1998年英语（1/1）

理解第一篇

Few creations of big teology capture the imagination like giant dams. Perhaps it is humankind’s long suffering at the mercy of flood and drought that makes the idea of f the waters to do our bidding so fasating. But to be fasated is also, sometimes, to be blind. Several giant dam projects threaten to do more harm than good.

The lesson from dams is that big is not always beautiful. It doesn’t help that building a big, powerful dam has bee a symbol of achievement for nations and people striving to assert themselves. Egypt’s leadership in the Arab world was ted by the Aswan High Dam. Turkey’s bid for First World status includes the giant Ataturk Dam.

But big dams tend not to work as intehe Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left -- all iurn fiant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely gees electricity.

Ahe myth of trolling the waters persists. This week, in the heart of civilized Europe, Slovaks and Hungarians stopped just short of sending iroops iention over a dam on the Dahe huge plex will probably have all the usual problems of big dams. But Slovakia is bidding for independence from the Czechs, and now needs a dam to prove itself.

Meanwhile, in India, the World Bank has given the go-ahead to the even more wrong-headed Narmada Dam. And the bank has dohis even though its advisors say the dam will cause hardship for the powerless and enviroal destru. The bes are for the powerful, but they are far from guaranteed.

Proper, stific study of the impacts of dams and of the cost and bes of trolling water help to resolve these flicts. Hydroelectric power and flood trol and irrigation are possible without building monster dams. But when you are dealing with myths, it is hard to be either proper, or stific. It is time that the world learhe lessons of Aswan. You don’t need a dam to be saved.

11. The third sentence of Paragraph 1 implies that ________.

[A] people would be happy if they shut their eyes to reality [B] the blind could be happier than the sighted

[C] over-excited people tend to vital things （C） [D] fasation makes people lose their eyesight

12. In Paragraph 5, “the powerless” probably refers to ________.

[A] areas short of electricity [B] dams without power stations

[C] poor tries around India （D） [D] on people in the Narmada Dam area

13. What is the myth ing giant dams?

[A] They bring in more fertile soil. [B] They help defend the try.

[C] They strengthen iional ties. （D） [D] They have universal trol of the waters.

14. What the author tries to suggest may best be interpreted as ________.

[A] “It’s no use g over spilt milk” [B] “More haste, less speed”

[C] “Look before you leap” （C） [D] “He who ughs st ughs best”