【題目】One of the two major types of smog - consisting of smoke fog, sulfur dioxide (二氧化硫), sulfuric acid, ash, and soot (煤煙) -is called London smog. Indeed, the word smog is thought to have originated in England in 1905 as a short form of the words “smoke” and “fog.”

Probably the worst case of smog in history started in London on Thursday, 4 December, 1952. 【1】 A temperature inversion (逆溫) placed a blanket of warm air over the cold air. With nightfall, a thick fog and below-freezing temperatures caused the people of London to put coal into their small stoves. Millions of these fires burned throughout the night, pouring sulfur dioxide and smoke into the air. The next day, Friday, the people continued to bum coal when the temperature remained below freezing.【2】

Saturday was a day of darkness. For twenty miles around London, no light came through the smog. The air was cold and still.【3】 On Monday, 8 December, more than one hundred people died of heart attacks while trying desperately to breathe.【4】

By the time a light wind cleared the air on Tuesday, 9 December, more than 4,000 deaths had been caused by the smog. This is more people than were ever killed in any single hurricane, mine disaster, shipwreck, or airplane crash.【5】 Air pollution events may not seem as serious and shocking as other disasters, but they can be just as deadly.

A. Where does “smog” come from?

B. Soot and ash can be removed in a scientific way.

C. And the coal fires continued to bum throughout the weekend.

D. A large cold air mass moved into the valley of the Thames River.

E. The factories added their smoke and chemical gas to the atmosphere.

F. This is more people than were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

G. The city’s hospitals were overflowing with patients with breathing-related diseases.

【答案】

【1】D

【2】E

【3】C

【4】G

【5】F

【解析】本文主要講述從古至今就一直存在空氣污染，但自工業(yè)革命后愈發(fā)嚴(yán)重，而去除污染代價(jià)昂貴，現(xiàn)在還做不到。

【1】D

根據(jù)上句：歷史上最嚴(yán)重的煙霧可能是在星期四，1952年12月4日在倫敦開始的。再根據(jù)據(jù)空格下句：逆溫層把暖空氣覆蓋在冷空氣上�？芍阂淮笃涞臍鈭F(tuán)進(jìn)入了泰晤士河的山谷。故選D。

【2】E

根據(jù)前文：數(shù)百萬的火災(zāi)在夜間燃燒，二氧化硫的燃燒向空氣中傾倒二氧化硫和煙霧。當(dāng)氣溫保持在冰點(diǎn)以下時(shí)，人們繼續(xù)燃煤。所以與前文相匹配的內(nèi)容應(yīng)該是：E項(xiàng)，The factories added their smoke and chemical gas to the atmosphere. 工廠向大氣中添加了煙和化學(xué)氣體。

【3】C

根據(jù)上文：星期六是一個(gè)黑暗的日子。環(huán)繞倫敦二十英里，煙霧中沒有燈光�？諝庥掷溆朱o。所以，整個(gè)周末煤火一直在燃燒。故選C。

【4】G

根據(jù)上文：在拼命地呼吸期間，超過一百人死于心臟病發(fā)作�？芍@座城市的醫(yī)院里滿是呼吸病人。故選G。

【5】F

根據(jù)前文：12月9日，4000多人死于霧霾。這比任何一次颶風(fēng)、煤礦災(zāi)難、船舶失事或飛機(jī)墜毀死的人都要多。與之相匹配的應(yīng)該是：F項(xiàng)， This is more people than were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.這比1941年的珍珠港襲擊死的人還要多。此處關(guān)鍵詞是：

This is more people than were killed---。

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