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People are no longer so naive as to believe whatever vested interests say. It is only necessary to look at smoking to learn much
People are no longer so naive as to believe whatever vested interests say. It is only necessary to look at smoking to learn much
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2013-01-28
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People are no longer so naive as to believe whatever vested interests say. It is only necessary to look at smoking to learn much about the current campaign of disinformation when it comes to fossil fuels and greenhouse gases. The opposition will then occupy the same place in public perception as that reserved for the early anti-smoking lobbies.
Remember that those who warned of the health dangers of smoking have been proven prescient. Not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer or emphysema, not every exposure to second-hand smoke proves lethal. But the early warnings have been proven correct enough that smart people no longer smoke and smoking in public now no longer has all the social acceptability.
My point is simple. The analogy between the early warnings of the dangers of smoking and the early warning of the danger of global warming is apt. Both are following the same path of anger and denial from the people who benefit from lax regulations and cooperative governments.
No, I don’t believe everyone has to bike to work, or turn down the thermostat to 15. But I do believe it would be sheer stupidity to ignore the warnings of global warming and the dangers inherent in u-sing fossil fuel just because a coalition of automakers and vested interests characterize worries as needless and pathetic. It only makes sense to encourage the development of fuel-efficient transportation and alternative fuels toil and gas. We can move ourselves in the direction of survival, instead of acting like the dinosaurs.
Consider a few generations ago, the suggestion that the use of coal was polluting the air and presenting a health danger was greeted with hoots of derision from the coal companies, somewhat like the sounds coming out of governments dependent on oil and gas revenues and royalties. Rather than work toward replacement fuels, the coal mines and miners were just left to wither away and die. Government has a choice be part of the problem, or part of the solution. In the end, only those who are part of the solution will survive, as the coal miners discovered.
The author believes that those warning about the dangers of global warming______.
选项
A、should be paid more attention to
B、are over-hyping the situation
C、should not cooperate with the government
D、are like those warning about the dangers of smoking
答案
A
解析
细节题。题干中的“warning about the dangers of global warning”出自文章第三段。第二段提到:那当初警告吸炯有害健康的人被证明是具有先见之明的;第三段指出:把早期吸烟有害的警告同期全球变暖有害的警告进行类比是贴切的;第四段提到:仅仅因为汽车制造商和特权阶级联盟认为担心不必要、不值得就忽视全球变暖的警告,就忽视使用矿物燃料固有的危害,这是非常愚蠢的。这说明:作者认为这些人的观点应该受到重视。A符合题意,为正确选项。B与此意相反;C属于nol given类型;D表述不准确。
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考研英语一
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