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Unit 3 Pets
单元话题完形填空练习
(2023·上海杨浦·统考二模)
CREEPY-CRAWLIES
The superfood of the future?
The number of people in the world is growing fast—every year there are about 70 million more people. So, we’ve got two questions that need answers: have we got enough space on our planet for so many people and how can we 1 we’ve all got enough food to live?
Many people eat too much meat—steaks, beef burgers, sausages, etc. That’s not good for us and we need big farms to produce all that meat. The farms already use 30% of all the world’s land: they create greenhouse gases and use a lot of water and energy. However, we can do something to 2 .We can eat meat only one or two days a week, for example, and eat more vegetables—that’s healthy. We can eat some different types of meat—creepy-crawlies 3 ! That’s right, grasshoppers, worms, flies and lots of other insects. They’re the superfood of the future. They’ve got a lot of protein. Protein is very important for our health, and it’s good for our hair and our skin.
Protein keeps our muscles and bones in good condition as well.
There are two more reasons why insects are good food 4 insect farms don’t need so much water and energy. Also, they don’t use so much space.
For some people in countries in Asia and Latin America, eating insects is not 5 . But for people in Europe and many other countries, it seems very strange.
What about you? Do you eat any healthy food? How much meat do you eat in a week? Perhaps you think you don’t eat insects? But maybe you’re 6 . Why’s that? Because the red food colouring that is in many things that we eat comes from an insect called the cochineal beetle.
1.A.deal with B.make sure C.find out D.point out
2.A.help B.worry C.warn D.survive
3.A.never B.still C.yet D.too
4.A.choices B.diets C.menus D.lists
5.A.unlucky B.unnecessary C.unimportant D.unusual
6.A.true B.mad C.wrong D.natural
(2023·上海崇明·统考二模)“Mom, are you ready?”
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