The energy crisis (危机) has made people aware of how
the careless use of the earth’s energy has brought the whole world to the edge
of disaster. The over – development of motor transport, with its increase of
more cars, more traveling, has contributed to the near – destruction of our
cities and the pollution not only of local air but also of the earth’s
atmosphere.
Our present situation is unlike natural
disasters of the past. Worldwide energy use has brought us to a state where
long – range planning is vital. What we need is not a continuation of our
present serious state, which endangers the future of our country, our children,
and our earth, but a movement forward in order to work rapidly and effectively
on planetary problems.
This country has been falling back under
the continuing exposures of loss of morality (道德) and the revelation (揭露) that lawbreaking has reached
into the highest place in the land. There is a strong demand for morality to
turn for the better and for some devotion that is vast enough and yet personal
enough to enlist the devotion of all. In the past it has been only in a way in
defense of their own country and their own benefits that people have been able
to devote themselves wholeheartedly.
This is the first time that we have been
asked to defend ourselves and what we hold dear in cooperation with all the
other people of this planet, who share with us the same endangered air and the
same endangered oceans. There is a common need to reassess our present course,
to change that course and to employ new methods through which the world can
survive. This is a priceless opportunity.
To grasp it, we need a widespread
understanding of nature if the crisis we and the world are facing is no passing
inconvenience, no by-product（副产品）of the ambitions of the oil – producing countries, no
environmentalists’ only fears, no byproduct of any present system of
government. What we face is the result of the invention of the last four
hundred years. What we need is transformed life style. This new life style can
flow directly from science and technology, but its acceptance depends on a
sincere devotion to finding a higher quality of life for the world’s children
and future generation.
1. Which of the following has nearly
destroyed our cities?
A. The loss of beliefs and
ideas.
B. More of law – breaking.
C. Natural disasters in many
areas.
D. The rapid growth of motors.
2. By comparing past problems with present
ones, the author draws our attention to
the .
A. seriousness of this
crisis
B. ineffectiveness of laws
C. similarity of the past to the
present D. hopelessness
of the situation
3. Which of the following is used as an
example to show the loss of morality?
A. Disregard for
law.
B. Lack of devotion.
C. Lack of
understanding.
D. Destruction of cities.
4. The author wrote the passage in order
to .
A. make a recommendation for a transformed
life style
B. limit ambitions of the people of the
whole world
C. demand devotion to nature and future
generation
D. encourage awareness of the decline of
morality
新课标快乐提优暑假作业陕西旅游出版社系列答案
暑假衔接培优教材浙江工商大学出版社系列答案
欣语文化快乐暑假沈阳出版社系列答案