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Homeland security is a strange beast. Governments will happily spend billions of dollars fighting foreign wars and making the li
Homeland security is a strange beast. Governments will happily spend billions of dollars fighting foreign wars and making the li
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2016-03-21
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问题
Homeland security is a strange beast. Governments will happily spend billions of dollars fighting foreign wars and making the lives of travellers miserable with layer upon layer of security at airports. Yet, as Britain’s farmers have recently discovered, those same governments will also happily squeeze basic flood defence. What, it is worth considering, might be done if military-sized budgets were to be deployed against natural, as well as human threats?
If an odd couple of trillion dollars were hanging around in some Treasury official’s back pocket, Mark Jacobson of Stanford University has a suggestion about how to spend them. He would use them to build a specially designed wind farm off the coast of Louisiana, to protect New Orleans and its neighbours from hurricanes. Katrina, after all, killed 1,833 people. That is more than 60% of the number who died in the attacks of September 11th 2001. More trillions would bring more defence: all along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, if required.
Dr. Jacobson’s calculations, which he describes in Nature Climate Change, depend on a clear understanding of how hurricanes work. Turbines would steal energy from them, of course, which would make them somewhat less destructive. But that would not be enough to have a big effect. However, by extracting this energy from the winds in a storm’s leading edge, serried rows of turbines hundreds of kilometres long would also calm the water over which the hurricane’s eye—its driving force—subsequently passed.
This turns out to be crucial. Rough water feeds a hurricane, paradoxically, by creating friction between air and sea which slows down the winds circulating around the storm’s eye. This lets the air in those winds ascend the eyewall more easily, rather than just going around in circles. It is this ascent, which sucks yet more air into the cyclone, that powers the storm.
Calming the waters before a hurricane with windmills could thus, according to Dr. Jacobson’s calculations, lower its maximum wind speed by 50- 80%. It would also reduce the amount of water surging onto the land, which is the principal cause of destruction, by as much as 80%. A beast so tamed would do far less harm. And, as a bonus, when the turbines were not calming hurricanes, they could pay part of their way by generating electricity.
It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that______.
选项
A、Mark Jacobson’s suggestion is infeasible
B、trillions of dollars will be spent on defence
C、defence against natural threats is extremely vital
D、Katrina is the most serious disaster in American history
答案
C
解析
根据题干定位到第二段。首先,[A]项的Mark Jacobson对应第二行,原文提到他的suggestion“建议”,但并没有说他的建议是infeasible“不可行的”,该词属于无中生有,故该项错误。选项[B]中的trillions of dollars对应首句If an odd couple of trillion dollars…但是if一词告诉我们这只是一种假设,文章并没有提到这笔钱将花在防御灾害上面,故也属于无中生有,该项错误。选项[C]defence against natural threats is extremely vital“抵御自然灾害很重要”在该段的第三、四行有所暗示,原文提到:...to protect New Orleans and its neighbours from hurricanes.Katrina,after all,killed 1,833 people.由此可见该项的推理是正确的。而[D]项的most serious disaster in American history原文也未提到,故该项错误。综上,本题答案为[C]。
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