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今日练习题为阅读题，题目如下

文章：

Eco efficiency (measures to minimize environmental impact through the

reduction or elimination of waste from production processes) has become a goal

for companies worldwide, with many realizing significant cost savings from such

innovations. Peter Senge and Goran Carstedt see this development as laudable but

suggest that simply adopting eco efficiency innovations could actually worsen

environmental stresses in the future. Such innovations reduce production waste

but do not alter the number of products manufactured nor the waste generated

from their use and discard; indeed, most companies invest in eco efficiency

improvements in order to increase profits and growth. Moreover, there is no

guarantee that increased economic growth from eco efficiency will come in

similarly eco efficient ways, since in today’s global markets, greater profits

may be turned into investment capital that could easily be reinvested in

old-style eco-inefficient industries. Even a vastly more eco efficient

industrial system could, were it to grow much larger, generate more total waste

and destroy more habitat and species than would a smaller, less eco efficient

economy. Senge and Carstedt argue that to preserve the global environment and

sustain economic growth, businesses must develop a new systemic approach that

reduces total material use and total accumulated waste. Focusing exclusively on

eco efficiency, which offers a compelling business case according to established

thinking, may distract companies from pursuing radically different products and

business models.

1. The primary purpose of the passage is to

A explain why a particular business strategy has been less successful than

was once anticipated

B propose an alternative to a particular business strategy that has

inadvertently caused ecological damage

C present a concern about the possible consequences of pursuing a particular

business strategy

D make a case for applying a particular business strategy on a larger scale

than is currently practiced

E suggest several possible outcomes of companies’ failure to understand the

economic impact of a particular business strategy

正确答案：

C

解题思路：

A 文章从没说这个经济策略是否会成功，也没预测过。

B 但是没有这样一个方法实际上被提出。

C line5-7和最后一句话 ，提出建议只是在关心的基础之上，总体还是讲对这个特殊的经济策略的关心。因此选C

D 文章指出了这个策略的缺陷，并没有支持这种策略的扩张。

E 文章关心的是环境的影响，并不关心经济的影响。

2. The passage implies that which of the following is a possible consequence

of a company’s adoption of innovations that increase its eco efficiency?

A Company profits resulting from such innovations may be reinvested in that

company with no guarantee that the company will continue to make further

improvements in eco efficiency.

B Company growth fostered by cost savings from such innovations may allow

that company to manufacture a greater number of products that will be used and

discarded, thus worsening environmental stress.

C A company that fails to realize significant cost savings from such

innovations may have little incentive to continue to minimize the environmental

impact of its production processes.

D A company that comes to depend on such innovations to increase its profits

and growth may be vulnerable in the global market to competition from old-style

eco-inefficient industries.

E A company that meets its eco efficiency goals is unlikely to invest its

increased profits in the development of new and innovative eco efficiency

measures.

正确答案：

B

解题思路：

问题问的是 下面选项里面哪一个是一个可能的后果，对于a company’s adoption of innovations that increase

its eco efficiency?

定位原文：Peter Senge and Goran Carstedt see this development as laudable but

suggest that simply adopting eco efficiency innovations could actually worsen

environmental stresses in the future.

大概是说adopting eco efficiency innovations可以使环境变坏。

说到环境变坏的选项只有B。

3. According to the passage, an exclusive pursuit of ecoefficiency may cause

companies to

A neglect the development of alternative business models and products

B keep the number of products that they manufacture unchanged

C invest capital from increased profits primarily in inefficient and outmoded

industries that may prove unprofitable

D overemphasize the production process as the key to increasing profits and

growth

E focus more on reducing costs than on reducing the environmental impact of

production processes

正确答案：

A

解题思路：

读题目an exclusive pursuit of eco efficiency may cause companies to

那么回原文定位必定是有exclusive pursuit of eco efficiency

发现在文章结尾那句话

Focusing exclusively on eco efficiency, which offers a compelling business

case according to established thinking, may distract companies from pursuing

radically different products and business models.

选项里面提到products和business models的只有A了。