题目内容
6.Not everyone's tasteHave you ever imagined that one day everything your body needs will come in powder form and all you have to do is add water?Soylent,a drink developed by a group of us engineers,claims it can do just that.It can provide your body with all the nutrients it needs and for as long as you want.You don't have to eat any other food.This April,Soylent shipped its first products to consumers in the US.
Robert Rhinehart is the 25-year-old co-founder and chief executive of the firm selling the drink.He found himself spending too much time and money searching for nutritious meals while he was working in San Francisco.
An electrical engineering graduate,Rhinehart began to consider food as an engineering problem."You need amino acids and lipids.not milk itself,"he was quoted as saying by The New Yorker:"You need carbohydrates,not bread."He began to think that food was an inefficient way of getting what he needed to survive.
Rhinehart hopes his product can be a game changer in the food business.But Soylent may potentially be good for the environment,too.According to a Guardian article,food production is responsible for 30percent of greenhouse gas emissions.But to completely replace our daily meal with a bland-tasting drink?Not many people are enthusiastic about the idea.
After all,most of us see food as not merely fuel,but also a pleasure.New York Times writer Farhad Manjoo lived largely on Soylent for a week and a half.He declares that"everything about Soylent screams function,not fun,"thinking it"the most joyless new technology to hit the world since we first laid eyes on.MS.DOS."
Lizzie Widdicombe,who wrote The New Yorker's article on Rhinehart,also tried out Soylent.With Soylent,you"cruise"through the day.If you are working at your computer and feel hungry,you don't have to stop for lunch.You can always be productive.
And here lies Soylent's downside,Widdicombe says:"Meals provide punctuation to our lives:we're constantly recovering from them,expecting them,riding the emotional ups and downs of a good or a bad sandwich.With a bottle of Soylent on your desk,time stretches before you,featureless and a little sad."
32.What's the purpose of the first paragraph?A
A.To introduce the topic.
B.To advertise for a new drink.
C.To test the readers'imagination.
D.To attract readers'participation.
33.What do Rhinehart's words in Paragraph 4imply?C
A.Food is not enough to feed us.
B.Milk and bread are beneficial to us.
C.It is what contains in the food that matters.
D.Milk and milk are different sources of food.
34.What is Farhad Manjoo's attitude to Soylent?C
A.Positive
B.Doubtful
C.Negative
D.Neutral
35.What's the disadvantage of Soylent according to Widdicombe?B
A.It makes people go hungry easily.
B.It removes some functions of meals.
C.It isn't environmentally friendly,
D.It causes emotional ups and downs.
分析 本文讲述了Soylent这样一种可以代替吃饭的功能性的饮料,以及它所引起的争议.
解答 32.A.理解推断题.由下文Soylent,a drink developed by a group of us engineers,claims it can do just that,Soylent,一种由一群美国工程师发明的饮料声称它所能做到这点,接着文章对这种饮料做了介绍,可知第一段是引出话题的,故选A.
33.C.理解推断题.由下一句He began to think that food was an inefficient way of getting what he needed to survive,他认为食物的有效之处在于它可以让人们获得所需要生存的物质,可知他认为食物所包含的物质更为重要,故选C.
34.C.理解推断题.由倒数第三段He declares that"everything about Soylent screams function,not fun,"thinking it"the most joyless new technology to hit the world since we first laid eyes on.MS.DOS.可知他认为人类这样太看清世界、只追求功能性的做法是无趣的,可推知是他的态度是负面的,故选C.
35.B.理解推断题.由最后一段Meals provide punctuation to our lives,饭为我们的生活提供标点符号,With a bottle of Soylent on your desk,time stretches before you,featureless and a little sad,而一瓶Soylent饮料却毫无特色、无需时间,可推知这样的饮料已经没有饭的一些功能,故选B.
点评 本篇阅读较为简单.文章内容,所出题目以及选项也较短,因此考生只要阅读详略结合,细心理解,就能快速得出正确答案.
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