Almost every day the media discovers an African American community fighting some form of environmental threat from land fills, garbage dumps, petrochemical plants, refineries, bus depots, and the list goes on. For years, residents watched helplessly as their communities became dumping grounds.
But citizens didn’t remain silent for long. Local activists have been organizing under the mantie of environmental justice since as far back as 1968. More than three decades ago, the concept of environmental justice had not registered on the radar screens of many environmental or civil rights groups. But environmental justice fits squarely under the civil rights umbrella. It should not be forgotten that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis on an environmental and economic justice mission in 1968, seeking support for striking garbage workers who were underpaid and whose basic duties exposed them to environmentally hazardous conditions.
In 1979, a landmark environm
A. the environmental justice issues were first brought to court in Houston
B. environmental activists cooperated in defying the U.S. government
C. the government intervention helped promote environmental justice
D. environmental problems attracted the attention of the government
进入新世纪以来，我国经济总量在世界的位次不断提升。1978年，我国GDP只有1482亿美元，居世界第十位。经过30多年的快速发展，2010年我国GDP达到58791亿美元，超过日本成为世界第二大经济体，仅次于美国。
主要农产品产量位居世界前列。2010年，我国粮食产量达到54641万吨，比1978年增长79.3%。棉花产量597万吨，增长1.8倍。油料产量3239万吨，增长5.2倍。近年来，我国谷物、肉类、籽棉、花生、茶叶、水果等农产品产量稳居世界第一位。
制造业大国地位初步确立。按照国际标准工业分类，2007年，在22个制造业大类中，我国在7个大类中名列第一，有15个大类名列前三。2009年我国制造业产出占世界的18.6%，比美国稍低1.3个百分点，位居世界第二。到目前为止，我国钢、煤、水泥、棉布等200多种工业品产量居世界第一位。
货物出口额跃居世界第一。1978年，我国货物进出口总额占世界贸易总额的比重不到1%，居世界第二十九位。2009年，我国货物出口额超过德国居世界第一位，货物进口额居世界第二位。2010年，我国货物进出口总额达到29728亿美元，创历史新高。
The Art of Writing Letters Letters-writing is becoming a lost art --- in fact the practice of writing personal letters is diminishing (减少，降低) to such an extent today that they threaten to become extinct (灭绝的，消失的). Since daily events are communicated by newspapers, radio, television and e-mails with great accuracy and dispatch, the circulation of general news --- which formed the chief reason for letters in the stagecoach (驿站马车；定期公共马车) and sailing –vessel days --- has no part in the hurried correspondence of the twenty-first century. Yet people do write letters, and there are still some who possess a gift (才能) for the fresh turn of phrase (措辞，表达方式) that we see in old letters. It may be, though, that in the past the average writing was no better than the average of today, for naturally, the unusually gifted letters are the ones that have been preserved for us over the years. Most people who wonder how they will ever fill a blank sheet of paper find that the difficult part of
A. you have paid much attention to his letter
B. you have not taken the letter seriously
C. his questions have upset you
D. he has not received the information he need.
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