单选题
What are some of the major environmental issues in developing nations? Global warming is not among them—not
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we look at all the deaths caused by flooding, droughts, heat waves, and storms. Today, about 0.06 percent of all deaths in the developing world are the result of such
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weather.
Instead, one of the biggest environmental killers in the developing world is a problem
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to most people in rich countries: indoor air pollution. We take for granted our
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to heat, light, and convenience at the flick (轻打) of a switch.
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3 billion people in developing nations have no choice but to use
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like cardboard (硬纸板) or dung (粪) to cook their food and warm their homes. The annual death toll from breathing the smoke of these fires is at least 1.4 million and most
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are women and children.
Another big environmental problem is poverty. To the more than 1 billion people living on less than $1.25 a day, worrying about
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issues is a distant luxury. If your family is freezing, you will cut down the last tree for fuel; if they are starving, you will strip the land bare to
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them. And if you have no certainty about the future, you will provide for it in the only way possible, by having more children to care for you in your old age,
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how much they will add to humanity"s demands on the planet.
【答案解析】[考点] 近义名词辨析
[解析] 本题要求填入一个名词。空格后用like(比如)对该名词举例说明,句中的不定式则是表明了使用该样东西的目的:做饭和给家取暖。这样,正确答案就很清楚了,应该选择A项fuels(燃料)。B项stuff意为“东西”,往往在事物名称不详、无关紧要或所指事物明显时用,如:What"s all that sticky stuff on the carpet?(地毯上那黏糊糊的都是什么东西?)C项chips意为“薄皮,碎片”,与所举例子不符;D项items意为“项目,条款”,与题意差得更远。