We can draw a conclusion from the text that

A．oil-price shocks are less shocking now

B．inflation seems irrelevant to oil-price shocks

C．energy conservation can keep down the oil prices

D．the price rise of crude leads to the shrinking of heavy industry

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A【解析】文章第三段第一句话“Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s．”表明这次的油价上涨不会像以前那样带来严重的后果。从文章最后一段“one more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that，…”来看，我们不会为石油价格的上涨而失眠，也说明了这次的上涨影响不会很大。故应选A。

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