单选题
（浙江大学2008年试题） The energy crisis, which is being felt around the world, has dramatized how the careless use of the earth's resources has brought the whole world to the brink of disaster. The overdevelopment of motor transport, with its【1】of more cars, more highways, more pollution, more suburbs, more commuting, has【2】to the near-destruction of our cities, and the pollution not only of【3】air, but also of the earth's atmosphere. The disaster has arrived in the【4】of the energy crisis. Our present【5】is unlike war, revolution or depression. It is also unlike the great natural disasters of the past. Worldwide resources【6】and energy use have brought us to a state【7】long-range planning is essential. What we need is not a continuation of our present serious state, which【8】the future of our country, our children, and our earth,【9】a movement forward to a new norm in order to work rapidly and effectively on planetary problems. This country has been falling back under the continuing exposures of loss of【10】. There is a strong demand for moral revival and【11】some devotion that is vast enough and yet【12】enough to enlist the devotion of all. In the past it has been only in a way in【13】of their own country【14】any people have been able to【15】themselves wholeheartedly. This is the first time we have been asked to defend ourselves and what we hold dear in【16】with all the other inhabitants of this planet, who【17】with us the same endangered air and the same endangered oceans. There is a【18】need to reassess our present course, and to【19】new methods through which the world can survive. This is a priceless【20】.