首页
登录
职称英语
The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothin
The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothin
游客
2024-02-15
4
管理
问题
The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing I could ever have imagined for me or my children. We are living in an environmental crisis, an air-pollution emergency of unprecedented severity. What it really means is that just to breathe here is to play a dangerous game with your health.
As parents, what terrorizes us most are reports that children are at higher risk because they breathe more times per minute. What more can we do to protect them and ourselves? Our pediatrician’s medical recommendation was simple, abandon the city permanently. We are foreigners and we are among the small minority that can afford to leave. We are here because of my husband’s work. We are fascinated by Mexico its history and rich culture. We know that for us, this is a temporary danger. However, we cannot stand for much longer the fear we feel for our boys. We cannot stop them from breathing.
But for millions, there is no choice. Their lives, their jobs, their Futures depend on being here. Thousands of Mexicans arrive each day in this city, desperate for economic opportunities. Thousands more are born here each day. Entire families work in the streets and practically, live there. It is a familiar sight: as parents hawk goods at stoplights, their children play in the grassy highway dividers, breathing exhaust fumes. I feel guilty complaining about my personal situation; we won’t be here long enough for our children to form the impression that skies are colored only gray.
And yet the government cannot do what it must to end this problem. For any country especially a developing Third World economy like Mexico’s, the idea of barring from the capital city enough cars, closing enough factories and spending the necessary billions on public transportation is simply not an option. So when things get bad, as in the current emergency, Mexico takes half measure a prohibiting some more cars from circulating stopping some factories from producing that even its own officials concede aren’t adequate.
The word "emergency" implies the unusual. But when daily life itself is an emergency the concept loses its meaning. It is human nature to try to adapt to that which we cannot change. Or to mislead ourselves into believing we can adapt. [br] The word "hawk" (Paragraph 3) most probably means ______.
选项
A、transport
B、sell
C、race
D、deliver
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3451912.html
相关试题推荐
Thechildrenwanttodo______.(只想看电视)nothingbutwatchtelevisionnothingbut表示肯
【B1】[br]【B9】A、minimumB、muchC、littleD、nothingB逻辑分析题。一件具有讽刺意味的事情总会给人留下很多的思考。
Moresurprising,perhaps,thanthecurrentdifficultiesoftraditionalmarri
Moresurprising,perhaps,thanthecurrentdifficultiesoftraditionalmarri
Moresurprising,perhaps,thanthecurrentdifficultiesoftraditionalmarri
Forsomeeducators,thereisnothingwrongwithfunandgames.Agroupcalle
Forsomeeducators,thereisnothingwrongwithfunandgames.Agroupcalle
Forsomeeducators,thereisnothingwrongwithfunandgames.Agroupcalle
Forsomeeducators,thereisnothingwrongwithfunandgames.Agroupcalle
Acoeducational(男女合校的)schoolofferschildrennothinglessthanatruevers
随机试题
Theconceptofobtainingfreshwaterfromicebergsthataretowedtopopulat
在1978年以前,中国经济中农业基础很差,轻工业和重工业的比例很不均衡。自1978年起,中国采取了一系列政策,优先考虑发展轻工业,加强基础工业和设备的建
肺心病病人,测血气:pH7.25,PaO5.3kPa(40mmHg),PaCO9
以下检查,最有助于对颅内肿瘤进行定位和定性诊断的是A.X线检查,包括头颅平片、脑
颅内压增高的临床表现( )。A.头痛 B.呕吐 C.视神经乳头水肿 D.
粪便检查,可作为细菌性痢疾诊断指标的细胞是A.中性粒细胞 B.淋巴细胞 C.
20世纪,我国提出了“实现工业、农业、科学技术和国防四个现代化”。当前,我国的“
投资人的风险偏好是影响其风险承受能力的重要因素。()
压实黏土防渗层施工应符合的要求不包括( )。A.应主要采用无振动的羊足振分层压实
下列不属于《民事诉讼》证据种类的是()。A.书证 B.视听资料 C.勘验笔录
最新回复
(
0
)