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閱讀下列短文,掌握其大意,然后從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)(A、B、C、D)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

  Three Yale University professors agreed in a discussion that the automobile was what one of them called“Public Health Enemy No. 1 in this country.”Besides polluting the air and overcrowding the cities, cars are involved in more than half the disastrous accidents, and they contribute to heart disease“because we don't walk anywhere anymore”, said Dr. H. Richard Weinerman, professor of medicine and public health.

  Speaking of many of these man-made dangers to the automobile, Arthur W. Galston, professor of biology, said it was possible to make a kerosene-burning turbine car that would“l(fā)essen smog by a very large factor.”But he expressed doubt whether Americans were willing to give up moving about the countryside at 90 miles an hour in a large vehicle.“America seems wedded to the motor car--every family has to have at least two, and one has to be a convertible (敞篷汽車) with 300 horsepower,”Professor Galston continued.“Is this the way of life that we choose because we treasure these values?”

  For Professor Sears, part of the blame lies with“a society that regards profit (贏利) as a supreme value, under the illusion that anything that's technically possible is, therefore, morally justified”. Professor Sears also called the country's dependence on its modern automobiles“terrible economics”because of the large horsepower used simply“moving one individual to work.”But he admitted that Americans have painted themselves into a corner by allowing the national economy to become so dependent on the automobile industry.

  “The solution”, Dr. Weinerman said,“is not to find a less dangerous fuel but a different system of inner-city transportation. Because of the increasing use of cars, public transportation has been allowed to wither (衰弱) and grow worse, so that if you can't walk to where you want to go, you have to have a car in most cities,”he declared. This, in turn, Dr. Weinerman contended, is responsible for the“arteriosclerosis”(動(dòng)脈硬化) of public roads, for the pollution of the inner city and for the middle-class movement to the suburbs.

1.The main idea of the passage is that _____.

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A.Americans are fond of their cars

B.public transportation in America is well-developed

C.American cars are too fast

D.a(chǎn)utomobiles endanger health

2.It can be inferred from the passage that _____.

[  ]

A.people are more interested in fast automobiles than in their health

B.Americans feel more closely tied to their cars than to their wives

C.kerosene-burning engines would pollute the environment more than gasoline-burning engines do

D.kerosene-burning cars would go faster than gasoline-powered cars

3.In Paragraph 3,Professor Sears implies that _____.

[  ]

A.technology is always good for people

B.technology is not always good for people

C.financial profit is more important than technology advancement

D.American people care about both environment pollution and technological development

4.According to Dr. Weinerman, the solution is that _____.

[  ]

A.public transportation should be improved so that people can become less dependent upon their cars for inner-city transportation

B.people should get rid of their cars and take the bus to work

C.one family should own just one car

D.a(chǎn) fuel less dangerous than gasoline must be found

答案:D;A;C;A
解析:

1D 主旨題。文章第一段第一句話指出,三位耶魯大學(xué)的教授一致認(rèn)為汽車是“本國(guó)公眾健康的頭號(hào)大敵”,隨后作者又指明汽車的使用會(huì)污染空氣、導(dǎo)致交通事故、引發(fā)心臟病等,故答案為D。

2A 推理題。文章第二段前兩句話指出人類有必要生產(chǎn)煤油汽車,但又提出疑問(wèn):人類是否愿意放棄在鄉(xiāng)間以每小時(shí)90英里的速度高速行駛的樂(lè)趣?可見(jiàn),人們對(duì)高速行駛的興趣大于對(duì)健康的關(guān)心,故A為最佳答案。

3C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。綜觀第三段可知,人們認(rèn)為經(jīng)濟(jì)利益更重要。

4A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。文章最后一段提出解決問(wèn)題的辦法,重點(diǎn)強(qiáng)調(diào)改善公共交通是惟一的好辦法,故選A。


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