Question

【题目】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Having bad feeling about world? “Cheer up.” says science writer Matt Ridley. “The world has never been a better place to live in, and it will keep on getting better both for humans and for nature.” 【1】

1. 【2】

It is reported that there are more than ten billion different products for sale in London alone. Even allowing for the many people who still live in poverty, our own generation has access to more nutritious food, more convenient transport, bigger houses, and better cars. 【3】 This will continue as long as we use these things to make other things. The more we specialize and exchange, the better off we'll be.

2.Brilliant advances

One reason we are richer, healthier, taller, cleverer, longer lived and freer than ever before is that the four most basic human needs—food, clothing, fuel and shelter—have grown a lot cheaper. Take one example. In 1800 a candle providing one hour's light cost six hours' work. In the 1880s the same light from an oil lamp took 15 minutes' work to pay for. 【4】 Today it's half second.

3.Let's not kill ourselves for climate change

【5】 A child that dies from indoor smoke in a village, where the use of fossil-fuel (化石燃料) electricity is forbidden by well-meaning members of green political movements trying to save the world, is just as great a tragedy as a child that dies in a flood caused by climate change. If climate change proves to be mild, but cutting carbon causes real pain, we may well find that we have stopped a nose-bleed by putting a tourniquet (止血带) around our necks.

A. Ridley calls himself a rational optimist—rational, because he's carefully weighed the evidence.

B. Overreaction to climate change could prove just as damaging to human welfare as climate change itself.

C. Shopping fuels invention.

D. And, of course, we earn more pounds and dollars than any who lived before us.

E. In 1950 it was eight seconds.

F. It’s high time that we took immediate action to fight climate change.

G. Here's how he explains his views.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】G

【2】C

【3】D

【4】E

【5】B

【解析】

试题分析：人类的进步是无法阻挡的，是令人乐观。在《理性的乐观主义者》一书中，作者阐述了自己对于生活中的乐观现象，并且对于购物这样普通的日常行为所带来的积极影响都做了详尽的分析和描述

【1】G根据上句：世界从来就不是一个更好居住的地方，它将持续不断地使人类和大自然变得更好。可知下文在解释这个观点，故选G

【2】C根据本段第一句：据报道仅在伦敦就有100多亿产品在销售。再根据本段最后一句可知，购物刺激发明创造，刺激消费，促进生产，这种情况越多，我们将会越富有。根据句意和句子结构，可知C项最符合题意

【3】D根据上句：我们这一代有更多的营养食品，更方便的交通，更大的房子和更好的汽车。再根据下句：只要用这些钱制造其他的东西，这将会持续。可知此空要表达的是：我们比以前的人挣了更多的英镑和美元。故选D

【4】E根据下句提到今天它是半秒，可知选E，在1950年，它是八秒。

【5】B根据下文提到一个孩子死于室内的烟和文章最后一句话可知，如果气候变化证明是轻微的，然而降低二氧化碳会引起麻烦，那很可能会发现我们用止血带缠绕脖子来止鼻血，可知对气候变化的过度反应存在着危险，故选B项。

考点 ：七选五