| 在职攻硕英语易错题（2019/7/24） |
| 第1题：Our trouble lies in a simple confusion, one to which economists have been prone since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Growth and ecology operate by different rules.Economists tend to assume that every problem of scarcity can be solved by substitution, by replacing tuna with tilapia, without factoring in the long-term environmental implications of either.But whereas economies might expand, ecosystems do not. They change—pine gives way to oak, coyotes arrive in NewEngland—and they reproduce themselves, but they do not increase in extent or abundance year after year. Most economists think of scarcity as a labor problem. Imagining that only energy and technology place limits on production. To harvest more wood, build a better chain saw; to pump more oil, drill more wells; to get more food, invent pest-resistant plants. That logic thrived on new frontiers and more intensive production, and it held off the prophets of scarcity—from Thomas Robert Malthus to PaulEhrlich—whose predictions of famine and shortage have not come to pass. TheAgricultural Revolution that began in seventeenth-centuryEngland radically increased the amount of food that could be grown on an acre of land, and the same happened in the 1960s and 1970s when fertilizer and hybridized seeds arrived in India and Mexico.But the picture looks entirely different when we change the scale. Industrial society is roughly 250 years olD、make the last ten thousand years equal to twenty-four hours, and we have been producing consumer goods andCO2 for only the last thirty-six minutes.Do the same for the past 1 million years of human evolution, and every thing from the steam engine to the search engine fits into the past twenty-one seconds. If we are not careful, hunting and gathering will look like a far more successful strategy of survival than economic growth. The latter has changed so much about the earth and human societies in so little time that it makes more sense to be cautious than triumphant. Although food scarcity, when it occurs, is a localized problem, other kinds of scarcity are already here. Groundwater is alarmingly low in regions all over the world, but the most immediate threat to growth is surely petroleum. What does the passage say about the predictions made by Thomas Robert Malthus and PaulEhrlich A、They proved to be useful. B、They have not come true. C、They proved to be accurate. D、They have not drawn enough attention. |
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| 第2题： Samuel: Hey, ______.Diana: I wish I could. But I really have to stay in and finish my paper tonight.Samuel: Oh, maybe some other time, then. A．can I come to visit you tonight B．shall we have a barbecue some day this week C．would you like to go to cinema with me tonight D．John will leave Chicago tonight. Shall we go to see him off |
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| 第3题： Why were cracks in old houses not a big concern A．Because indoor cleanness was not emphasized. B．Because energy used to be inexpensive. C．Because environmental protection was given top priority. D．Because they were technically unavoidable. |
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| 第4题：Mr. Woods: I'd like a double room for tonight. Clerk: ______ Mr. Woods: Yes. I called you last week from New York. My name is George Woods. A．Have you made an order B．Have you paid beforehand C．Do you have a reservation D．Do you have an appointment |
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| 第5题：In the imagined world ______ would restrict children's wildest thoughts. A．the limits of their imagination B．the structure and form of the environment C．the reality of life D．the roles of the society |
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