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下面一段文字在表达上存在一些毛病,请找出文中的4处毛病并改正。

        在北京召开的第三十届国际地质大会上,世界水文专家协会 * * 米歇尔?奈特曾披露:全世界至少有5万人每天死于由水污染引起的各种疾病,发展中国家每年大约有2500多万人死于饮用不洁净的水。中国水利部部长钮茂生日前发出警告:如果不迅速采取行动,在30年内,中国就会发生干净水源枯竭。最近的一项调查表明,饮用水质已经成为12亿中国人生存的尖锐问题。保护环境,改善水质,是当前中国一个刻不容缓的课题。

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答案

(1)语序不当,将“每天”移至“至少”之前

(2)赘余,删去“大约”或“多”

(3)成分残缺,在“中国就会发生干净水源枯竭”后加“的危机”

(4)“饮用水质已经成为12亿中国人生存的尖锐问题”,结构混乱,改为“饮用水质已成为威胁12亿中国人生存的尖锐问题”。

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In most parts of the world, climate change is a worrying subject. Not so in California. At a recent gathering of green luminaries—in a film star’s house, naturally, for that is how seriousness is often established in Los Angeles—the dominant note was self-satisfaction at what the state has already achieved. And perhaps nobody is more complacent than Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unlike A1 Gore, a presidential candidate turned prophet of environmental doom, California’s governor sounds cheerful when talking about climate change. As well he might: it has made his political career.

Although California has long been an environmentally-conscious state, until recently greens were concerned above all with smog and redwood trees. "Coast of Dreams", Kevin Stag’s authoritative history of contemporary California, published in 2004, does not mention climate change. In that year, though, the newly-elected Mr. Schwarzenegger made his first tentative call for western states to seek alternatives to fossil fuels. Gradually he noticed that his efforts to tackle climate change met with less resistance, and more acclaim, than just about all his other policies. These days it can seem as though he works on nothing else.

Mr. Schwarzenegger’s transformation from screen warrior to eco-warrior was completed last year when he signed a bill imposing legally-enforceable limits on greenhouse—gas emissions—a first for America. Thanks mostly to its lack of coal and heavy industry, California is a relatively clean state. If it were a country it would be the world’s eighth-biggest economy, but only its 16th-biggest polluter. Its big problem is transport—meaning, mostly, cars and trucks, which account for more than 40% of its greenhouse-gas emissions compared with 32% in America as a whole. The state wants to ratchet down emissions limits on new vehicles, beginning in 2009. Mr. Schwarzenegger has also ordered that, by 2020, vehicle fuel must produce 10% less carbon: in the production as well as the burning, so a simple switch to corn-based ethanol is probably out.

Thanks in part to California’ s example, most of the western states have adopted climate action plans. When it comes to setting emission targets, the scene can resemble a posedown at a Mr. Olympia contest. Arizona’s climate-change scholars decided to set a target of cutting the state’s emissions to 2000 levels by 2020. But Janet Napolitano, the governor, was determined not to be out-muscled by California. She has declared that Arizona will try to return to 2000 emission levels by 2012.

California has not just inspired other states; it has created a vanguard that ought to be able to prod the federal government into per national standards than it would otherwise consider. But California is finding it easier to export its policies than to put them into practice at home. In one way, California’ s self-confidence is fully justified. It has done more than any other state—let alone the federal government—to fix America’s attention on climate change. It has also made it seem as though the problem can be solved. Which is why failure would be such bad news. At the moment California is a beacon to other states. If it fails, it will become an excuse for inaction.

Why did Mr. Schwarzenegger seem to be working on nothing else()

A. Because California has always been environmentally-conscious

B. Because Kevin Starr failed to talk about climate change in his book

C. Because his call for alternative fuels has been most ply echoed

D. Because all his other policies met with more acclaim than resistance