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
How best to solve the pollution problems of a city sunk so deep within sulfurous clouds that it was described as hell on earth?
How best to solve the pollution problems of a city sunk so deep within sulfurous clouds that it was described as hell on earth?
admin
2017-08-31
90
问题
How best to solve the pollution problems of a city sunk so deep within sulfurous clouds that it was described as hell on earth? Simply answered: Relocate all urban smoke-creating industry and encircle the metropolis of London with sweetly scented flowers and elegant hedges.
In fact, as Christine L. Corton, a Cambridge scholar, reveals in her new book, London Fog, this fragrant anti-smoke scheme was the brainchild of John Evelyn, the 17th-century diarist. King Charles II was said to be much pleased with Evelyn’ s idea, and a bill against the smoky nuisance was duly drafted. Then nothing was done. Nobody at the time, and nobody right up to the middle of the 20th century, was willing to put public health above business interests.
And yet it’s a surprise to discover how beloved a feature of London life these multicolored fogs became. A painter, Claude Monet, fleeing besieged Paris in 1870, fell in love with London’s vaporous, mutating clouds. He looked upon the familiar mist as his reliable collaborator. Visitors from abroad may have delighted in the fog, but homegrown artists lit candles and vainly scrubbed the
grime
from their gloom-filled studio windows. "Give us light!" Frederic Leighton pleaded to the guests at a Lord Mayor’ s banquet in 1882, begging them to have pity on the poor painter.
The more serious side of Corton’ s book documents how business has taken precedence over humanity where London’ s history of pollution is concerned. A prevailing westerly wind meant that those dwelling to the east were always at most risk. Those who could afford it lived elsewhere. The east was abandoned to the underclass. Lord Palmerston spoke up for choking East Enders in the 1850s, pointing a finger at the interests of the furnace owners. A bill was passed, but there was little change. Eventually, another connection was established: between London’s perpetual veil of smog and its citizens’ cozily smoldering grates. Sadly, popular World War I songs like "Keep the Home Fires Burning" didn’t do much to encourage the adoption of smokeless fuel.
It wasn ’t until what came to be known as the "Great Killer Fog" of 1952 that the casualty rate became impossible to ignore and the British press finally took up the cause. It was left to a Member of Parliament to steer the Clean Air Act into law in 1956. Within a few years, even as the war a-gainst pollution was still in its infancy, the dreaded fog began to fade.
Corton’ s book combines meticulous social history with a wealth of eccentric detail. Thus we learn that London’ s ubiquitous plane trees were chosen for their shiny, fog-resistant foliage. It’ s discoveries like these that make reading London Fog such an unusual and enlightening experience.
The author mainly shows in the last but one paragraph that
选项
A、Great Killer Fog led to huge mortality.
B、The British press was also playing a big role.
C、It was a long way for the Clean Air Act to be passed.
D、reducing the air pollution worked though it was in the primary stage
答案
D
解析
根据题干关键词定位到倒数第二段。该段前两句指出两个为治理雾霾而努力 的具体事件,第三句做总结,指出“短短几年之内,虽然反对污染的战斗还处于初级阶段, 但可怕的浓雾已经开始退去”。故D项“尽管处于初期,但减少空气污染奏效了”为正确答 案。A项“‘杀人大雾’导致巨大的死亡”和C项“通过《空气清洁法案》曾是一个漫长的过 程”只是表层示例。B项“英国媒体也发挥了重要作用”并不是作者主要想表达的内容。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/i9IZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
InalabinOxfordUniversity’sexperimentalpsychologydepartment,researcherRoiCohenKadoshistestingarelativelynewbrai
InalabinOxfordUniversity’sexperimentalpsychologydepartment,researcherRoiCohenKadoshistestingarelativelynewbrai
Inrecentdecades,scientistshavebecomeincreasinglyawareoftheparttheobserver【C1】______inthescientificprocess.Inthe
Muchoftheworldshouldgoonadietin2014.Morethanathirdofadults【C1】______wereestimatedtobe【C2】______orobesein20
Muchoftheworldshouldgoonadietin2014.Morethanathirdofadults【C1】______wereestimatedtobe【C2】______orobesein20
Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyourwriting,youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcommen
Ifyouintendusinghumorinyourtalktomakepeoplesmile,youmustknowhowtoidentifysharedexperiencesandproblems.Your
Youaregoingtoreadalistofheadingsandatextabouthowtowearappropriateclothing.ChooseaheadingfromthelistA-Gt
Ofallthecomponentsofagoodnight’ssleep,dreamsseemtobeleastwithinourcontrol.Indreams,awindowopensintoaworl
Researchonanimalintelligencealwaysmakesmewonderjusthowsmarthumansare.【C1】______thefruit-flyexperimentsdescribed
随机试题
A.森林脑炎病毒B.汉坦病毒C.乙型脑炎病毒D.麻疹病毒E.登革病毒传播媒介是伊蚊()
有些人的心情比较容易受到外界影响。比如飞行员担心遇到雷暴,虽然没有什么奇招,但有些食物的确能让大脑更好地运作,可可就是其中之一。这是因为可可含有大量的茶碱和咖啡因。它们可以有效地减轻压力和缓解疼痛。以下哪项如果为真,最能支持上述观点:
患者,男性,46岁。半年前因外伤致左股骨中段开放性粉碎性骨折,当时骨折处皮肤坏死,经清创缝合内固定治疗。2个月后局部红肿,原伤口破溃,形成流脓窦道,并有死骨排出1年。其最主要的X线表现为
B.2~4周C.4~6周D.1~5年E.3月~10年淋病的潜伏期
甲公司系增值税一般纳税人,适用的增值税税率为17%,适用的所得税税率为25%,按净利润的10%计提法定盈余公积。甲公司2016年度财务报告批准报出日为2017年3月5日,2016年度所得税汇算清缴于2017年4月30日完成,预计未来期间能够取得足够的应纳
中国古代皇族、皇戚的称呼。
依据材料,回答问题【材料】针对“微粒的运动——烧杯中的溶液为什么变红”,某教师创设如下问题情境:教师在课堂上演示下述实验。向烧杯A中加入20mL蒸馏水,滴入2~3滴酚酞试剂,让每个同学都看到溶液是无色的。向烧杯B中加入10mL浓氨水。用一个大烧杯把A
司法机关依法独立行使职权,这项原则的含义之一是:人民法院、人民检察院依法独立行使自己的职权,不受()。
3因为实对称矩阵不同特征值对应的特征向量正交,所以有6+3a+3—6a=0,a=3.
WemetanoldfriendinNewYork______ourexpectation.Shewavedatus______thestreetwhenshesawus.
最新回复
(
0
)