热点51 确保粮食安全及其生产-备战2021年中考英语考前时事热点话题阅读+题型专练

备战2021年中考英语考前时事热点话题阅读+题型专练 热点51 确保粮食安全及其生产 一、阅读理解 1 An environmental group called the Food Commission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sales of bottled water from Japan. The water is angrily argues 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 OK." It is also worried that we are 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 done by an industry. Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energy efficient（节能）. It should be noted that a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck product transported hundreds of miles by sea. Besides, the idea of "food miles" ignores（无视）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 one will have been raised in heated greenhouses and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun. What the idea of "food miles" provide, however, is the chance to cut out Third World Countries from First World food markers. 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 cause environmental damage C. growing certain vegetables causes environmental damage D. people waste 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 fr