2023年考研-考研英语二考试历年主人难题荟萃带答案.docxVIP

2023年考研-考研英语二考试历年主人难题荟萃带答案 卷I 一.单项选择题(共30题) 1.根据下面资料，回答36-40题 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dia Mirza and Adrian Grenier have a message for you: Its easy to beat plastic. Theyre part of a bunch of celebrities starring in a new video for World Environment Day—— encouraging you, the consumer, to swap out your single——use plastic staples like straws and cutlery to combat the plastics crisis. The key messages that have been put together for World Environment Day do include a call for governments to enact legislation to curb single-use plastics. But the overarching message is directed at individuals: Lead with your wallets. My concern with leaving it up to the individual, however, is our limited sense of what needs to be achieved. On their own, taking our own bags to the grocery store or quitting plastic straws, for example, will accomplish little and require very. little of us. They could even be detrimental, satisfying a need to have done our bit without ever progressing onto bigger, bolder, more effective actions———a kind of moral licensing that allays our concerns and stops us doing more and asking more of those in charge. While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping bags and straws, were ignoring the balance of power that implies that as consumers we must shop sustainably, rather than as citizens hold our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change. Its important to acknowledge that the environment isnt everyones priority——or even most peoples. We shouldnt expect it to be. In her latest book, Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things, Wellesley College professor Elizabeth R. DeSombre argues that the best way to collectively change the behavior of large numbers of people is for the change to be structural. This might mean implementing policy such as a plastic tax that adds a cost to environmentally problematic action, or banning single-use plastics altogether. India has just announce