When did you last visit a shopping mall? In many places, the answer would be “l(fā)ast weekend.” Some people go even more often. Why? For one thing, malls offer goods and services that people need all in one place: food, clothing, things for their houses, entertainment, even medical services. So, are malls one of the highlights of modern civilization? Environmental activists would say No! They would go even further and say that consumer behavior is causing a huge environmental disaster. They cause consumers of ignorance of the side effect of their shopping—urban sprawl (擴大) .
Social scientists agree that patterns of development have changed the landscape a great deal in the last half century. Before 1950, most people lived in towns or cities and either walked to work or took public transportation. Only very wealthy people had automobiles. Farmers lived in rural areas or isolated villages and came into town only when they needed things they couldn’t produce themselves. If you gazed at the landscape you would see towns surrounded by countryside. Then a massive change occurred.
Automobiles became affordable and people were quick to adopt them. Now ambitious workers could live in the suburbs, the areas just outside cities, which started to grow rapidly. As long as there was lots of cheap land in the suburbs, no one paid much attention to the usage of that land. Malls, fast food restaurants, cinemas, and car dealerships spread out in large, flat buildings. These one–storey buildings and their parking lot took up a great deal space. Well– meaning farmers thought they were better off selling their land than growing crops. In ignorance, no one realized that once the land was built up in urban sprawl, the good farming land would be ruined forever. There was no way to preserve it.
Only in recent years have people come to mourn the old way of life as they have developed insight into the problems. Now people realize that urban sprawl has come with serious environmental problems. The negative aspects of sprawl include air and water pollution, loss of agricultural land, traffic jams, and the death of businesses in the old town centers. Many scholars think the time has come to analyze the problems better so we can develop appropriate policies to control further sprawl. Some think the best way to do is to educate citizens about their priceless environment.
小題1:What is mainly discussed in the passage?
A．Weekend FunB．Urban SprawlC．New AutomobilesD．Isolated Villages
小題2:What does the underlined word “They” refer to in the first paragraph?
A．ScientistsB．Activists.C．Farmers.D．Malls
小題3:Who do environmental activists blame for environmental problems?
A．Endangered animals.B．Shopping mall owners.
C．Unthinking shoppers.D．Ambitious farmers.
小題4:What do scholars think should be done about urban sprawl?
A．Understand the situations better.B．Follow customary policies.
C．Start school in shopping malls.D．Charge polluters a lot of money.
小題5:What is the scholars’ attitude toward urban sprawl?
A．Respectful.B．Negative.C．Positive.D．Doubtful.

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:C
小題4:A
小題5:B

試題分析：越來越多的購物商場給人們帶來的便利，但是也造成了都市擴大的問題，隨之而來的是環(huán)境的破壞，空氣的污染。權(quán)威人士認(rèn)為要通過分析問題讓市民引起重視，制定相關(guān)的政策解決問題。
小題1:主旨大意題。第一段“They cause consumers of ignorance of the side effect of their shopping—urban sprawl. ”，第三段“In ignorance, no one realized that once the land was built up in urban sprawl”以及第四段“Now people realize that urban sprawl has come with serious environmental problems. ”中都提到“urban sprawl”，故B項正確；A、 C、D三項雖然在文中出現(xiàn)了，但都是細(xì)節(jié)，不是主題。They cause consumers
小題2:詞義猜測題。根據(jù)第一段“For one thing, malls offer goods and services that people need all in one place: food, clothing, things for their houses, entertainment, even medical services. So, are malls one of the highlights of modern civilization? ”可知They指的是“購物中心”，選D
小題3:推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段“They would go even further and say that consumers? behavior is causing a huge environmental disaster. ”可知，行動主義者認(rèn)為消費者盲目、不計后果的消費造成了這一后果，故C 項正確。
小題4:推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段“Many scholars think the time has come to analyze the problems better so we can develop appropriate policies to control further sprawl. Some think the best way to do is to educate citizens about their priceless environment. ”可知，權(quán)威人士認(rèn)為只有更好地分析問題讓市民引起重視，才能夠制定相關(guān)的政策解決問題，故A項正確。A
小題5:推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段最后兩句“Many scholars think. . . their priceless environment”可知他們是不贊同城市擴張的。選B
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