题目内容
Can better food create better people? This is the true idea that is driving the development of today’s farming quickly.
The future food is the best food. Scientists will put real-time sensors into our bodies that can read the information of what our bodies need. A personal health system will be able to study the information that the sensor provides before making a food order. Then the order will go to the local food supplier, who will get in touch with the food maker on the farm. The entire supply will be controlled by computer according to the needs of the end user. Food from restaurants will come in over a million kinds. Customers will be able to order the food that is really good for their health.
By 2050, a farm will use technologies that will leave today’s farming far behind. A farm, as shown by Despommier, a farming scientist, will be a 30-storey-tall building and used to grow plants without soil. The farms of the future will grow half-plant, half-animal products, and people will be able to control nature. Special crops will be grown in this controlled special space, such as short stalk corn, personalized fruits and vegetables.
Besides growing food , new ways will be found to “ grow ” products . We will also be able to control plants in other ways . For example , we will some day be able to “ train ” a tree to grow its branches into the shape of tables , coffee tables , chairs , or rocking chairs . Once these unusual branches are fully grown , farmers can walk up to the tree and harvest the rocking chairs by cutting them off , which is the same as harvesting apples or pears .
The entire production area in the future will be managed by a robot that travels up and down doing all the necessary jobs of planting , weeding , watering , and harvesting .
56. The real- time sensors in our bodies will find out .
A. what we like and what we hate B. whether we are healthy or not
C. how much food we need D. what food our bodies need
57. The food order goes to the local food supplier so that .
A. the needs of the end user will be well met
B. the food supplier will not waste any money
C. the food maker will know how to grow plants
D. the food supplier will know what healthy food is
58. What can we infer from Paragraph 3 ?
A. Crops will take longer to grow by 2050 .
B. In the future , there will be no animal products .
C. Crops in the future will be very different from today’s .
D. Crops in the future will grow without sunshine , water , or soil .
DACBC

Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.
The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster, population and economic trends. It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (营养不良) and heat-related health problems.
But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts on climate and risk, who questioned its methods and conclusions.
Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change. It projected that the number would double by 2030.
Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum’s report was “a methodological embarrassment” because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受伤害的) regions. Dr. Pielke said that “climate change is an important problem requiring our utmost (极度的) attention.” But the report, he said, “will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply flawed (有瑕疵的).”
However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers were rough estimates. He said the report was aimed at world leaders, who will meet in Copenhagen in December to negotiate a new international climate treaty.
In a press release describing the report, Mr. Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability(弱点) to climate hazards(危害)while still curbing (限制) the emissions of the heat-trapping gases. More than 90% of the human and economic losses from climate change are occurring in poor countries, according to the report.
【小题1】What is the finding of the Global Humanitarian Forum?
A.Global temperatures affect the rate of economic development. |
B.Rates of death from illnesses have risen due to global warming. |
C.Malnutrition has caused serious health problems in poor countries. |
D.Economic trends have to do with population and natural disasters. |
A.It was challenged by some climate and risk experts. |
B.It aroused a lot of interest in the scientific circles. |
C.It was warmly received by environmentalists. |
D.It caused a big stir in developing countries. |
A.Its statistics look embarrassing. |
B.It is invalid in terms of methodology. |
C.It deserves our closest attention. |
D.Its conclusion is purposely exaggerated. |
A.Its conclusions are based on carefully collected data. |
B.It is vulnerable to criticism if the statistics are closely examined. |
C.It will give rise to heated discussions at the Copenhagen conference. |
D.Its rough estimates are meant to draw the attention of world leaders. |
A.How rich and poor regions can share responsibility in curbing global warming. |
B.How human and economic losses from climate change can be reduced. |
C.How emissions of heat-trapping gases can be reduced on a global scale. |
D.How rich countries can better help poor regions reduce climate hazards. |
Paula Radcliffe, chasing a third London marathon title, says she has became a stronger person after her terrible experience at the 2004 Athens Games.
Radcliffe, who failed to complete the Olympic marathon and the 10,000m last August, said: "Athens made me a stronger person and it made me care less about criticism"
"In the past I wanted to please everyone, but now I am going to listen even more to the people around me."
She didn't care about criticism made at the weekend by Liz McColgan, who felt Radcliffe should have rested and let her body recover after her failure in Athens.
"Liz is someone I look up to but she hasn't spoken to me since last year and if she really cared for me, I'm sure she would have contacted me."
Instead Radcliffe won the New York City marathon just 11 weeks after Athens.
"In New York I wasn't in my best state but I did know I was good enough to win the race."
Radcliffe insisted her only goal in Sunday's race would be winning a third title and not chasing world records.
However, Radcliffe has not ruled out in the future chasing her "final" world record time and questioned sayings that marathon runners have the ability in their career to produce only four or five world-class times.
"I don't think that ——although I can't put a number on it," said. Radcliffe. "That changes from person to person."
Radcliffe is sure she can better her winning London 2003 performance at some point in the future. Following a successful three-month training period in the United States, the 31-year-old will chase a third title on Sunday after her first victory in 2002 and again 12 months later.
Radcliffe clocked a time of 2:18:56 in her first 42.2-kilometre race three years ago.
Afterwards she set a "mixed course" mark of 2:17:18 five months later in Chicago before lowering that to a time of 2:15:25 in the 2003 London event.
【小题1】Radcliffe’s failure in Athens made her___________.
A.develop respect for Liz | B.love people around her more |
C.rest for five months | D.face criticism calmly |
A.Radcliffe broke the world record in the New York City marathon. |
B.Radcliffe didn’t fully recover before the New York City marathon. |
C.Radcliffe won her first marathon title in the New York City marathon. |
D.Radcliffe had a 3-month training before the New York City marathon. |
A.if she has the ability to set a new world record |
B.if she can win another race though she has won many times |
C.how many times a marathon runner can set the world record |
D.if she has the ability to produce four or five world-class times |
A.one | B.two | C.three | D.four |
A.Practice makes perfect. | B.Well begun is half done. |
C.Where there is a will, there is a way. | D.A friend in nee![]() |