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A、A supporter of free global trade. B、A member of the Food Commission. C、A supporter of First World food markets. D、A member of
A、A supporter of free global trade. B、A member of the Food Commission. C、A supporter of First World food markets. D、A member of
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2013-04-15
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问题
An environmental group called the Food Commission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sale of bottled water from Japan. The water, angrily argued in public, has traveled 10,000 "food miles" before it reaches 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 worried that we are wasting our fuel by buying prams from Indonesia (7,000 food miles) and carrots from South Africa (5,900 food miles).
Counting the number of miles traveled by a product is a strange way of trying to tell the true situation of the environmental damage done by an industry. Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energy efficient. It should be noted that a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck to a farmers’ market does not necessarily use less fuel on its journey than a similar product transported hundreds of miles by sea. Besides, the idea of "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 greenhouses and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun.
What 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.
26.Why is the Food Commission angry?
27.What does the phrase "food miles" mean according to the passage?
28.What does the speaker try to explain by comparing tomatoes raised in Britain and in Ghana?
29.Who is most probably giving this talk?
选项
A、A supporter of free global trade.
B、A member of the Food Commission.
C、A supporter of First World food markets.
D、A member of an energy development group.
答案
A
解析
选项均以A supporter/member开头表明,本题针对人物身份提问。问题询问的可能是谁做的这个演讲。做此类题型要根据说话者的观点判断身份。文中说话者对food miles这一概念提出质疑,认为它是全球贸易体系成功的标志,可见说话者是支持全球自由贸易的,故答案为[A]。
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