英语阅读(二) |
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A. impossible
B. dangerous
C. possible
D. demanding
III. Directions:
Scan through Passage 1 and find the words which have roughly the meanings given below and write the word you choose in the corresponding space on your ANSWER SHEET.(10 points,1 point for each)
Note: The numbers in the brackets refer to the numbers of paragraphs in the passage.
21.the controlling of some activity by means of rules or law(1)
22.not complete or whole(1)
23.able to change easily and adapt to different conditions(1)
24.having an unusual character or quality which is uneasy to be forgotten(2)
25.act of making something smaller in size or amount(2)
26.an idea or abstract principle which is related to a particular subject or view(2)
27.chances of being successful(3)
28.the release of something such as gas or radiation into the atmosphere
29.to remove something completely(5)
30.a new idea or method that is introduced in the way that something is done or made(4)
Passage1
1.As negotiators gather this week in Buenos Aires to try to figure out how to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the story of U. S. acid rain control offers a case study in the successful regulation of a wide-ranging pollutant. Economists are still trying to understand just why control is proving so cheap, but they agree that at lest partial credit must go to the unusually flexible U. S. Regulations and their use of the free market. In the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, Congress told power plant operators how much to cut emissions but not bow to do it, and established an emissions trading system in which power plants could buy and sell rights to pollute.
2.It was "a radically different way to go about environmental regulation," says economist A. Denny Ellerman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)," The lessons learned are pretty impressive ."The united States is now trying to spread those lessons worldwide. Indeed, in Europe, where acid rain reductions appear to be more expensive than in the United States is now trying to spread those lessons worldwide. Indeed, in Europe, where acid rain reductions appear to be more expensive than in the United states, regulators are taking a close look at the U. S. Model. A flexible system of emissions trading also serves as the crux of U. S. proposals for reining in greenhouse warming --- although no one is
sure whether such a system can be scaled up to work across many different countries. "We proved the concept," says Joseph Kruger of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C. "If the acid rain program hadn't been such a success, we wouldn't be talking about trading greenhouse emissions."
3.The prospects for economical acid rain reductions by any means looked bleak in the 1980, says Joseph Goffman of the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington, D.C. In the late'80s, when it was thought that sulfur dioxide emissions --- then totaling 25 million tons a year --- would have to be reduced by 10 million tons a year, he recalls, estimates of the cost were running from many hundreds to $1000 for every ton shaved off the total, or a cool $ 10 billion a year. Those high prices were based on complying with the standard type of "command and control" emission regulations, in which regulators made all the decisions. In the 1977 clean Air Act, for example, regulators decided on a control technology --- a "scrubber" that strips the sulfur dioxide from the spent combustion gases before they go up the stack --- and they also decided which plants needed scrubbers. |
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