2023届高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练：七选五专题二十六

高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练 七选五专题二十六 ① The worry was palpable this week: With D.C. under major air quality warnings due to massive wildfires in Canada, is it okay for kids to go to school? Should everyone be wearing masks? As a writer who covers climate change, it seems clear to me that during an event like this, there are a number of things everybody should know: Do your best to seal your house. It doesn’t just protect on days of poor air quality — it saves energy. When I got home and started to secure my house, I found the air quality levels weren’t terrible but weren’t always great, either. ____1____Levels were even higher in the basement of the house. I quickly found some potential culprits. _____2___This took about five minutes to fix. In my basement, the worst room in the house was the sole one that featured a window air-conditioning unit. I took it out and closed and latched the window. Measurements slowly began to get better. ____3_____Which is not to say it’s easy or straightforward. We’re told to ventilate our houses when cooking, especially if we have gas stoves, and when we have a lot of people over. Then we get a wildfire smoke event, and suddenly the same houses need to be well-sealed. It’s no wonder that people often find indoor air quality measures confusing. Don’t think of this as a single event Experts today are simultaneously predicting future pandemics and worsening climate change. ___4____ In this context, it seems pretty clear that air purifiers with HEPA filters and other measures are going to become increasingly common, like masks — which also, when of high quality and worn properly, help protect against wildfire smoke inhalation. The massive blazes will still be episodic events, hard to predict very far in advance and temporary in how they afflict us. But high-quality filters simultaneously remove pollution from other sources, ranging from smokers to the byproducts of burning from a gas range. ____5____ Meanwhile, indoor air quality measurement devices