Chinese people are seeing blue skies and they are happy as well they should be. The increasing number of cars, coal plants and wind patterns large cities across China make the skies grey.  

As Gardiner Harris, a reporter from India wrote recently in the New York Times: “Foreigners have lived in Delhi for centuries, of course, but the air and the mounting research into its effects have become so frightening that some feel it is unethical for those who have a choice to willingly raise children here. Similar discussions are doubtless underway in Beijing and other Asian cities, but it is in Delhi — among the most populous, polluted, unsanitary and bacterially unsafe cities on earth — where the new calculus seems most urgent. The city’s air is more than twice as polluted as Beijing’s.

Fortunately the Chinese government is becoming sensitive to the situation and putting in place programs that will if properly rolled out and enforced succeed in reducing this very serious problem.  Last year on a normal high particulate grey day in Beijing, Li Keqiang, the prime minister, declared “war” on air pollution. What this really means is that regulators in the most polluted provinces are ordering mass closures of offending enterprises which in the past they would not have done given its impact on employment and GDP.  The good news is that the results may be felt faster than expected further empowering government officials to continue their efforts.

Here is looking forward to more and more blue skies across China.  

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1.The passage is mainly about________.

A the environment

B the weather

C the pollution

D the Chinese government

解析：选C。C 主旨大意题。根据文章第一段第一句“Chinese people are seeing blue skies and they are happy as well they should be”可知。

2.Gardiner Harris is from________.

A China

B India

C Singapore

D Japan

解析：选B。B 细节理解题。根据文章第二段第一句“As Gardiner Harris, a reporter from India wrote recently in the New York Times”可知。

3.Which of the following city is the most polluted?

A Beijing

B Delhi

C Tokyo

D Shanghai

解析：选B。B 细节理解题。根据文章第二段最后一句“The city’s air is more than twice as polluted as Beijing’s.”可知。

4.What does the underlined word unsanitary mean in Chinese?

A 不卫生的

B 不舒服的

C 不发达的

D 不顺利的

解析：选A。A 词义猜测题。根据前文“among the most populous, polluted”可知。这里的意思是不卫生的。

5.From the third paragraph, we can know_______.

A Beijing’s air is even worse than before.

B The Chinese government has taken actions about the air pollution.

C People are looking forward to more blue skies in the future.

D The Chinese government will build more factories for increasing GDP.

解析：选B。B 推理判断题。根据文章第三段第二句“Last year on a normal high particulate grey day in Beijing, Li Keqiang, the prime minister, declared “war” on air pollution. ”可知。