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【单选题】Cars account for half the oil consumed in the U.S. , about half the urban pollution and one fourth the greenhouse (温室) gases. They take a similar toll of (损耗) resources in other industrial nations and in the cities of the developing worl
D、As vehicle use continues to increase in the coming decade, the U.S. and other countries will have to deal with these issues or else face unacceptable economic, health-related and political costs. It is unlikely that prices will remain at their current low level or that other nations will accept a large and growing U.S. contribution to global climatic change.
Policymakers and industry have four options: reduce vehicle use, increase the efficiency and reduce the emissions of conventional gasoline-powered vehicles, switch to less harmful fuels, or find less polluting driving systems. The last of these—in particular the introduction of vehicles powered by electricity—is ultimately the only sustainable option. The other alternatives are attractive in theory but in practice are either impractical or offer only marginal improvements. For example, reduced vehicle use could solve traffic problems and a host of social and environmental problems, but evidence from around the world suggests that it is very difficult to make people give up their cars to any significant extent. In the U.S. , mass-transit ridership and carpooling (合伙用车) have declined since World War Ⅱ.Even in westernEurope, with fuel prices averaging more than ＄1 a liter (about ＄4 a gallon) and with easily accessible mass transit and dense populations, cars still account for 80 percent of all passenger travel.
Improved energy efficiency is also appealing, but automotive fuel economy has barely made any progress in 10 years.Alternative fuels such as natural gas, burned in internal-combustion engines, could be introduced at relatively low cost, but they would lead to only marginal reductions in pollution and greenhouse emissions (especially because oil companies are already spending billions of dollars every year to develop less polluting types of gasoline).
Which of the following statements is TRUE、according to the passage
A、The decline of public transportation accounts for increased car use in westernEurope.
B、Cars are popular in westernEurope even though fuel prices are fairly high.
C、The reduction of vehicle use is the only sustainable option in densely populated westernEurope.
D、WesternEuropean oil companies cannot sustain the cost of developing new-type fuels.
网考网参考答案：B
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[解析] 推断题。问根据文章，下列哪一个选项是正确的。根据对文章的理解，B项是正确的，其意思是：在西欧，尽管燃料价格高，但小汽车仍很受欢迎。文章第二段的最后一句谈到，即使在西欧，尽管燃料价格平均为每升1美元多，公共交通工具很方便以及人口很稠密，小汽车仍承担了80%的客运量。A项的因果关系与短文内容(第二段倒数第二句)不一致；C项与短文内容(第二段最后一句及第一、二句)相矛盾；D项也非短文最后一句的本意。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>