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The air is polluted. The earth is poisoned. Water is unsafe to drink and rub

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问题     The air is polluted. The earth is poisoned. Water is unsafe to drink and rubbish is burying the civilization that produced it.
    Our environment is being contaminated faster than nature and man’s present efforts can prevent it. Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry. More people and more industry will bring us more motor vehicles, larger cities, and the growing use of man-made materials. This is happening not only in advanced societies but among the developing nations as they become industrialized. Pollution is, in a sense, exported.
    Now many scientists are expressing fears about the possibility of world pollution. Some experts declare that the balance of nature is being so upset that the very survival of humanity is in danger.
    What can explain and solve this growing problem? The fact is that pollution is caused by man—by his greed and his modern way of life. We make "increasing industrialization" our chief aim. For its sake we are willing to sacrifice everything: clean air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. There is a constant flow of people from the countryside into the cities, eager for the benefits of modern society. But as our technological achievements have grown in the last twenty years, so in that time has pollution become a serious problem. The connection is clear.
    Isn’t it time we stopped to ask ourselves where we are going—and why? It reminds one of the story about the airline pilot who told his passengers over the loudspeaker, "I’ve some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we’re making rapid progress at 530 miles per hour. The bad news is that we’re lost and don’t know where we’re going. " The sad fact is that this becomes a true story when applied to our modern society.
Questions: [br] What is the author’s purpose by concluding his article with a story?
选项 A、To show that though we have made great progress in development we lost our direction in the modern society.
B、To illustrate that we are now in the process of flying a plane with a confused pilot driving it.
C、To prove that neither flying a lost plane nor directing the way of a plane is an easy job.
D、To make sure that everybody is the cause of our world pollution through everybody’s making rapid progress.
答案 A
解析 第5题指出作者用一个故事来结束了全文的目的是什么。首先，我们应该采用意群式或研究式阅读方法将最后一自然段仔细阅读一下。最后一段指出，难道不是到了我们该停下来问问我们自己我们的目标是什么，为什么要这么做的时候了吗?这使我们想到了一个故事：一个飞行员通过扩音器对他的乘客们说：“我有一个好消息要告诉大家，还有一个坏消息也要告诉大家。好消息是我们现在飞行速度提高到了530英里／小时，坏消息是我们迷失方向了，我们不知道我们正向何处飞行。”言外之意是人类在现代社会里取得了很大的进步，但我们也不知道要向何种目标发展，为什么这么发展，即人类在现代社会中取得进步的同时也迷失了自己。所以本题的正确答案是A。
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