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冲刺2023年中考英语首字母填空临考押题(上海专用)06
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Walk or drive to work? Which way is lower in carbon? To be friendly to the environment, you may choose to walk. Have you ever tried to live a low-carbon life t____1____ your diet?
A new study from the University of Oxford has looked into the health and environmental e____2____ of 15 foods common in western diets. Among these, plant-based(基于植物的)foods included fruits, vegetables, nuts and potatoes. It also studied animal-based foods, including red meat, chicken, milk products, eggs and fish.
According to the study’s lead researcher, Michael Clark, “Choosing better and greener diets is one of the m____3____ ways people can improve their health and protect the environment.” That is to say, plant-based diets are much healthier for us and kinder to the environment.
To get this result, researchers c____4____ the influence of eating another portion(一份)of each food with the increased risk of a few illnesses. They also find out the environmental harm for each animal-based food and each plant-based food.
By using this m____5____, the study found that red meats were the most unfriendly foods to the environment. Keeping farm animals produces a large number of methane(甲烷) that keeps 30 times more heat than CO2. As well as making the earth warmer, eating too much red meat is known to increase the risk of a few illnesses, such as heart trouble.
Plant-based diets can give us the same health benefits in a much greener way. According to the study, w____6____ eating or using meat and milk products, global farmland use could be cut down by more than 75% and still feed the world.
Speaking to the Guardian, Tim Benton of Chatham House said, “If we can give people reasonable official advice of w____7____ a healthy and green diet is, the world and its people would be in a much better place.”(310词)
答案:1.through 2.effects 3.main 4.compared 5.method 6.without 7.what
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步行或开车去上班?哪种方式更低碳?为了对环境很友好,你可以选择步行。你有没有尝试过通过你的饮食来过低碳的生活?
牛津大学的一项新研究调查了西方饮食中常见的15种食物对健康和环境的