For Professor Sears, part of the blame lies with “a society that regards profit as a supreme value, under the illusion that anything that’s technically possible is, therefore, morally justified”. Professor Sears also called the country’s dependence on its modern automobiles “terrible economics” because of the large horse-power used simply “moving one individual to work”. But he admitted that Americans had painted themselves into a corner by allowing the national economy to become so dependent on the automobile industry.
“The solution,” Dr. Weeinerman said, “is not to find a less dangerous fuel but a different system of inner city transportation. Because of the increasing use of cars, public transportation has been allowed to wither (衰弱) and grow worse, so that if you can’t walk to where you want to go, you have to have a car in most cities,” he declared. This, in turn, Dr. Weinerman contended, is responsible for the “arteriosclerosis (动脉硬化)” of public roads, for the pollution of the inner city and for the middle-class movement to the suburbs.
53.The main idea of the passage is that ____.
A. Americans are fond of their cars
B. public transportation in America is well-developed
C. American cars are too fast
D. automobiles endanger health
54. It can be inferred from the passage that ____.
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