问题 单项选择题

You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century—when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all—and ask ourselves. What were we thinking How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth, climate, natural resource and population redlines all at once "The only answer can be denial," argues Paul Gilding, an Australian environmentalist, in a new book called The Great Disruption. "When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natural response. But the longer we wait, the bigger the response required."

Gilding cites the work of the Global Footprint Network, an alliance of scientists, which calculates how many "planet Earths" we need to sustain our current growth rates. G. F. N. measures how much land and water area we need to produce the resources we consume and absorb our waste, using prevailing technology. On the whole, says G. F. N. , we are currently growing at a rate that is using up the Earth’s resources far faster than they can be sustainably replenished, so we are eating into the future.

This is not science fiction. This is what happens when our system of growth and the system of nature hit the wall at once. We are now using so many resources and putting out so much waste into the Earth that we have reached some kind of limit, given current technologies. The economy is going to have to get smaller in terms of physical impact.

We will not change systems, though, without a crisis. But don’t worry, we’re getting there. We’re currently caught in two loops: One is that more population growth and more global warming together are pushing up food prices, causing political instability in the Middle East, which leads to higher oil prices, thus to higher food prices and more instability. At the same time, improved productivity means fewer people are needed in every factory to produce more stuff. So if we want to have more jobs, we need more factories. More factories making more stuff make more global warming, and that is where the two loops meet.

But Gilding is actually an eco-optimist. As the impact o the imminent Great Disruption hits us, he says, "our response will be proportionally dramatic, mobilizing as we do in war. We will change at a scale and speed we can barely imagine today, completely transforming our economy, including our energy and transport industries, in just a few short decades. " We will realize, he predicts, that the consumer-driven growth model is broken and we have to move to a more happiness-driven growth model, based on people working less and owning less.

To correct the situation, Gilding advocates()

A. stabilizing the political and economic situation

B. learning useful lessons from wartime mobilization

C. keeping economic growth at a sustainable rate

D. making better use of current technologies

答案

参考答案:C

解析:

第三段提到,Gilding是一位乐观主义者。他说,我们应该用战争动员的方式来对待目前的形势,我们要改变发展规模和速度,彻底改变我们的经济,我们必须意识到,由消费驱动的经济成长模式已经被打破,我们必须要转向一个由幸福驱动的成长模式,根据这种模式,人们可以少工作,少拥有。这里所谓happiness-driven growth model就是指上文提到的可持续发展模式,即减小经济规模,降低发展速度,以便地球能支撑经济的发展。

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阅读下面的文言文,完成后面小题。

韩延徽,字藏明,幽州安次人。父梦殷,累官蓟、儒、顺三州刺史。延徽少英,燕帅刘仁恭奇之,召为幽都府文学、平州录事参军,同冯道祗候院,授幽州观察度支使。后守光为帅,延徽来聘,太祖怒其不屈,留之。述律后谏曰:“彼秉节弗挠,贤者也,奈何困辱之?”太祖召与语,合上意,立命参军事。攻党项、室韦,服诸部落,延徽之筹居多。乃请树城郭,分市里,以居汉人之降者。又为定配偶,教垦艺,以生养之。以故逃亡者少。

居久之,慨然怀其乡里,赋诗见意,遂亡归唐。已而与他将王缄有隙,惧及难,乃省亲幽州,匿故人王德明舍。德明问所适,延徽曰:“吾将复走契丹。”德明不以为然。延徽笑曰:“彼失我如失左右手,其见我必喜。”既至,太祖问故。延徽曰:“忘亲非孝,弃君非忠。臣虽挺身逃,臣心在陛下。臣是以复来。”上大悦,赐名曰匣列。“匣列”,辽言复来也。即命为守政事令、崇文馆大学士,中外事悉令参决。

天赞四年,从征渤海,大諲歙乞降。既而复叛,与诸将破其城,以功拜左仆射。又与康默记攻长岭府,拔之。师还,太祖崩,哀动左右。太宗朝,封鲁国公,仍为政事令。使晋还,改南京三司使。世宗朝,迁南府宰相,建政事省,设张理具,称尽力吏。天禄五年六月,河东使请行册礼,帝诏延徽定其制,延徽奏一遵太宗册晋帝礼,从之。应历中,致仕。子德枢镇东平,诏许每岁东归省。九年卒,年七十八。上闻震悼,赠尚书令,葬幽州之鲁郭,世为崇文令公。——(《辽史·韩延徽传》)

小题1:对下列句子中加点的词的解释,不正确的一项是(3分)

A.燕帅刘仁恭之奇:认为……不同凡响

B.后守光为帅,延徽来聘:聘请

C.已而与他将王缄有隙:嫌隙、矛盾

D.德明问所适:去哪里小题2:以下各组句子中,全都表明韩延徽军事才能的一组是(3分))

①攻党项、室韦,服诸部落           ②又为定配偶,教垦艺,以生养之

③天赞四年,从征渤海,大諲歙乞降   ④又与康默记攻长岭府

⑤建政事省,设张理具,称尽力吏     ⑥诏许每岁东归省

A.①②③

B.①④⑤

C.③④⑥

D.①③④小题3:下列对原文有关内容的概括和分析,不正确的一项是(3分)

A.后来刘守光担任统帅,韩延徽奉命出使契丹,辽太祖恼怒他不屈服,扣留了他,不让他返回,后因述律后的知人和太祖的善任才逐渐被重用。

B.韩延徽在辽朝居住了很长时间,感慨地怀念起自己的家乡,赋诗来表达这种心情,于是,逃回后唐,因与另一个将领王缄有矛盾,在老友王德明的劝说下又逃回契丹。

C.韩延徽又一次来到辽朝,辽太祖给韩延徽赐名为“匣列”。随即任命为守政事令、崇文馆大学士,朝廷内外的事情都让他参与决断,足见对其非常信任。

D.韩延徽又与康默记一起攻打长岭府,占领了这座城池。队伍返回,太祖逝世,韩延徽哀恸欲绝,把左右部属都感动了。小题4:把文中画横线的句子翻译成现代汉语。(10分)

(1)彼秉节弗挠,贤者也,奈何困辱之?(5分)

(2)乃请树城郭,分市里,以居汉人之降者。(5分)