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What’s the greenest place in America? If you answered something like the warm sunlight of Santa Barbara, you’d be wrong. The greenest place in America has almost no sign of nature— the buildings outnumber the trees— and the air isn’t all that great. What it has is density(密度)and efficiency— the twin qualities that finally define green in the global warming time. Applying those standards，the greenest place in America is New York City— particularly，the overcrowded，overpriced island of Manhattan, which produces 30％ less per-capita(人均)greenhouse gas than that of the nation．
It’s that density that makes Manhattan so green. Manhattan’s population density is 800 times the national average. Density comes with negatives，certainly— small living spaces，air pollution— but it also enables amazing efficiencies．Over 80％ of Manhattanites travel to work by public transport, by bike or on foot— compared to an average of about 8％ everywhere else in the country. Manhattan’s apartment buildings are far more energy-efficient than the houses in the suburbs.
What’s true of New York City is more or less true of other American urban areas, which explains why a growing part of the environmental movement now focuses on greening cities, hoping to attract more Americans back downtown. There’s an effort to make cities more sustainable(可持續(xù)的)，by improving public transport，reducing air pollution and upgrading energy efficiency. But even more important, it is quite urgent to change decades of government policies that have been in favor of the suburbs，with disastrous consequences for energy，the environment and the climate.
That’s exactly the difficult point. For all the high efficiency and convenience and richness of living in a city，there are disadvantages too．New York，for example，has some of the highest childhood asthma(哮喘)rates in the U.S.
So it’s welcome news that New York has continued to push its P1aNYC scheme, a long-term program to make the city greener and more sustainable over the next decades. Recently it announced an update to the plan that includes phasing out heavy heating oils in New York City apartment buildings by 2030，to be replaced with cleaner natural gas.
【小題1】Manhattan is considered as the greenest place in America because of its__________

A．buildings and trees	B．density and efficiency
C．sunlight and nature	D．transport and population

【小題2】We can infer from the passage that___________.

A．New Yorkers have urged the city government to carry out green policies

B．the public transport and living space are quite satisfactory in New York

C．life in the countryside is more comfortable and energy efficient than that in cities

D．the significance of making cities greener is gained in promoting energy efficiency

【小題3】The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to___________.

A．New York city	B．PlaNYC scheme
C．Manhattan	D．Santa Barbara

【小題4】The underlined part “phasing out” in the last paragraph probably means___________.

A．rapidly promoting dealing with

B．widely suggesting researching on

C．gradually stopping using

D．immediately forbidding producing

【小題5】What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Manhattan the Greenest Place in America?

B．The Higher Density，the Greener City?

C．PlaNYC Scheme：New York City’s Future

D．Living in Cities Does Good to the Environment

Answer 1

【小題1】B
【小題2】D
【小題3】A
【小題4】C
【小題5】A

解析試題分析：本文主要講述的是美國最綠色環(huán)保的城市是紐約的曼哈頓區(qū)，解釋了為什么曼哈頓區(qū)最綠色環(huán)保的主要原因。
【小題1】B 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第一段3,4,5,6行What it has is density(密度)and efficiency— the twin qualities that finally define green in the global warming time. Applying those standards，the greenest place in America is New York City— particularly，the overcrowded，overpriced island of Manhattan可知density(密度)and efficiency是曼哈頓成為greenest place的主要原因。故B正確。
【小題2】D 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段2,3行Density comes with negatives，certainly— small living spaces，air pollution
— but it also enables amazing efficiencies．可知能源的高效性是主要的原因。故D正確。
【小題3】A 推理題。根據(jù)本句Recently it announced an update to the plan that includes phasing out heavy heating oils in New York City apartment buildings by 2030，to be replaced with cleaner natural gas.可知正是紐約市自己宣布到2030年要有很多的具體計劃。所以這里的it就是指紐約市。故A正確。
【小題4】C 推理題。根據(jù)本句. Recently it announced an update to the plan that includes phasing out heavy heating oils in New York City apartment buildings by 2030，to be replaced with cleaner natural gas.可知紐約要更新一系列的工廠，包括逐漸停止使用重油耗的；與下文的cleaner natural gas相呼應(yīng)，可知C正確。
【小題5】A 主旨大意題。本文主要講述的是美國最綠色環(huán)保的城市是紐約的曼哈頓區(qū)，解釋了為什么曼哈頓區(qū)最綠色環(huán)保的主要原因。故A項符合文章大意。
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