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  3. The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing I could ever have imagined for me or my children.

The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing I could ever have imagined for me or my children.

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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 (儿科医师的) 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 (分线处), 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 measures—prohibiting some more cars from circulating, stopping some factories from producing—that even its own officials concede (承认) 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.
The purpose of the passage is to______.
选项 A、describe the harmful air pollution
B、explain the way to prevent air pollution
C、show the worries about the air pollution
D、recommend a method to avoid air pollution
答案C
解析 本题问本文的写作目的是什么。通读全文内容，作者在本文表达了对墨西哥城目前严重的空气污染状况的忧虑。在最后一段作者总结说，“紧急情况”这个词本来的意思是出现了不同寻常、需要尽快解决的问题。但是，当日常生活本身已成为一种“紧急情况”时，这个概念就没有意义了。作者的意思是，严重的空气污染对墨西哥城市民来说不是偶然的事情，而成为他们习以为常的事情，这时再称之为“紧急情况”，就没有意义了。作者接着说，人的本性使人学会去适应自己无法改变的东西，或欺骗自己，使自己相信自己能适应。这段表达了作者的一种焦虑和无奈的心情。因此，本题的正确答案应是C“表达了作者对空气污染的担忧”。B和D都不对，因为作者在本文中更多地描述了墨西哥城受到严重的空气污染的状况以及自己对这种状况的担忧，并没有提出治理空气污染的办法。
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