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  3. In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

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问题 In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、D、E、F、G……) to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are several extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. (10 points)

    At Yale University, some ten students live off campus in a cooperative home they call the Green House. (41)______. Late at night, they drive to the store and quietly jump into its car-sized dumpster, picking out unopened packages of still fresh food. They find milk, eggs, bread and cookies, chocolate, soup, vegetables, even frozen pizzas and soymilk. Not only are most Green House residents vegetarian, but they are also moderate freegans, meaning that they eat mainly what they can get for free. These students, of course, are trying to leave as small an "ecological footprint" as possible.
    (42)______. Across America other devout environmentalists tire "off the grid", building shacks in the wilderness without running water or electricity. Frustrated with environmental destruction and waste, they have renounced the system that fosters and perpetuates it. Such ascetic anti-consumerism may be the most dramatic side of environmentalism, and it leads to cultural ferment that can set into motion political and economic change. Its practitioners focus on personal sacrifice, hoping that their ideals and asceticism will spread like a religion.
    (43)______. Our political and economic systems are deeply immature. Environmentalists need m spend just as much energy organizing political and economic environmentalism. Also, old-fashioned environmentalism often assumes that business is opposed to environmental protection. In fact, thousands of US companies are discovering, often with the help of energy consultants, how much money they have to stand from becoming environmentally efficient: saving energy and recycling within industry. The recent book Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawkenetal now translated into Chinese, should get some of the credit for bringing about this transformation in attitudes.
    Paradoxically, the US is both the birthplace of global environmentalism and the world’s biggest environmental spender. Romanticism, the European and American literary and artistic movement that found God in the wilderness, had a strong long term impact on American thinking, starting in the middle third of the 19th century. In particular, renewed attention to the essays of Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) helped launch modern environmentalism a century after his death. (44)______. Why the discrepancy?
Most environmental damage cannot be boiled down to the choices made by individuals. Most environmental damage cannot be boiled down to the choices made by individuals. Rather, individuals are locked into a system in which heavy industry commits the majority of ecological crimes, buttressed by an economic system that squanders natural resources. The government gives away mining rights and opens public forests to loggers practically for free—and big business spends millions of dollars to make sure politicians keep on doing so. (45)______. For many environmental problems, the solution is organized political pressure and entrepreneurial innovation.

A. At times, the moral conviction and worldview of the Green House appear as all encompassing as a religious faith. Green House inmates live in the most environmentally "pious" way one could conceive of in the city.
B. But effective environmentalism requires more than words, more than cultural change. It requires legal and economic reform. It demands historically unprecedented policies incorporating the value of cherished natural resources in market calculations. It calls for new organizations and entrepreneurial commitment. Anyone have any ideas?
C. But one drawback of focusing environmentalist energy on abstaining from personal consumption is that such an approach can distract people from the larger muses of environmental destruction, which cannot be affected by individual choices to consume or not to consume.
D. Other government subsidies support several filthy industries. While the government pays for new freeways, thus subsidizing automobiles, it ignores trains and bus networks. Polluters don’t pay the real cost of externalities such as toxic waste and air and water pollution.
E. They recycle cans, bottles and paper meticulously, sorting them into the bins collected by municipal trucks in American cities. They reuse "grey water", meaning that they plug the drain when they shower and then use buckets to flush the toilet with the old soapy water. To prevent food from going to waste, they even get most of their groceries out of the trash of an upscale grocery store.
F. We should recall, however, that environmentalists have often been fobbed off with token gestures, idle talk and unimplemented treaties. Even President Bush, who has the worst environmental record of any American president so far, has mastered the art of (largely empty) environmentalist rhetoric.
G. Yet today America, with only 596 of the world’s population, produces 2496 of global carbon dioxide emissions. The US, like many other rich countries, has cleaned up its air and water, but it is still the biggest contributor to the greatest environmental threat ever global climate change.

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答案D
解析 本段开头就指出环境问题住主要是政府管理体制问题：实际上，多数环境方面的毁坏并不能归罪于人们个人的选择，反之，我们每个人都被锁定在某个体系中，重工业在这个体系中对生态犯下了主要罪行，但它们受到浪费自然资源的经济制度的扶持。接下来，作者用具体事例对这个主旨加以解释说明：美国政府给予公司采矿的权力，将国家森林向伐木业开放，实际上都是免费的。而这些大公司又花数百万美元搞公关，来确保立法的政治家们继续这种政策。在该段结尾处，作者总结到：对于很多环境问题，解决的办法在于组织机构的政治压力和企业变革。因此可知本题处内容也是与政府体制相关，选项D中的Other governments与前一句中的The government正好相呼应，故是本题答案。该选项意为：其他政府补贴还支持好几种污染行业。当政府拨款兴建新的高速公路的时候，就是在补贴汽车工业，而忽视了铁路和公交系统。造成污染的企业并没有对产生有毒废物以及空气、水的污染等方面付出真正的代价。
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