【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 tain chemical, a pany designs its new plant to employ processes that avoid use of that chemical.E. A plant attempts to save money by refusing to ply with environmental laws.GWD9Q10 G9Q10:According to the passage, which of the following statements about sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide outputs is true?A. Older production technologies cannot be adapted so as to reduce production of these outputs as waste products.B. Under the most recent environmental regulations, industrial plants are no longer permitted to produce these outputs.C. Although these outputs are environmentally hazardous, some plants still generate them as waste products despite the high pliance costs they impose.D. Many older plants have developed innovative technological processes that reduce the amounts of these outputs generated as waste products.E. Since the production processes that generate these outputs are less costly than alternative processes, these less expensive processes are sometimes adopted despite their acknowledged environmental hazards.GWD911 G9Q11:The passage suggests which of the following concerning the relationship between the location of a plant and the pliance costs it faces?A. A plant is less likely to face high pliance costs if it is located near larger plants that are in violation of environmental regulations.B. An isolated plant is less likely to draw the attention of environmental regulators, resulting in lower pliance costs.C. A large plant that is located near other large facilities will most probably be forced to pay high pliance costs.D. A small plant that is located near a number of larger plants will be forced to absorb some of its neighbors’ pliance costs.E. A plant will often escape high pliance costs if it is located far away from environmental regulatory agencies.GWD9Q12:A mosquito bite can transmit to a person the parasite that causes malaria, and the use of mosquito nets over children’s beds can significantly reduce the incidence of malarial infection for children in areas where malaria is mon. Yet public health officials are reluctant to remend the use of mosquito nets over children’s beds in such areas. Which of the following, if true, would provide the strongest grounds for the public health officials’ reluctance?A. Early exposure to malaria increases the body’s resistance to it and results in a lesser likelihood of severe lifethreatening episodes of malaria.B. Mosquito bites can transmit to people diseases other than malaria. C. Mosquito nets provide protection from some insect pests other than mosquitoes.D. Although there are vaccines available for many childhood diseases, no vaccine has been developed that is effective against malaria.E. The pesticides that are most effective against mosquitoes in regions where malaria is mon have significant detrimental effects on human health.GWD9Q13:Fact: Asthma, a bronchial condition, is much less mon ailment than hay fever, an allergic inflammation of the nasal passages.Fact: over 95 percent of people who have asthma also suffer from hay fever.If the information given as facts above is true, which of the following must also be true?A. Hay fever is a prerequisite for the development of asthmaB. Asthma is a prerequisite for the development of hay feverC. Those who have neither hay fever nor asthma prise less than 5 percent of the total populationD. The number of people who have both of these ailments is greater than the number of people who have only one of themE. The percentage of people suffering from hay fever who also have asthma is lower than 95 percent.GWD9Q14:The Eurasian ruffe, a fish species inadvertently introduced into North America’s Great Lakes in recent years, feeds on the eggs of lake whitefish, a native species, thus threatening the lakes’ natural ecosystem. To help track the ruffe’s spread, government agencies have produced walletsized cards about the ruffe. The cards contain pictures of the ruffe and explain the danger they pose。 the cards also request anglers to report any ruffe they catch.Which of the following, if true, would provide most support for the prediction that the agencies’ action will have its intended effect?A. The ruffe has spiny fins that make it unattractive as prey.B. Ruffe generally feed at night, but most recreational fishing on the Great Lakes is done during daytime hours.C. Most people who fish recreationally on the Great Lakes are interested in the preservation of the lake whitefish because it is a highly prized game fish.D. The ruffe is one of several nonnative species in the Great Lakes whose existence threatens the survival of lake whitefish populations there.E. The bait that most people use when fishing for whitefish on the Great Lakes is not attractive to ruffe.GWD9Q15:Dressed as a man and using the name Robert Shurtleff, Deborah Sampson, the first woman to draw a soldier’s pension, joined the Continental Army in 1782 at the age of 22, was injured three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she had bee too ill to serve.A. 22, was injured three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she had beeB. 22, was injured three times, while being discharged in 1783 because she had beeC. 22, and was injured three times, and discharged in 1783, beingD. 22, injured three times, and