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[Reading Comprehension]
试题详情
文章：
| Line | Among the myths taken as fact by the |
| environmental managers of most corporations is | |
| the belief that environmental regulations affect all | |
| competitors in a given industry uniformly. In reality, | |
| (5) | regulatory costs—and therefore compliance— |
| fall unevenly, economically disadvantaging some | |
| companies and benefiting others. For example, a | |
| plant situated near a number of larger | |
| noncompliant competitors is less likely to attract | |
| (10) | the attention of local regulators than is an isolated |
| plant, and less attention means lower costs. | |
| Additionally, large plants can spread compliance | |
| costs such as waste treatment across a larger | |
| revenue base; on the other hand, some smaller | |
| (15) | plants may not even be subject to certain |
| provisions such as permit or reporting | |
| requirements by virtue of their size. Finally, older | |
| production technologies often continue to generate | |
| toxic wastes that were not regulated when the | |
| (20) | technology was first adopted. New regulations |
| have imposed extensive compliance costs on | |
| companies still using older industrial coal-fired | |
| burners that generate high sulfur dioxide and | |
| nitrogen oxide outputs, for example, whereas new | |
| (25) | facilities generally avoid processes that would |
| create such waste products. By realizing that they | |
| have discretion and that not all industries are | |
| affected equally by environmental regulation, | |
| environmental managers can help their companies | |
| (30) | to achieve a competitive edge by anticipating |
| regulatory pressure and exploring all possibilities for | |
| addressing how changing regulations will affect their | |
| companies specifically. |
题目：
According to the passage, which of the following statements about sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide outputs is true?
选项:
A、Older production technologies cannot be adapted so as to reduce production of these outputs as waste products.
B、Under the most recent environmental regulations, industrial plants are no longer permitted to produce these outputs.
C、Although these outputs are environmentally hazardous, some plants still generate them as waste products despite the high compliance costs they impose.
D、Many older plants have developed innovative technological processes that reduce the amounts of these outputs generated as waste products.
E、Since the production processes that generate these outputs are less costly than alternative processes, these less expensive processes are sometimes adopted despite their acknowledged environmental hazards.
答案:
C
提问：
这题我在BC之间纠结，选C是从下面两个方向入手的吗？首先是Finally后面，提出了仍然有生产技术继续产生有害物质；其次是new regulation给生产这些有害物质的企业强加了税费，而不是说不能产生这些有害物质？
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这题我在BC之间纠结，选C是从下面两个方向入手的吗？首先是Finally后面，提出了仍然有生产技术继续产生有害物质；其次是new regulation给生产这些有害物质的企业强加了税费，而不是说不能产生这些有害物质？
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老师，您好。这题我选了A，有些不太理解答案为什么是C。我当时在看C选项时觉得 文中并没有说到 “一些plant 即使知道高成本 依旧会持续generate sulfur dioxide 和 nitrogen oxide”，所以觉得这个选项是过度推理，给排除了。能麻烦您解释一下吗？
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New regulations have imposed extensive compliance costs on companies still using older industrial coal-fired burners that generate high sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide outputs, for example, whereas new facilities generally avoid processes that would create such waste products.定位到了这句话，答案选择了D，不明白为什么选C
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老师，这题的C选项我有点不太懂，文章中提到的是，会给仍在使用就技术生产二氧化硫和一氧化氮的公司大量的extensive cost，但是C选项说的尽管有大量的cost，他们还是继续使用旧设备，生产出有害气体。我感觉这两个选项有点出入您能详细解释一下吗？
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