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英语专业四级阅读理解模拟题 A simple piece of rope hangs between some environmentally friendly Americans and their neighbors. On one side stand those who have begun to see clothes dryers as wasteful consumers of energy (up to 6% of total electricity) and powerful emitters of carbon dioxide (up to a ton of CO2 per household every year). As an alternative, they are turning to clotheslines as part of what Alexander Lee, an environmentalist, calls what-I-can- do environmentalism. But on the other side are people who oppose air-drying laundry outside on aesthetic grounds. Increasingly, they have persuaded comm