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  3. The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing I could ever have imagined for me or my children.

The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing I could ever have imagined for me or my children.

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问题     The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing I could ever have imagined for me or my children. We are living in an environmental crisis, an air-pollution emergency of unprecedented severity. What it really means is that just to breathe here is to play a dangerous game with your health.
    As parents, what terrorizes us most are reports that children are at higher risk because they breathe more times per minute. What more can we do to protect them and ourselves? Our pediatrician’s (儿科医师的) medical recommendation was simple：abandon the city permanently. We are foreigners and we are among the small minority that can afford to leave. We are here because of my husband’s work. We are fascinated by Mexico—its history and rich culture. We know that for us, this is a temporary danger. However, we cannot stand for much longer the fear we feel for our boys. We cannot stop them from breathing.
    But for millions, there is no choice. Their lives, their jobs, their futures depend on being here. Thousands of Mexicans arrive each day in this city, desperate for economic opportunities. Thousands more are born here each day. Entire families work in the streets and practically live there. It is a familiar sight; as parents hawk goods at stoplights, their children play in the grassy highway dividers (分线处), breathing exhaust fumes. I feel guilty complaining about my personal situation; we won’t be here long enough for our children to form the impression that skies are colored only gray.
    And yet the government cannot do what it must to end this problem. For any country, especially a developing Third World economy like Mexico’s, the idea of barring from the capital city enough cars, closing enough factories and spending the necessary billions on public transportation is simply not an option. So when things get bad, as in the current emergency, Mexico takes half measures—prohibiting some more cars from circulating, stopping some factories from producing—that even its own officials concede (承认) aren’t adequate.
    The word "emergency" implies the unusual. But when daily life itself is an emergency, the concept loses its meaning. It is human nature to try to adapt to that which we cannot change. Or to mislead ourselves into believing we can adapt.
Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
选项 A、Kids are in greater danger than grown-ups in Mexico City.
B、The author is not a native Mexican.
C、The author’s husband is a pediatrician.
D、The Mexican history and culture appeal to the author.
答案C
解析 本题是一道判断是非题。问下面哪个选项是不正确的。文章第二段指出，作者来墨西哥城是因为丈夫的工作。至于她丈夫的职业，作者并未提到。因此，本题的正确答案应是C“作者的丈夫是位儿科医生”，此说法与文章原文不符。A“在墨西哥城孩子比成人遭受更大的危害”。第二段第一句指出，作为家长，他们最担心的是孩子，因为报告上说，孩子每分钟呼吸次数更多，所遭受的危害更大。B“作者不是墨西哥人”。从文章第二段的第四句和第五句中我们了解到，作者及家人(在墨西哥)是外国人，属于为数不多的随时可以离去的人，来墨西哥城是因为丈夫的工作。墨西哥——它的历史和丰富的文化对他们很有吸引力，但是，他们知道，这里存在的危害对他们来说是暂时的，然而，他们为孩子的健康担忧，对此很难忍受较长时问——他们毕竟不能不让孩子们呼吸。D“墨西哥的历史和文化吸引着作者”。参见B项解释。
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