2018年06月四级第2套选词填空原文翻译及答案解析

Since the 1940s, southern California has had a reputation for smog. Things are not as bad as they once were but, according to the American Lung Association, Los Angeles is still the worst city in the United States for levels of __26__. Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred by the haze (霾). Nor is the state's bad air __27__ to its south. Fresno, in the central valley, comes top of the list in America for year-round pollution. Residents' hearts and lungs are affected as a __28__. All of which, combined with California's reputation as the home of technological __29__, makes the place ideal for developing and testing systems designed to monitor pollution in __30__. And that is just what Aclima, a new firm in San Francisco, has been doing over the past few months. It has been trying out monitoring stations that are __31__ to yield minute-to-minute maps of __32__ air pollution. Such stations will also be able to keep an eye on what is happening inside buildings, including offices.

自20世纪40年代以来，南加州一直以烟雾污染著称。情况已不如从前糟糕，但根据美国肺脏协会的数据，洛杉矶仍是美国污染物水平最高的城市。从位于圣莫尼卡山脉的盖蒂中心艺术博物馆俯瞰城市，你会发现太平洋的景色因雾霾而变得模糊。该州的空气质量问题不仅限于南部地区。位于中央谷地的弗雷斯诺在美国全年污染排行榜上位居榜首。居民的心肺因此受到影响。所有这些因素，加上加州作为技术创新发源地的声誉，使该地区成为开发和测试详细污染监测系统的理想之地。而这正是旧金山新公司Aclima过去几个月一直在做的事情。它一直在测试旨在生成室外空气污染逐分钟地图的监测站。这些监测站还能监控建筑物内部的情况，包括办公室。

To this end, Aclima has been __33__ with Google's Street View system. Davida Herzl, Aclima's boss, says they have revealed pollution highs on days when San Francisco's transit workers went on strike and the city's __34__ were forced to use their cars. Conversely, "cycle to work" days have done their job by __35__ pollution lows.

为此，Aclima一直与谷歌街景系统合作。Aclima的老板Davida Herzl表示，他们揭示了在旧金山交通工人罢工、居民被迫使用汽车的日子里出现的污染高峰。相反，'骑车上班'日经常通过降低污染水平发挥了作用。