首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Drought is a slow emergency. It does not swoop down out of the skies like a tornado or pull the earth apart like an earthquake.
Drought is a slow emergency. It does not swoop down out of the skies like a tornado or pull the earth apart like an earthquake.
admin
2016-01-30
54
问题
Drought is a slow emergency. It does not swoop down out of the skies like a tornado or pull the earth apart like an earthquake. A drought of the kind the Eastern seaboard in the United States is suffering now, the worst of this century in at least four states, is the product not of one summer’s failed rains but of chronic dryness over several seasons—compounded by routine profligacy in our use of water. It is the result of what we have all been taught to call good weather—hot, it is true, but blue skies day after day, mild winters, and little snow. It is also the result of what we have come to call normal water use.
The drought of 1999 has become severe enough to bring about a flurry of administrative actions intended to mitigate its effects on farms, businesses and communities. On Friday, President Clinton ordered to organize timely drought relief. New Jersey’s Governor, Christine Todd Whitman, and the Governors of Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia have all imposed mandatory restrictions on water use. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman has declared West Virginia and 33 counties in 5 surrounding states a disaster area. Meanwhile, the Senate approved $7.4 billion in aid to farmers, to which a drought disaster relief package will need to be added.
This is all to the good, and it may also reconcentrate for a moment, our attention on this nation’s patterns of water usage. Drought is nothing new, and dealing with it does not require radically new ideas. Many organizations have been set up in recent years in order to monitor drought conditions and respond to them as the long-term events they are. According to the National Drought Mitigation Center nearly every encounter with water scarcity leads to a set of recommendations—essentially the ones invoked in a drought emergency—meant to discourage consumption and encourage recycling. But once the rains begin again and controls are lifted, water use tends to rebound to previous levels. Drought dramatizes an epistemological problem that has real, practical effects. There is something almost intangible about the causes of drought, something as abstract and as forceful as fate. It is hard to tie any single drought unequivocally to the solid evidence of global warming, but that too lurks in many people’s minds as the ultimate cause of this summer’s drought.
Against such a grand array of forces, it can be hard to imagine how taking a shorter shower or watering the lawn less frequently makes a difference. But individual action—conserving water—is the basis for collective action, and collectively, the residents of drought-stricken states can make an enormous difference in their own welfare, both now, when stream levels are at record lows, and in the future, when rain returns.
Farmers, of course, are forced to take the weather as it comes. Farms, like many other forms of industry, require water for economic survival, which is exactly what is at risk again this year. The reserves of water in reservoirs have been steadily diminishing. So have the economic reserves of American farmers, who find themselves bringing their products to market, if they survive this dry season at all, at depressed prices. Neither of these problems, drought or farm income can be solved with a sudden flurry of attention.
They require long-term commitment and the changing of habits that are so persistent we have come to call them normal.
The author most probably agrees that the recommendations against drought are______by the people.
选项
A、strongly supported
B、only temporarily adopted
C、considered as ineffective
D、not regarded as new ideas
答案
B
解析
细节推断题。根据题干关键词recommendations定位到原文第三段第四句。可以推断出人们只是在面临a drought emergency时会节约用水,也就是说,人们只会暂时采用节水的建议,雨季来临,用水量就会恢复如前了。故答案为B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/w1GO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Communicatingorallyinvolvesmorethanreadingortalking:gesture,posture,movementsmayallbe______toit.
(复旦大学2011年试题)Aconsiderableamountofmedicalresearchisaimedatidentifyingriskfactorsfordisease.Therationalebehi
(中国矿业大学2007年试题)TheIndiansrisesoonasitislight,thechildrenrundowntotherivertoswim,thewomangotothecreek
Ourcountryhadmadegreateffortstopromotethefamily-planningpolicy,but______thebirthrateisgettinghigherandhigher.(
(上海理工大学2006年试题)Inatelephonesurveyofmorethan2,000adults,21%saidtheybelievedthesunrevolved(旋转)aroundtheearth
(四川大学2010年试题)Youprobablyknowthatit’sbetterforbothyouandtheenvironmentifyoubuyanorganictomatoinsteadofon
Thetownplanningcommissionsaidthattheirfinancialoutlookforthenextyearwasoptimistic.Theyexpectincreasedtax______
ThePresident______thepublicthattaxeswouldnotbeincreasedaftertheelection.
Ininternationalbankingtoday,abankmusthaveadeep______intointernationalfinancialmarkets.
Therearethreeseparatesourcesofhazard【C1】______totheuseofnuclearreactiontosupplyuswithenergy.Firstly,theradioa
随机试题
新生儿肝炎的剖腹探查所见胆道闭锁Ⅱ型的剖腹探查所见
牙龈纤维瘤病具有的特征是
心痹患者,证见心悸,喘咳倚息动则加剧,神疲乏力,面唇紫暗,夜寐不安。舌青紫,脉结。治宜
拆除工程施_工中,()等均属于施工必须建立安全技术档案。
B向A借款一万元并签订了借款合同,C为保证人,但合同中未约定保证方式。当B未按时偿还借款时,下列说法正确的是( )。
下列违反了从业人员职业操守中监管规避的准则的有()
阅读下列材料,完成教学设计。材料1:《普通高中化学课程标准(实验)》的“内容标准”:“认识卤代烃、醇、酚、醛、羧酸、酯的典型代表物的组成和结构特点,知道它们的转化关系。”材料2:普通高中课程标准实验教科书《化学.选修5》(人教
“结构决定性质”是人们认识物质过程中获得的一条规律。下列事实不能用这一规律解释的是()。
大约六千年前,古巴比伦的人们开始制作黏土代币作为交易的记录。不同形状的黏土代币表示不同的物品。当一次交易需要用到很多代币时,人们就用黏士把它们包裹起来,交易者用削尖的木棍在上面刻上不同的符号,用以表示里面包了些什么。后来一些人想到了更简洁的办法,只需简单地
在自定义Swing构件的时候,首先要确定使用哪种构件类作为所定制构件的【】。建议继承JPanel类或更具体的Swing构件类。
最新回复
(
0
)