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【題目】An environmental group called the Food Commission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sales of bottled water from Japan. The water, it angrily argues in public, has traveled 10,000 “food miles” before it reached Western customers. Transporting water halfway across the world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty of water in the UK. It is also worrying that we were wasting our fuel by buying prawns from Indonesia (7,000 food miles ) and carrots from South Africa (5,900 food miles).

Counting the number of miles traveled done by a product is a strange way of trying to tell the true situation of the environmental damage due to industry. Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energy efficient. It should be noticed that a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck to a farmers’ market doesn’t necessarily use less fuel on its journey than a similar product transported hundreds of miles by sea. Besides, the idea of “food miles” ignores the amount of fuel used in the production. It is possible to cut down your food miles by buying tomatoes grown in Britain rather than those grown in Ghana. The difference is that the British ones will have been raised in heated greenhouse and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun.

What is the idea of “food miles” does provide, however, is the chance to cut out Third World countries from First World food markets. The number of miles traveled by our food should, as I see it, be regarded as a sign of the success of the global trade system, not a sign of damage to the environment.

【1】The Food Commission is angry because it thinks that ________.

A. UK wastes a lot of money importing food products

B. some imported goods causes environmental damage

C. growing certain vegetables causes environmental damage

D. people wasted energy buying food from other countries

【2】The phrase “food miles” in the passage refers to the distance ________.

A. that a food product travels to a market

B. that a food product travels from one market to another

C. between UK and other food producing countries

D. between a Third World country and a First World food market

【3】By comparing tomatoes raised in Britain and in Ghana, the author tries to explain that ________.

A. British tomatoes are healthier than Ghanaian ones

B. Ghanaian tomatoes taste better than tomatoes ones

C. cutting down food miles may not necessarily save fuel

D. protecting the environment may cost a lot of money

【4】From the passage we know that the author is most probably ________.

A. a supporter of free global trade

B. a member of a Food Commission

C. a supporter of First World food markets

D. a member of an energy development group

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】C

【4】A

【解析】

試題分析:該篇文章通過運送食物而帶來的巨大浪費提醒世人多食用本地生產的食物，而避免食物循環(huán)的浪費。

【1】D考查細節(jié)理解題。文章第一段談到食物委員會認為運送事物是能源的一種浪費。可知選D項。

【2】A 考查判斷推理題。我們知道日本、英國均屬于“First World”，考查在特定的語境下對詞組的理解能力。進口的食品也不是僅僅是英國，可排除Ｃ、Ｄ選項。Ｂ項沒有道理，根據理解Ａ才符合“food miles”的含義，即從產地到市場所走的距離，故選A。

【3】C考查判斷推理題。依據第二段可以得知作者將英國種植的西紅柿與加納種植西紅柿進行比較，是表明即使在英國種植食品，也需要fuel，不一定能節(jié)約fuel。故選C項。

【4】A 考查推理判斷題。A. a supporter of free global trade全球自由貿易的支持者；B. a member of a Food Commission一家食品協(xié)會的成員；C. a supporter of First World food markets世界第一家食物市場的支持者；D. a member of an energy development group一能量發(fā)展集團的成員。文章最后一段作者很清楚的表達了自己的觀點�！癟he mummer of miles traveled by our food should, as I see it be regarded as a sign of the success of the global trade system, not a sign of …”即知作者的態(tài)度，故選A。