Our environment is getting worse and worse with the increase of the world population, which affects the environment in two ways.
Firstly, the limited energy resources will be used up much faster. Secondly, the increasing population creates more pollution, another severe problem that needs to be solved. Both problems are long-term ones because action taken now shows their results slowly over many years. They are also urgent because delays in action can lead to great suffering and social problems. The question seems to be difficult to handle for most people. However, a person can be a protector of environment in everyday life if he takes action to save the environment right now.
With the development of technology, cars make transportation easier and quicker than before, but we can't ignore the disadvantages brought to us by more and more cars in use. For example, we are consuming gasoline (汽油), which is a non-renewable (不可再生的) resource, and will soon be gone. Moreover, the exhausted gas from cars pollutes our air, and our health is therefore threatened by air pollution, which has a big potential effect on our daily life. So we can consider walking, taking buses, carpooling (拼车), instead of driving cars alone. This seems to be a very slow process that can't be so effective if it's taken by a single person. But when more and more people become aware of the importance and positively take it as their personal responsibilities, the condition of the air will be improved to a great extent.
单选题 According to the writer, the main problem to our environment today is______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】本文开头就提出,随着世界人口的增长,我们的环境变得越来越差;接着作者便分析人口增长怎样导致环境的恶化。由此可见,作者认为当今对于环境来说主要问题是人口的增长,故B)正确。
单选题 From the second paragraph, we can know that______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】根据第二段最后一句可知,一个人只要现在采取行动保护环境,那么他在日常生活中就可以成为一个环境保护者。也就是说,每个人的行动都会对环境保护产生一些影响,故答案为B)。
单选题 The author believes that carpooling______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】由第三段可知,作者建议用步行、乘公共汽车或者拼车来代替自己开车,目的就是为了节省能源和减少空气污染,因此本题答案为A)。
单选题 The author's main purpose in writing this passage is most probably to______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】作者在文中首先提出了环境恶化问题;然后又指出只要人们开始采取措施保护环境,环境会在很大程度上得以改善。由此可见,作者写这篇文章的目的是为了建议人们采取措施保护环境,故答案为A)。
单选题 The passage is mainly about______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】通读全文可知,本文主要是关于环境保护,因此答案为D)。