[問題]PP-test2 第六篇Q59.61(reading)

[elizabeth88]

Credit for first conceiving of the Earth as
a spaceship usually goes to the inventor and
philosopher Buckminister Fuller, a tireless and
enthusiastic proponent of what is now called “alternate
technology,” who began using the paradigm in
speeches at least as early as 1964. ”I wish to point
out vigorously to you that we are indeed aboard an
8,000-mile-diameter spherical space vehicle,” Fuller
remarked to a Senate subcommittee in 1969.
The spaceship image is powerful. It suggests
at once vulnerability, interdependence, and closure.
Spaceships are small and fragile in the depths of
space, prey to meteorites and radiation and able to
support life only so long as they remain intact. And
they are also thoroughly and completely closed
systems. There is no running down to the corner store
for something that has been forgotten: all
you have is what you have carried with you from the
launching pad. Every thing must be either used over or
used up. Crew members of a spacecraft do not
recycle because it is politically correct to do so; they
recycle because if they do not they will die.
All these qualities make the spaceship paradigm
far better than other proposed paradigms for modeling
a dynamic society on a finite planet. It is, nonetheless,
not entirely satisfactory. The primary problem lies in
its technological, human-constructed nature, which
suggests that technology is the answer to
environmental problems as well. Worse: it suggests
that when things begin to go wrong, the proper course
of action is to tinker with them. Both
of these assumptions are correct for machines but
dangerously misleading for the planet. Life is an
evolved system, not a designed one, and it cannot be
treated as though a quick look at the blueprints and a
couple of nails can cobble it up and make it run again.

59. What does the author mean by
stating The spaceship image is
powerful?

A.Earth and a spaceship have
important similarities.
B.The engines in spaceships need
to be enlarged.
C.Most people have a good idea
of how spaceships operate.
D.It is difficult to imagine the
complexities of travel in a
spaceship.
答案是A,為何不是C呢?

61. What does the author mean by
stating And they are also thoroughly
and completely closed systems?

A.There are frequent problems
with equipment on some
spaceships.
B.The crew of a spaceship
changes frequently.
C.There is insufficient room for
storage on spaceships.
D.Spaceships function as
independent units.
答案是D,不太懂文章的意思.