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：
Which of the following best describes the relationship of the statement about large plants (lines 12–17) to the passage as a whole?
选项:
A、It presents a hypothesis that is disproved later in the passage.
B、It highlights an opposition between two ideas mentioned in the passage.
C、It provides examples to support a claim made earlier in the passage.
D、It exemplifies a misconception mentioned earlier in the passage.
E、It draws an analogy between two situations described in the passage.
答案:
C
提问：
这道题我选的是E，我做题时候的想法是，large plant和smaller plant形成一个类比，所以选了E。我已经知道C为什么对了，请问老师，我是不是错在只看到关于大工厂和小工厂的对比，而没有注意到这个对比的作用。。
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我错选D。这种题我爱错因为作用分不清，自己还解释的头头是道，您看下我的思路谢谢。我想的是L12-17对比了大小企业在环境法规下可能遭受的不同影响，那么就是in reality中对于myth的一种例证说明，也就是这个例子紧跟着第一段for example这里additionally另外又接着举例子，进一步破除误解和迷信。因此D就是说的用例子in reality说明一种误解myths。老师帮我看下我的思路怎么卡住了，我该如何纠正这种错误思维。谢谢
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