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  3. In his first term, Mayor Michael Bloomberg mapped out a fair plan to get rid of 11,000 tons of New York City garbage every day.

In his first term, Mayor Michael Bloomberg mapped out a fair plan to get rid of 11,000 tons of New York City garbage every day.

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问题     In his first term, Mayor Michael Bloomberg mapped out a fair plan to get rid of 11,000 tons of New York City garbage every day. The complex proposal was designed to make each district take care of its own trash. It was also supposed to help limit noisy garbage trucks going long distances through the city to reach marine barges(驳船), railways or out-of-state trash facilities.
    Nobody wanted these new garbage transfer stations in their neighborhood, even with promises of new high-tech, low-smell facilities. There are already stations in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, most of them in lower-income communities. Only one area of the city—the Upper East Side of Manhattan—has refused to accept a trash facility. The city should not give in to local resistance.
    It is time for residents in that neighborhood to accept a share of the city’s garbage problem. The city should build a modern, environmentally sound facility at 91st Street to transfer trash from Manhattan to barges on the East River. That trash, estimated at up to 1,800 tons a day, would then go by barge to other states.
    Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said last week that the city has had to fight off "lawsuit after lawsuit" with "every useless argument under the sun" from those opposing the 91st Street facility. Those delays have helped push the cost for building the station from $ 125 million in 2006 to about $ 226 million now.
    An earlier trash station at that site, which was closed in 1999, was badly designed so that trucks idled along York Avenue. The new facility, Mr. Holloway said, has been designed to reduce the congestion problem with longer ramps(匝道)leading to the facility, which sits on the eastern side of Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. The plans also call for higher noise-blocking walls along the ramps.
    This terminal is an essential part of the city’s 20-year waste management plan. John Doherty, the sanitation(环境卫生)commissioner, told critics at a hearing last week, " We will not entertain any changes to what is a fair and thoughtful, district-based approach that was founded on the principles of environmental equity for all New Yorkers. "
    Environmental equity, in this case, means that the Upper East Side of Manhattan has to do its part.
The plan worked out by Mayor Michael Bloomberg will______.
选项 A、make garbage trucks no longer necessary
B、reduce the amount of trash in the city
C、need more out-of-state trash facilities
D、make each district deal with its own trash
答案D
解析 事实细节题。本题考查纽约市长提出的方案要达到的效果。由定位句可知，这个方案的目的在于让每个区自己处理垃圾。同时按照预期，它还有助于限制那些发出巨大噪音的垃圾车为了把垃圾运到驳船、铁路或是州外的垃圾处理厂而在纽约市区长途运行，因此D)“使每个区处理自己的垃圾”为本题答案。A)“使垃圾车不再被需要”不符合原文，故排除；B)“减少这个城市的垃圾量”和C)“需要更多的州外垃圾处理厂”没有在原文中体现，故排除。
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