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A useful definition of an air pollutant is a compound added directly or indi
A useful definition of an air pollutant is a compound added directly or indi
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2023-07-07
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A useful definition of an air pollutant is a compound added directly or indirectly by humans to the atmosphere in such quantities as to affect humans, animals, vegetation, or material adversely(有害地). Air pollution requires a very flexible definition that permits continuous change. When the first air pollution laws were established in England in the fourteenth century, air pollutants were limited to compounds that could be seen or smelled—a far cry(悬殊的差别)from the extensive list of harmful substances known today. As technology has developed and knowledge of the health aspects of various chemicals has increased, the list of air pollutants has lengthened. In the future, even water vapor(水蒸气)might be considered an air pollutant under certain conditions.
Many of the more important air pollutants, such as sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides, are found in nature. As the Earth developed, the concentrations(浓度)of these pollutants were altered by various chemical reactions; they became components in biogeochemical(生物地球化学的)cycles. These serve as an air purification scheme by allowing the compounds to move from the air to the water or soil. On a global basis, nature’s output of these compounds dwarfs that resulting from human activities. However, human production usually occurs in a localized area, such as a city.
In this localized region, human output may be dominant and may temporarily overload the natural purification scheme of the cycles. The result is an increased concentration of noxious(有害的)chemicals in the air. The concentrations at which the adverse effects appear will be greater than the concentrations that the pollutants would have in the absence of human activities. The actual concentration need not be large for a substance to be a pollutant; in fact the numerical value tells us little until we know how much of an increase this represents over the concentration that would occur naturally in the area. For example, sulfur dioxide has detectable health effects at 0.08 parts per million(ppm), which is about 400 times its natural level. Carbon monoxide, however, has a natural level of 0.1 ppm and is not usually a pollutant until its level reaches about 15 ppm. [br] According to the passage, the numerical value of the concentration level of a substance is only useful if
选项
A、the other substances in the area are known
B、it is a localized area
C、it can be calculated quickly
D、the naturally occurring level is also known
答案
D
解析
原文提到:“事实上,数值能告诉我们的信息很少,除非我们知道这意味着比该区域自然产生的浓度增加了多少。”这与D项的表述吻合。
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