Question

Hu Li’s heart sank due to the color of the air. Driving 140 kilometers from Tianjin City to Beijing last week, she held her breath as the air became a charcoal grey haze (炭灰色的阴霾) . The 39-year-old businesswoman has lived in Beijing for a decade, and this past month, she said, brought the worst air pollution she has ever seen.  It gave her husband a cough and left her seven-year-old daughter housebound (足不出户) . “My husband as well as I is working here, so we have no choice,” she said. “But if we had a choice, we’d like to escape from Beijing.”

The extended heavy pollution over the last month, which caused punishment in return for a day last week-called the “airpocalypse” by Internet users-has largely changed the way that Chinese think about the country’s air. On one day, pollution levels were 30 times higher than levels considered safe by the World Health Organization (WHO). Flights were cancelled. Roads were closed. One hospital in east Beijing reported they had treated more than 900 children for breathing issues. Bloomberg found that for most of January, Beijing’s air was worse than that of an airport smoking area.

The smog’s most threatening aspect is its high concentration (浓度) of PM

2. 5-particulate matter that is small enough to breathe deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstream, causing breathing infections, lung cancer and possibly damaging children’s development. The WHO has estimated that outdoor air pollution accounts for two million deaths per year, 65% of them in Asia.

1.Which conclusion can we draw from the first paragraph?

A. Hu Li is living in Beijing.

B. Hu Li traveled to Tianjin for business.

C. The haze is harmful to people.

D. The pollution is the worst in Beijing’s history.

2.The extended heavy pollution has largely changed   .

A. the way they traveled

B. the opinion about national air

C. the way they lived their life

D. the lifestyle of Internet users

3.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Hu Li’s Attitudes to Beijing’s Haze

B. The Damage of Beijing’s Haze

C. WHO Suggests Improving Beijing’s Air

D. What Caused Air Pollution in Beijing

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.B

【解析】

试题分析：本文主要以北京为例谈论了雾霾天气对人体的不良影响等。

1.C考查判断推理题。根据文章第一段的第二句中的“she held her breath...她摒住呼吸……”以及“It gave her husband a cough and left her seven­year­old daughter housebound这让她丈夫咳嗽并把女儿留在家里”，根据这些事实判断雾霾对人体造成极大的危害。故选C。

2.B考查细节理解题。根据文章第二段的The extended heavy pollution over the last month, which caused punishment in return for a day last week-called the “airpocalypse” by Internet users-has largely changed the way that Chinese think about the country’s air过去的这个月份蔓延的空气重污染，这种引起了对上周被因特网民戏称为“雾霾”的惩罚已经大面积地改变了人们过这个国家空气的考虑方式。由此判断选B。

3.B考查主旨大意题。文章首段讲雾霾对Hu Li一家的影响；第二段讲严重的雾霾对市民生活造成的具体影响；尾段讲高浓度的PM 2.5的具体危害，B项涵盖了以上内容。从全文大意中可推断出答案是B。

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