首页
登录
职称英语
"The world’s environment is surprisingly healthy. Discuss." If that were ail
"The world’s environment is surprisingly healthy. Discuss." If that were ail
游客
2023-07-30
64
管理
问题
"The world’s environment is surprisingly healthy. Discuss." If that were ail examination topic, most students would tear it apart, offering a long list of complaints: from local smog (烟雾) to global climate change, from the felling (砍伐) of forests to the extinction of species. The list would largely be accurate, the concern legitimate. Yet the students who should be given the highest marks would actually be those who agreed with the statement. The surprise is how good things are, not how bad.
After all, the world’s population has more than tripled during this century, and world output has risen hugely, so you would expect the earth itself to have been affected. Indeed, if people lived, consumed and produced things in the same way as they did in 1900 (or 1950, or indeed 1980), the world by now would be a pretty disgusting place: smelly, dirty, toxic and dangerous.
But they don’t. The reasons why they don’t, and why the environment has not been ruined, have to do with prices, technological innovation, social change and government regulation in response to popular pressure. That is why today’s environmental problems in the poor countries ought, in principle, to be solvable.
Raw materials have not run out, and show no sign of doing so. Logically, one day they must: the planet is a finite place. Yet it is also very big, and man is very ingenious (有发明天才的). What has happened is that every time a material seems to be running short, the price has risen and, in response, people have looked for new sources of supply, tried to find ways to use less of the material, or looked for a new substitute. For this reason prices for energy and for minerals have fallen in real terms during the century. The same is true for food. Prices fluctuate, in response to harvests, natural disasters and political instability; and when they rise, it takes some time before new sources of supply become available. But they always do, assisted by new farming and crop technology. The longterm trend has been downwards.
It is where prices and markets do not operate properly that this benign (良性的) trend begins to stumble, and the genuine problems arise. Markets cannot always keep the environment healthy. If no one owns the resource concerned, no one has an interest in conserving it or festering it: fish is the best example of this. [br] Fish resources are diminishing because ______.
选项
A、no new substitutes can be found in large quantities
B、they are not owned by any particular entity(实体)
C、improper methods of fishing have ruined the fishing grounds
D、water pollution is extremely serious
答案
B
解析
细节推理题。本题考查的是具体事例与要说明观点之间的关系。文章最后一句“If no one owns the resource concerned, no one has an interest in conserving it or fostering it, fish is the best example of this.”说明,鱼源变少的原因应该是它们不为任何实体所拥有,即选项B)。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2882792.html
相关试题推荐
【B1】[br]【B7】A、atmosphereB、conditionsC、circumstanceD、environmentB固定搭配题。这句的意
【B1】[br]【B19】A、PsychologicalB、EnvironmentalC、EssentialD、PhysicalC上句提到遗传因素,
[originaltext]Ourenvironmentisbeingpollutedfasterthannatureandman’spr
[originaltext]Ourenvironmentisbeingpollutedfasterthannatureandman’spr
[originaltext]Iamgoingtoworkinatotallynewenvironment.I’llhaveto
[originaltext]Iamgoingtoworkinatotallynewenvironment.I’llhaveto
[originaltext]Iamgoingtoworkinatotallynewenvironment.I’llhaveto
[originaltext]Iamgoingtoworkinatotallynewenvironment.I’llhaveto
Lastyearalargeamountofmoney__________(花在环境保护上).wasspentonenvironmental
[originaltext]WorldEnvironmentDaywasestablishedbytheUnitedNationsGe
随机试题
WhydidthemangotoSeychelles?[br][originaltext]Chris:I’veheardthatyo
安全检查的内容是()。A.查思想 B.查管理和查隐患 C.查方案 D.查
下列属于的发育阶段之一的是A.尖牙 B.组牙 C.开 D.替牙 E.正中
金融资产管理公司作为以经营不良资产为主要业务的银行金融机构,一般金融机构所具有的
AA BB CC DD
期货公司董事、监事和高级管理人员在任职期间擅离职守,造成严重后果的,中国证监会及
年轻恒牙牙髓组织特点中正确的是A、髓腔大,组织疏松,纤维成分多,细胞成分少 B
公共题干: “集装箱号”栏应填( ). A.YMLU4456789(1
某公司决定通过内部招募来填补职位空缺,适用的方法是()。A.发布媒体广告 B
火力发电厂采用柴油发电机作交流保安电源时,需对柴油机1h的负载能力(1.1px进
最新回复
(
0
)