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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.
What can be inferred from what John Doherty said?
选项 A、All the New Yorkers are equal.
B、Necessary changes can be made.
C、The plan may be reconsidered.
D、No one would enjoy any privilege.
答案D
解析 推理判断题。本题考查约翰·多尔蒂所说的话的含义。定位句指出，这个方案是建立在所有纽约市民享有环境公平的原则上的，那么就意味着每个地方、每个人在这项计划中都是平等的，不允许有人搞特殊，故D)“没有人能享有特权”为本题答案。A)“所有纽约市民都是平等的”意义过于宽泛，故排除；B)“会做一些必要的改变”和C)“这个计划可能会被重新考虑”均与原文不符，故排除。
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