the coal miners and react with derision
答案
B
解析
推理题。题干中的“the governmment”出自文章最后一段。最后一段首先提到:煤矿厂和矿工当初没有努力寻找替代燃料,结果导致企业萎缩、倒闭。随后提到政府的选择:要么成为问题的一部分,要么成为解决问题的一部分,而只有成为解决问题的一部分的人才会生存。由此可知:作者认为政府应该努力寻找替代燃料。B符合题意,为正确选项。A与此意相反;C属于not given类型;D与该段最后一句话的意思不符。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/fzd4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
ItisgenerallybelievedthatinappliedinvestigationSomepeoplelookdownonappliedresearchbecausetheythinkthat
Breakfastisindispensable.Notonlydoesitprovideessentialearly-morningnourishmenttopeopleofallagesthroughoutthewe
Somepeopleexpectedshort-terminterestratestojumpsoonbecausethey______.TheAmericancentralbankwasreluctanttorai
Iftheopinionpollsaretobebelieved,mostAmericansarecomingtotrusttheirgovernmentmorethantheyusedto.Thehabith
Fromthebeginningofthetext,wecanconcludethatTheadjustmentsthatemployercanmakeforthedisabledpeoplemayNOTinc
Cultureshockmightbecalledanoccupationaldiseaseofpeoplewhohavebeensuddenlytransplantedabroad.Likemostailments,
Cultureshockmightbecalledanoccupationaldiseaseofpeoplewhohavebeensuddenlytransplantedabroad.Likemostailments,
Thefactthatblindpeoplecan"see"thingsusingotherpartsoftheirbodiesapartfromtheireyesmayhelpustounderstandou
随机试题
肝炎肠道门诊的管理中下列哪项错误
女,胸骨后疼痛3小时就诊,MRI检查如下图,应诊断为
男性,23岁,炼钢厂炉前工,参加工作不久。某天工作时全身乏力、大量出汗、头晕、恶心一、体温37.2℃。经诊断,该男子为先兆中暑。若只补充水分,该男子还可能出现的情况是()。
下列选项中,属于《唐律疏议》篇目名称的有()。
美国《1980年银行法》废除了Q条例,规定从1980年3月起分6年逐步取消对定期存款和储蓄存款的()。
下列表述中,应缴纳印花税的有()。
下列不属于商业银行业务外包种类的是()。
今年,所有向甲公司求职的人同时也向乙公司求职。甲、乙两公司各同意给予其中半数的求职者每人一个职位。因此,所有的求职者就都找到了一份工作。上述推论基于以下哪项假设?()
设n阶矩阵A的元素全是1,则A的n个特征值是_________.
在考生文件夹下创建一个下拉式菜单mymenu.mnx,并生成菜单程序mymenu.mpr。运行该菜单程序时会在当前vfp系统菜单的末尾追加一个"考试"子菜单,如下图所示。菜单命令"统计"和"返回"的功能都通过执行过程完成。菜单命令"统计"的功
最新回复
(
0
)