首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, especially one of the hyper-educated, eco-conscious typ
There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, especially one of the hyper-educated, eco-conscious typ
admin
2013-03-09
75
问题
There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, especially one of the hyper-educated, eco-conscious type. So you can imagine the reaction when a recent USA Today investigation of air quality around the nation’s schools singled out those in the smugly(自鸣得意地) green village of Berkeley, Calif., as being among the worst in the country; The city’s public high school, as well as a number of daycare centers, preschools, elementary and middle schools, fell in the lowest 10 percent. Industrial pollution in our town had supposedly turned students into living science experiments breathing in a laboratory’s worth of manganese, chromium and nickel each day. This is a city that requires school cafeterias to serve organic meals. Great, I thought, organic lunch, toxic campus.
Since December, when the report came out, the mayor, neighborhood activists(活跃分子) and various parent-teacher associations have engaged in a fierce battle over its validity: over the guilt of the steel-casting factory on the western edge of town, over union jobs versus children’s health and over what, if anything, ought to be done. With all sides presenting their own experts armed with conflicting scientific studies, whom should parents believe? Is there truly a threat here, we asked one another as we dropped off our kids, and if so, how great is it? And how does it compare with the other, seemingly perpetual health scares we confront, like panic over lead in synthetic athletic fields? Rather than just another weird episode in the town that brought you protesting environmentalists, this latest drama is a trial for how today’s parents perceive risk, how we try to keep our kids safe— whether it’s possible to keep them safe—in what feels like an increasingly threatening world. It raises the question of what, in our time, "safe" could even mean.
"There’s no way around the uncertainty", says Kimberly Thompson, president of Kid Risk, a nonprofit group that studies children’s health. "That means your choices can matter, but it also means you aren’t going to know if they do". A 2004 report in the journal Pediatrics explained that nervous parents have more to fear from fire, car accidents and drowning than from toxic chemical exposure. To which I say: well, obviously. But such concrete hazards are beside the point. It’s the dangers parents can’t—and may never—quantify that occur all of a sudden. That’s why I’ve rid my cupboard of microwave food packed in bags coated with a potential cancer-causing substance, but although I’ve lived blocks from a major fault line(抵制断层) for more than 12 years, I still haven’t bolted our bookcases to the living room wall.
选项
A、Parents in Berkeley are over-sensitive to cancer risks their kids face.
B、The air quality around Berkeley’s school campuses is poor.
C、Berkeley residents are quite contented with their surroundings.
D、Heavy metals in lab tests threaten, children’s health in Berkeley.
答案
B
解析
根据题于关键词investigation,USA Today定位到原文首段第二句。由…singled out those in the smugly green village of Berkeley,Calif.,as being among the worst in the country.由此可知,伯克利校园的空气质量很差。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/xqI7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Youngsuperstars.B、Establishedscholars.C、Successfulacademics.D、Mastersofacertainfield.A事实细节题。本文开头指出.研究发现,要想成功不应师从泰斗,
A、Oneofherteachersrecommendedhertodoit.B、Oneofherfriendsintroducedittoher.C、Shegotitthroughanoticenearth
He______themudwithastick,lookingfortheringhehaddropped.
Recentchangesinclimatemay______thatglobalwarmingisstartingtohaveaneffect.
Thesolution,ifthatisthecase,istoinstallapressure-reducing______onthewatersystem.
A、Georgedeservesajobofhigherincome.B、Georgeispromotedasmarketingmanager.C、Georgeliesaboutthereasonwhyheleft
A、Ithasbeenthebestsellerforweeks.B、Itadvisespeopletochangethemselves.C、Itisbeingsoldataverylowprice.D、Itd
A、Shehasbeenathome.B、Thenewmanagerwasnotintheoffice.C、Shehasn’ttalkedwiththenewmanageryet.D、Shedidn’twant
Overthepastdecade,thousandsofpatentshavebeengrantedforwhatarecalledbusinessmethods.Amazon.comreceivedonefori
A、Tsunamisarecausedbyunderwaterearthquakes.B、Earthquakesofaboutmagnitude6.75ontheRichterscalewillcausetsunamis.
随机试题
最可能的诊断是根据目前病例之诊断,主要治疗应包括
皮肤的多数相邻毛囊和皮脂腺的急性化脓性炎症称
某投资项目预计建成后的年固定成本为46万元,每件产品估计售价为56元,单位产品变动成本为25元,销售税率为10%。则该项目盈亏平衡点的产量为()件。
原水通过滤池时,()将水中悬浮物粘附截留。
能管理计算机的硬件设备并使得应用软件能方便、高效率地使用这些设备的是()。
新增会计科目。科目编码:1402一01科目名称:甲材料
乙公司为居民企业,主要从事货物生产和销售,2017年有关生产经营隋况如下:(1)取得不含税销售收入2500万元,销售成本1343万元;(2)发生销售费用670万元(其中广告费420万元);管理费用400万元(其中业务招待费15万元,新产品研究开发费用1
柯尔伯格道德判断发展的最高阶段是【】
一些精神疾病可以理解为不同的思考方式。米开朗琪罗、贝多芬、凡.高等许多名人或多或少有这样的特性。他们的艺术才华在一定程度上源于他们的精神紊乱,就像亚里士多德曾说过的那样,伟大的天才无不带有一丝疯狂。日前,一项针对数十万人进行的研究表明,精神分裂和躁郁症等疾
Forbusinessrelationstocontinuebetweenourtwocompanies,asatisfactory_____mustbereachedandsigned.
最新回复
(
0
)