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ael Pollan are repeating Sinclair’s work, awakening a sleeping public to the unfortable realities of how we eat. Change is also ing from the very top. First Lady Michelle Obama’s White House garden has so far yielded more than 225 pounds of organic produce – and tons of powerful symbolism. 4 Sustainable food is also more expensive than conventional food and harder to find. And while large panies like General Mills have opened organic divisions, there is worry that the very definition of sustainability will be used by those panies only for their own good.But we can’t afford to remain in philosophizing about food. With the exhaustion of the soil, the impact of global warming and the inevitably rising price of oil – which will affect everything from fertilizer to supermarket electricity bills – our industrial style of food production will end sooner or later. As the developing world grows richer, hundreds of millions of people will want to shift to the same calorieheavy, proteinrich diet that has made Americans so unhealthy – demand for meat and poultry worldwide is set to rise 25% by 2015 – but the earth can no longer deliver. Unless Americans radically rethink the way they grow and consume food, they face a future of damaged farmland, emptiedout countryside, terrifying germs, higher health costs – and tasteless diet. Sustainable food has an 233。litist reputation, but each of us depends on the soil, animals and plants – and as every farmer knows, if you don’t take care of your land, it can’t take care of you.A. Some Americans are paying attention to such warnings and working to transform the way the country eats – farmers who are raising sustainable food in ways that don’t bankrupt the earth.B. A series of recalls involving polluted foods this year – including a case of salmonella poisoning from tainted peanuts that killed at least eight people and sickened 600 – has consumers rightly worried about the safety of their meals.C. But, despite increasing public awareness, sustainable agriculture remains a tiny enterprise: according to the most recent data from the . Department of Agriculture, less than 1% of American cropland is farmed organically.D. And when the rains e, the excessive fertilizer that helped to take so much corn out of the ground will be washed into the Mississippi River and down into the Gulf of Mexico, where it will help kill fish for miles around.E. Those hidden prices are the gradual damage of our rich farmland, cages for egglaying chickens so packed that the birds can’t even raise their wings and the horrible rise of antibioticresistant bacteria among farm animals. 第二節(jié) 根據(jù)短文所給的信息,用一個完整的句子解釋劃線句子的意思,并將答案寫在答題紙上。5. What does the underlined part in the last paragraph mean?題號:06 科目:英語填空(共10小題;每小題1分,共10分)閱讀下列的短文,在標有序號的空白處填入一個適當?shù)脑~,或填入括號中單詞的正確形式,并將序號及相應答案寫在答題紙。(共10小題;每小題1分,共10分)Mr. Dawson was an old man who always plained. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick a delicious apple, because old Dawson, they said, would e ① you with his ball bullet gun.One Friday, 12yearold Janet was going to stay ② night with her friend Amy. As they got close to Amy’s house, Amy suggested they cross over to the other side of the street. Like most of the children, Janet was scared of the