Text 2 Do you remember all those years when scientists argued that smoking would kill us but the doubters insisted that we didn’ t know for sure That the evidence was inconclusive , the science uncertain That the antismoking lobby was out to destroy our way of life and the government should stay out of the way Lots of Americans bought that nonsense, and over three decades, some 10 million smokers went to early graves. There are upsetting parallels today, as scientists in one wave after another try to awaken us to the growing threat of global warming. The latest was a panel from the National Academy of Sciences, enlisted by the White House, to tell us that the Earth’ s atmosphere is definitely warming and that the problem is largely man-made. The clear message is that we should get moving to protect ourselves. The president of the National Academy, Bruce Alberts, added this key point in the preface to the panel’ s report: "Science never has all the an
A. there was no scientific evidence of the correlation between smoking and death
B. the number of early deaths of smokers in the past decades was insignificant
C. people had the freedom to choose their own way of life
D. antismoking people were usually talking nonsense
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Within 80 years, some scientists estimate, the world must produce more than eight times the present world food supply. The productiveness of the sea raises our hopes for an adequate food supply in the future. Aided by men of science, we have set forth to find out
that 70 percent of the earth remains unexplored--the ocean depths. Thus, we may better discover and utilize the sea’s natural products for the world’s hungry.
It is fish protein concentrate that is sought .from the seas. By utilizing the unharvested fish in United States waters alone, enough fish protein concentrate can be obtained to provide supplemental animal protein for more than one billion people for one year at the cost of less than half a cent per day per person. The malnutrition of children is terribly tragic, But the crime lies in society’s unrestrained breeding, not in its negligence in producing fish powder. But wherever the population projects are caref
A. the seas we will depend on for future food have been more or less contaminated.
B. the marine resources are directly bound up with our future life.
C. the exploitation drives are essential for us to improve the quality of llfe on the earth.
D. the ecological balance in the seas has nothing to do with that on the land.
I had an experience some years ago which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January., I Had to officiate at two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died "full of years", as the Bible would say; both yielded to the nor- mal wearing out of the body after a long and full life. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condo- fence (吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.
At the first home, the son of the deceased (已故的) woman said to me, "If only 1 had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died." At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, "If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the abrupt change of climate, was more than she could take
A. everybody is at their command
B. life and death is an unsolved mystery
C. every story should have a happy ending
D. their wishes are the cause of everything that happens
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