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英文
第 41 題
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In India's capital, new housing sprawls as far as the eye can see, a symbol of the world's fastest growing major economy. There also are towering symbols of the environmental cost of all this. Ghazipur, one of the city's landfills, more than 10 stories high, an accumulation by now of more than 10 million tons of waste, is one of the biggest problems in India now. Trucks are bringing in an additional 2,000 tons of unsorted garbage here every day. The trash problem is now a crisis at many levels. First, India is on the _________ zone, so if there is an earthquake, the mound of trash would slide down. Even without an earthquake, festering garbage would spew toxins into the air while a stew of heavy metals and organic and inorganic pollutants washes into the soil when it rains. Now a company, contracted by Indian government, attempts to tackle this crisis by a power plant to convert waste to energy, sent to the electric grid. However, this is not the first attempt at creating energy from waste. Previous ones haven't worked, according to environmental activists, because of the inability to sort and segregate the waste which is then used for incineration. If the trash isn't sorted properly, you may have both very toxic emissions that come out of the plant and fuel of very poor quality that is generated. The proper segregation of the trash fails because in a caste society like India, waste has been the domain of people on the lowest rung of the age-old social hierarchy, not the middle classes who generate most of it.
In India's capital, new housing sprawls as far as the eye can see, a symbol of the world's fastest growing major economy. There also are towering symbols of the environmental cost of all this. Ghazipur, one of the city's landfills, more than 10 stories high, an accumulation by now of more than 10 million tons of waste, is one of the biggest problems in India now. Trucks are bringing in an additional 2,000 tons of unsorted garbage here every day. The trash problem is now a crisis at many levels. First, India is on the _________ zone, so if there is an earthquake, the mound of trash would slide down. Even without an earthquake, festering garbage would spew toxins into the air while a stew of heavy metals and organic and inorganic pollutants washes into the soil when it rains. Now a company, contracted by Indian government, attempts to tackle this crisis by a power plant to convert waste to energy, sent to the electric grid. However, this is not the first attempt at creating energy from waste. Previous ones haven't worked, according to environmental activists, because of the inability to sort and segregate the waste which is then used for incineration. If the trash isn't sorted properly, you may have both very toxic emissions that come out of the plant and fuel of very poor quality that is generated. The proper segregation of the trash fails because in a caste society like India, waste has been the domain of people on the lowest rung of the age-old social hierarchy, not the middle classes who generate most of it.
According to the article, which of the following statements is correct?
- A Cleaners have to sort 2,000 tons of garbage in Ghazipur everyday.
- B The tallest skyscraper in the capital of India is 10 stories high.
- C The economic growth encourages India to abolish its age-old caste system.
- D The landfill is a consequence accompanying the rising awareness of eco-friendliness.
- E Toxic emissions out of the power plant may have to do with the heavy metals in the burned waste.
思路引導 VIP
若我們要讓一台機器運作並產生乾淨的能源，通常需要純淨的燃料。請試著思考：如果我們把包含重金屬、塑膠與各種化學廢棄物在內的「未分類垃圾」全部丟進高溫爐火中燒毀，那麼從發煙囪排出的氣體，其成分會受到哪些原始垃圾內容物的影響呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精確捕捉到文章中關於「廢棄物處理」與「環境污染」之間的邏輯關聯，這代表你具備了高水準的細節比對與推論能力。
廢棄物焚化與污染的邏輯推論
這題的核心在於整合文章二、三段的資訊。文中第二段提到，垃圾堆中含有重金屬 (heavy metals) 及各種有機、無機污染物；第三段則進一步說明，如果垃圾在送入發電廠焚化前「沒有經過適當分類 (not sorted properly)」，就會產生高度有毒的排放物 (toxic emissions)。由此可見，焚化過程中所排出的毒素，正是因為垃圾中混雜了重金屬等未經篩選的物質所致，因此選項 (E) 是最合理的推論。
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