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Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
I believe very strongly that our overproduction of cheap grain in general, and corn in particular, has a lot to do with the fact that three-fifths of Americans are now overweight. The obesity crisis is complicated in some ways, but it's very simple in another way. Basically, Americans are on average eating 200 more calories a day than they were in the 1970s. If you do that and don't get correspondingly more exercise, you're going to get a lot fatter. Many demographers are predicting that this is the first generation of Americans whose life span may be shorter than their parents'. The reason for that is obesity, essentially, and diabetes specifically.
Where do those calories come from？ Except for seafood, all our calories come from the farm. Compared with the mid-to-late 1970s, American farms are producing 500 more calories of food a day per American. We're managing to pack away 200 of them, which is pretty heroic on our part. A lot of the rest is being dumped overseas, or wasted, or burned in our ears.
Overproduction sooner or later leads to overconsumption, because we're very good at figuring out how to turn surpluses into inexpensive, portable new products. Our cheap, value-added, portable corn commodity is corn sweetener, specifically high-fructose(高糖)com syrup. But we also dispose of overproduction in corn-fed beef, pork, and chicken. And now we're even teaching salmon to eat corn, because there's so much of it to get rid of.
There is a powerful industrial logic at work here, the logic of processing. We discovered that corn is this big, fat packet of starch(淀粉)that can be broken down into almost any basic organic molecules and reassembled as sweeteners and many other food additives. Of the 37 ingredients in chicken nuggets, something like 30 are made, directly or indirectly, from corn.
Which of the following best summarizes the passage？
A．Overproduction of corn products leads to overweight.
B．Corn is the most popular portable product in America.
C．Corn processing is a powerful industrial logic at work.
D．A balanced diet of corn is beneficial to one's life span.
Crop Problem
Advances in technology have helped more of the world's population live better and longer, and that is part of our problems Better health standards have kept larger number of people alive. The world's population is now almost four billion and expected to double in 25 years. Growing population and slowly rising living standards have increased our need for food at the rate of 30 million tons per year. As a result, the world's stockpile of food(食物储备) is declining by about 10 million tons per year.
From the early 1950s until 1972 , world food production increased greatly. The Green Revolution (绿色革命) extended scientific techniques to agriculture in the form. of hybrid seed (杂交种)and poultry (禽类), chemical fertilizers (化学肥料) and pesticides (杀虫剂), and complex irrigation systems. Strains (品种) of corn (玉米), sorghum (高粱), soybeans (大豆), wheat and rice were developed to flourish under particular climate and soil conditions.
In the United States, corn production rose to 110 bushels(蒲式耳：谷物、水果、蔬菜等容量单位，在英国相当于36, 368升，在美国相当于35, 238升) per acre from only 26 bushels per acre in the early 1900s. Milk production rose to 10, 000 pounds per cow per year, compared with 600 in India. Chickens were bred to eat less, grow to maturity in shorter time, and produce more eggs. As a result of such scientific advances, our twelve midwestern states alone now feed one fourth of the world's people.
Crop disaster in 1972 brought an apparent end to the growth in production. Much of the extra yields had come from the use of chemical fertilizers, primarily petroleum based and now in short supply. The drop in world supplies of petroleum-based fertilizers is expected to cause a drop in crop yields of ten tons for each one ton decline in fertilizers applied.
This presents a particular problem for underdeveloped nations that often lack the foreign exchange necessary for buying fertilizer. The problem is so severe that Philip Handier, president of the National Academy of Sciences, has predicted one million child deaths per month in these nations by the year 2025.
The expected world population will reach ______ in 25 years.
A．2, 000, 000, 000
B．4, 000, 000, 000
C．6, 000, 000, 000
D．8, 000, 000, 000
Crop Problem
Advances in technology have helped more of the world's population live better and longer -- and that is part of our problem!
Better health standards have kept larger number of people alive．The world’s population is now almost four billion and expected to double in twenty-five years．Growing population and slowly rising living standards have increased our need for food at the rate of 30 million tons per year．As a result, the world's stockpile of food (食物储备) is declining by about 10 million tons per year．
From the early I950s until 1972, world food production increased greatly．The GreenRevolution (绿色革命) extended scientific techniques to agriculture in the form. of hybrid seed (杂交种) and poultry(禽类), chemical fertilizers (化学肥料) and pesticides(杀虫剂), and complex irrigation systems．Strains(品种) of corn (玉米), sorghum (高粱), soybeans（大豆）, wheat and rice were developed to flourish under particular climate and soil conditions．
In the United States, corn production rose to 110 bushels (蒲式耳：谷物、水果、蔬菜等容量单位相当于=36 368升,在美国相当于 35 238升) per acre from only 26 bushels per acre in the early 1900s．Milk production rose to 10 000 pounds per cow per year, compared with 600 in India, Chickens were bred to eat less, grow to maturity in shorter time, and produce more eggs．As a result of such scientific advances, our twelve Midwestern states alone now feed one fourth of the world’s people．
Crop disaster in 1972 brought an apparent end to the growth in production．Much of the extra yields had come from the use of chemical fertilizers, primarily petroleum based and now in short supply．The drop in world supplies of petroleum-based fertilizers is expected to cause a drop in crop yields of ten tons for each one ton decline in fertilizers applied．
This presents a particular problem for underdeveloped nations that often lack the foreign exchange necessary for buying fertilizer．The problem is so severe that Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences, has predicted one million child deaths per month in these nations by the year 2025．
第 41 题 The expected world population will reach______in 25 years．
A．2 000 000 000
B．4 000 000 000
C．6 000 000 000
D．8 000 000 000
If you dont eat a more ______ dinner, youll be hungry later on.
A．vast
B．considerable
C．resourceful
D．substantial
听力原文： My wife and I accidentally go to a nice restaurant to eat. My wife's mother lives with us and she stays with the children. This makes it very easy for us to go out for the evening.
Last week we went to the restaurant in a new hotel. We had a wonderful meal. First, we had soup. Then Helen, my wife, had beef with carrots, and I had beef with potatoes. For dessert, I had some ice cream and Helen had fresh fruit. We had several cups of coffee after we finished eating. The food was delicious, the quantity was large, and it wasn't too expensive.
Our children don't like to eat in restaurants because they have to sit and be quiet for a long time. They would rather go to their grandmother's farm. Their grandmother -- my mother prepares everything they like. She usually has fried chicken, corn, and hot biscuits with honey. She always serves plenty of chocolate ice cream and cake for dessert.
I'm always surprised that my father doesn't weigh a lot more when I see how much he eats. But he works very hard on the farm from about 5 o'clock in the morning until it gets dark in the evening.
When my parents visit us in the city, we usually take them to a restaurant; I know they enjoy it, but my father always eats something else after he gets home. The quantity may be large in the restaurant, but it is still not large enough for a hungry farmer.
Who stays with the children when the speaker goes out？
A．His mother.
B．His wife's mother.
C．The servant.
Why do we eat Yuanxiao today？
A．Because it's a tradition.
B．Because it' s a kind of tasty food.
C．Because we love our country.
D．Because this food can make money.
Should We Eat Living Foods or Dead Foods？
Why should this question arise？
Because the peoples of America and the world suffer grievously from widespread disease. Recent research has revealed that the quality of nutrients we put into our bodies determines the quality of our lives. We are all aware that engines perform. well or poorly, depending upon the quality of the fuel used. Few of us realize that food quality directly determines our physical and mental performance abilities.
I frequently receive phone calls and letters that go like this: Is it okay to eat corn？ Potatoes？ Bread？ Prepared cereals？ Beans？ Tofu？ And many other substances which must be cooked in order to be eaten.
What questioners really meant was why these foods aren't okay？ I must then tell them of the many evils and curses that result from the eating of foods that have been heat deranged(扰乱). I tell them: "If you can't relish(享受) it in the fresh raw state, you shouldn't be eating it at all. " To save myself a lot of letters and communications, I will, in this article, spell out many of the salient reasons why "dead" foods should never enter the human mouth.
The First thing I do with writers and callers is present the benefits of the living food enormous diet. For instance I might say: Living food eaters have more energy and stamina.
Then I get the inevitable "why" which is a way of saying "prove it." I proceed to heighten their curiosity with further statements like:
Those who live on living foods are better rested and better slept in less time.
Those who eat most living foods are more alert, think clearer, sharper and more logically.
Those who undertake the eating of live foods, especially in conjunction with an exercise regime(生活方式), experience drastic weight loss. This is great for those people who need to lose weight.
Those who rely upon living foods become more active and precise in their motions and actions as well as their thoughts. Hence they perform. much better and with more competence.
Living food eaters are less subject to stresses and nervous tensions than conventional eaters. Moreover, if an exercise regime of 15 to 30 minutes a day is followed, they are even less subject to stress.
Living food eaters become virtually sickness-free!
Of course a great deal of skepticism is often expressed after all, they need dispensation(特赦) as well as justification for their love affairs with pizza, bread, potatoes and so on. They may even tell me that this is all just anecdotal, that is, just like old wives tales. I then tell them: "Why not try it yourself and experience the wonderful results. Then you can tell your own experiences anecdotally just as you are now anecdotally expressing your skepticism." Then I proceed to start putting the clinchers(关键性的话) on my case as follows:
In nature all animals eat living foods as yielded up by nature. Only humans cook their foods and only humans suffer widespread sicknesses and ailments.
Only humans regularly and .consistently suffer premature death. Natural death in humans is so rare that it isn't even listed as a cause of death in our almanacs or statistics.
Then the question often arises: "What's so terrible about cooking foods？ Everybody does it."
To which I respond: "Just about everybody has cavities, poor eyesight that requires glasses, colds and other sicknesses, don't they？" Then I answer further with some statements and citations that are obviously true:
Cooking is a process of food destruction from the moment heat is applied to the foodstuff.
Long before dry ashes result, food values are totally destroyed. If you put your hand for just a moment into boiling water, or on a hot stove, that should forever persuade you just
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
A．Carbohydrates.
B．Indirect fat.
C．Body fluid.
D．Fat.
Which of the following statements is TRUE？ A．All kinds of food are good to our health no matter how much we eat . B．Meat is the best food of all. C．Too much of any kinds of food is bad to one’s health. D．Vitamins are more useful than natural food.
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