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Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams. Per
Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams. Per
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2025-04-02
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Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams. Perhaps it is humankind’s long suffering at the mercy of flood and drought that makes the ideal of forcing the waters to do our bidding so fascination. But to be fascinated is also, sometimes, to be blind. Several giant dam projects threaten to do more harm than good.
The lesson from dams is that big is not always beautiful. It doesn’t help that building a big, powerful dam has become a symbol of achievement for nations and people striving to assert themselves. Egypt’s leadership in the Arab world was cemented by the Aswan High Dam. Turkey’s bid for First World status includes the giant Ataturk Dam.
But big dams tend not to work as intended. The Aswan Dam, for example stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left—all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.
And yet, the myth of controlling the waters persists. This week, in the heart of civilized Europe, Slovaks and Hungarians stopped just short of sending in the troops in their contention over a dam on the Danube. The huge complex will probably have all the usual problems of big dams. But Slovakia is bidding for independence from the Czechs, and now needs a dam to prove itself.
Meanwhile, in India, the World Bank has given the go-ahead to the even more wrong headed Narmada Dam. And the bank has done this even though its advisors say the dam will cause hardship for the powerless and environmental destruction. The benefits are for the powerful, but they are far from guaranteed.
Proper scientific study of the impacts of dams and of the cost and benefits of controlling water can help to resolve these conflicts. Hydroelectric power and flood control and irrigation are possible without building monster dams. But when you are dealing with myths, it is hard to be either proper, or scientific. It is time that the world learned the lessons of Aswan. You don’t need a dam to be saved. [br] In Para. 5, "the powerless" probably refers to ______.
选项
A、areas short of electricity
B、dams without power stations
C、poor countries around India
D、common people in the Narmada Dam area
答案
D
解析
从文章第5段的内容可知,在印度,世界银行已经给那个更离谱的纳尔马达水坝发放了许可证;尽管世界银行的顾问认为那个水坝会给平民百姓带来苦难,会破坏那里的生态环境,但是世界银行还是发放了许可证;这样做是在给那些有权势的人带来好处。据此可知,powerless可能的意思应该与powerful(有权势的人)之意相反,也就是“没有权势的人”,即平民百姓。D项与文章的意思相符,因此D项为正确答案。
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