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  3. Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams. Perhaps it is humankind’s long suffering at the mercy o

Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams. Perhaps it is humankind’s long suffering at the mercy o

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问题     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 fascinating. 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 stoops 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 Gzechs, 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.
选项 A、people would be happy if they shut their eyes to reality
B、the blind could be happier than the sighted
C、over-excited people tend to neglect vital things
D、fascination makes people lose their eyesight
答案C
解析 作者在文章首段告诉我们：或许是由于长期遭受旱涝之灾的缘故，人类才会如此迷恋于治水。但这种迷恋所带来的后果是什么呢?这在本段末句可以看到：几个巨型大坝工程其结果有可能弊大于利。根据此意判断：本段第三句中的"fascinated"一词显然是指上文提到的对建坝的迷恋，"blind"一词也与它的表层意思"眼睛失明的"相去甚远，在此指的是因迷恋而产生的"盲目"。故选项"过于激动的人容易忽视关键的事情"为正确答案。
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