首页
登录
职称英语
The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothin
The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothin
游客
2023-07-14
10
管理
问题
The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing I could ever have imagined for me or my children. We are living in an environmental crisis, an air-pollution emergency of unprecedented severity. What it really means is that just to breathe here is to play a dangerous game with your health.
As parents, what terrorizes us most are reports that children are at higher risk because they breathe more times per minute. What more can we do to protect them and ourselves? Our pediatrician’s medical recommendation was simple, abandon the city permanently. We are foreigners and we are among the small minority that can afford to leave. We are here because of my husband’s work. We are fascinated by Mexico its history and rich culture. We know that for us, this is a temporary danger. However, we cannot stand for much longer the fear we feel for our boys. We cannot stop them from breathing.
But for millions, there is no choice. Their lives, their jobs, their Futures depend on being here. Thousands of Mexicans arrive each day in this city, desperate for economic opportunities. Thousands more are born here each day. Entire families work in the streets and practically, live there. It is a familiar sight: as parents hawk goods at stoplights, their children play in the grassy highway dividers, breathing exhaust fumes. I feel guilty complaining about my personal situation; we won’t be here long enough for our children to form the impression that skies are colored only gray.
And yet the government cannot do what it must to end this problem. For any country especially a developing Third World economy like Mexico’s, the idea of barring from the capital city enough cars, closing enough factories and spending the necessary billions on public transportation is simply not an option. So when things get bad, as in the current emergency, Mexico takes half measure a prohibiting some more cars from circulating stopping some factories from producing that even its own officials concede aren’t adequate.
The word "emergency" implies the unusual. But when daily life itself is an emergency the concept loses its meaning. It is human nature to try to adapt to that which we cannot change. Or to mislead ourselves into believing we can adapt. [br] The word "hawk" (Paragraph 3) most probably means ______.
选项
A、transport
B、sell
C、race
D、deliver
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.tihaiku.com/zcyy/2835646.html
相关试题推荐
Recurrenteducationisinstructionformenandwomenwhonolongergotosch
Recurrenteducationisinstructionformenandwomenwhonolongergotosch
Recurrenteducationisinstructionformenandwomenwhonolongergotosch
Recurrenteducationisinstructionformenandwomenwhonolongergotosch
Recurrenteducationisinstructionformenandwomenwhonolongergotosch
Whathethoughtanddidatschool_____________(与这个问题毫无关系).havenothingtodowit
Asmostparentsofsmallchildrenwillreluctantlyadmit,nothingcanoccupy
Asmostparentsofsmallchildrenwillreluctantlyadmit,nothingcanoccupy
Asmostparentsofsmallchildrenwillreluctantlyadmit,nothingcanoccupy
Asmostparentsofsmallchildrenwillreluctantlyadmit,nothingcanoccupy
随机试题
Initsvariousformsfromfictiontodocumentary,themotionpicturehasbecom
WhenLouiseBrownwasbornon25July1978,shekickedoffanera.Thefirst
刺绣(embroidery)是中国艺术里一枚璀璨的珍珠。从君王所穿的华丽的龙袍(DragonRobe)到当今时尚界的流行刺绣,刺绣给我们的生活和文化增
湿式自动喷水灭火系统启动消防泵的方式首选应为()。A.自动启动 B.消防控制
与钢制散热器相比,铸铁散热器的特点有()。A.金属耗量少 B.其金属热强
贷款本息全部还清后,相关部门应在贷款本息收回后()日内形成书面总结报告。A.
中央行政部门和全国教育工会联合颁布的《中小学教师职业道德规范》要求教师对学生要_
驱虫药适宜于A.睡前服B.饭后服C.空腹服D.与食物同服E.剧烈腹痛时服
在再保险合同中,双方当事人大多约定采用()方式解决争议。A:协商 B:调解
以下属于稳定和发展经济职能的财政措施有()。A:累进的所得税 B:减少税收和
最新回复
(
0
)