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高三毕业班第二次教学质量检测英语试题分类汇编
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2023届福建省高中毕业班4月适应性练习卷(二模)英语试卷
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Science fiction television has done a lot to shape how we view the meals of the future, from an evening dinner in pill form to machines giving us any meal we desire, on demand. ____16____ However, while these ideas for food creation are more than fifty years old, the way we produce and consume food has not changed very much. Even though there is enough food available today to feed the world, more than 870 million people do not have enough to eat. ____17____
With the global population expected to grow to more than nine billion by 2050, demand for food will only increase. No pills or machines have solved our food problems yet.
However, agricultural science has been responsible for saving huge numbers of lives. Science and technology helped us out of starvation during the 1960s and 70s when the world’s population exploded. ____18____ The result of this panic was the “green revolution”, which saw the introduction to farming of high production grains, improved irrigation systems and hybrid seeds, saving over one billion people from starvation
____19____ Having enough food is only the first step. There are complications with natural disasters, conflict, poverty and environmental problems. All these can mean that the food supply is put at risk ____20____ Many people are concerned about “playing around with nature”, adjusting how food looks and tastes and smells, and other human interferences(干预), all of which are widespread.
Anyhow, the world has not been completely saved from starvation, but we are on the way to get there.
A.Agricultural science was quite a success.
B.There are many complexities when dealing with food.
C.Modern science and technology of food contributes a lot.
D.Nobody would ever starve if food were this easy to obtain.
E.And it is unbelievable that hunger kills more people than disease does.
F.Then there are the issu