首页
登录
职称英语
There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, esp
There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, esp
游客
2024-02-06
54
管理
问题
There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, especially one of the over-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 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% . Industrial pollution in our town had supposedly turned students into living science experiments breathing in a laboratory’s worth of heavy metals like manganese(锰), chromium(铬)and nickel(镍)each day. This in 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 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 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(地质断层)for more than 12 years, I still haven’t bolted our bookcases to the living room wall. [br] The investigation by USA Today revealed that______.
选项
A、heavy metals in lab tests threaten children’ s health in Berkeley
B、parents in Berkeley are over worried about cancer risks their kids may face
C、the air around Berkeley’ s school campuses is polluted
D、berkeley residents are quite contented with their surroundings
答案
C
解析
细节题。USA Today的调查结果显示,air quality around the nation’s schoolssingled out those in the smugly green village of Berkeley,Calif.,as being among theworst in the country,即空气污染严重,故选C。
转载请注明原文地址:http://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3427215.html
相关试题推荐
Students’pressuresometimescomesfromtheirparents.Mostparentsarewell
Students’pressuresometimescomesfromtheirparents.Mostparentsarewell
Students’pressuresometimescomesfromtheirparents.Mostparentsarewell
Students’pressuresometimescomesfromtheirparents.Mostparentsarewell
Students’pressuresometimescomesfromtheirparents.Mostparentsarewell
John’ssuccesshasnothingtodowithgoodluck.Itisyearsofhardworkthat__
Tomcoulddonothing______(除了向母亲承认他错了).butadmittohismotherthathewaswrong
Thebenefitsofquittingsmoking—reducedriskofcancerandmanyotherhealt
Thebenefitsofquittingsmoking—reducedriskofcancerandmanyotherhealt
Thebenefitsofquittingsmoking—reducedriskofcancerandmanyotherhealt
随机试题
Sydneyisthecapitalcityof______.A、NewSouthWalesB、QueenslandC、SouthAust
以下哪项不属于施工设备渐发性故障的特点()。A.故障发生的时间一般在零部件有效
重度指水泥在自然状态下单位体积的重量,分为()。A.特殊状态下的重度 B
治疗内伤发热阴虚发热证,首选的方剂是A、补中益气汤 B、青蒿鳖甲汤 C、
有些药材煎熬时,易糊化,需切成A.薄片 B.丝 C.块 D.厚片 E.极
慢性宫颈炎的主要症状是()。A.不孕 B.腰骶痛 C.脓性分泌物 D.性
患者男,60岁。心窝部饥饿性疼痛十余年,近年来发作频繁,疼痛规律消失,经胃镜证实
某饭店2012年营业收入为2000万元,营业成本为1580万元,净利为180万元
“重大税收违法失信主体”是指有下列情形之一的纳税人、扣缴义务人或者其他涉税当事人
在下列权利中能够体现患者自主权的是A.基本的医疗权 B.因病获得休息权 C.
最新回复
(
0
)