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The energy crisis, which is being felt around the world, has dramatized how the careless use of the earth’s resources has brough

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问题     The energy crisis, which is being felt around the world, has dramatized how the careless use of the earth’s resources has brought the whole world to the brink of disaster. The over-development of motor transport, with its 【21】______ of more cars, more highways, more pollution, more suburbs, more commuting, has 【22】______ to the near-destruction of our cities, and the pollution not only of 【23】______ air, but also the earth’s atmosphere. The disaster has arrived in the 【24】______ of the energy crisis.
   Our present 【25】______ is unlike war, revolution or depression. It’s also unlike the great natural disasters of the past. Worldwide resources 【26】______ and energy use have brought us to a state 【27】______ long-range planning is essential. What we need is not a continuation of our present serious state, which 【28】______ the future of our country, our children, and our earth, 【29】______ a movement forward to a new norm in order to work rapidly and effectively on planetary problems.
   This country has been falling back under the continuing exposures of loss of 【30】______ . There is a strong demand for moral revival and 【31】______ some devotion that is vast enough and yet 【32】______ enough to enlist the devotion of all. In the past 【33】______ has been only in a war in 【34】______ of their own country that any people have been able to 【35】______ themselves wholeheartedly.
   This is the first time that we have been asked to defend ourselves and what we hold dear in 【36】______ with all the other inhabitants of this planet, who 【37】______ us the same endangered air and the same endangered oceans. There is a 【38】______ need to reassess our present course, and to 【39】______ new methods through which the world can survive. This is a priceless 【40】______ .
【27】
选项 A、which
B、why
C、when
D、where
答案D
解析 先行词是state“情况，状态”，空格后是个完整的句子，因此从句中缺少的是副词，所以首先排除关系代词which。why的先行词通常为reason，when的先行词通常是表示时间的词。因此选where，表示“在这种状态下”。本句意为“世界范围内资源的开发和能源的消耗把我们带入这样一种情形，在这种情形下长远规划是必要的”。
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