阅读理解(五) 人造肉+如何决定+网络真假
A [2019·门头沟二模]
The UK should start producing lab-grown meat to help solve the world’s food crisis (危机), according to a rearch group. A report by the Adam Smith Institute says meat made in a laboratory is better for the environment and would be cheaper than meat produced from farm animals.
Need for meat around the world is expected to increa by 70% by the year 2050. So could people be eating lab-grown meat in the future? Usually animals like cows are killed to produce the meat that people eat, but scientists have found a way to make meat in a laboratory without killing any animals.
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Animals are made up of cells (细胞). Scientists worked out how to take cells from an animal, like a cow, and multiply (繁殖) them in a dish. In the end from one tiny cell, tens of billions of cells can be grown. The join together to form meat.
In 2013, the first hamburger grown this way was eaten in London. It took a year to produce and cost over ￡200,000 to make. Dr Mark Post, who created the world’s first hamburger from meat grown in a lab, told the 华裔英文BBC it “tastes exactly the same as the meat we know”. When two food critics(评论家) tried the burger in 2013, one said it was “clo to meat” and another said it tasted like a real hamburger. It’s not just beef that is being created; companies are also working on other meat like turkey and chicken.日汉翻译
The Adam Smith Institute says moving away from the prent way meat is produced would help reduce greenhou emissions(排放) by up to 96% and free up 99% of the land ud in farming worldwide. They also think it will reduce chances of food poisoning(中毒) becau the meat is grown under such controlled conditions. Jamie Hollywood from the Adam Smith Institute also told the BBC lab-grown meat could be a lot cheaper. He says the price has gone down in five years from ￡200,000 to ￡8, so in the future it could be even less.
1.The main idea of Paragraph 3 is . ( )
A.what lab-grown meat is
B.how lab-grown meat is made
C.what lab-grown meat tastes like
D.when people can eat lab-grown meat
2.The writer mentions two food critics in Paragraph 4 to show that . ( )
A.lab-grown meat is cheaper
B.chicken can be made in the lab
ballotC.lab-grown meat tastes similar to animals’ meat
beauty expertousD.English people first tasted lab-grown meat
3.The writer probably agrees that . ( )
A.lab-grown meat will cau a lot of problems
B.lab-grown meat tastes better than animals’ meat
一磅鱼C.making lab-grown meat will cost too much money
D.lab-grown meat can help solve the world’s food crisis
4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? ( )
A.Could lab-grown meat be the future of food?
B.What does lab-grown meat taste like?
C.When could people eat lab-grown meat?
D.What is lab-grown meat and how is it made?
B [2019·东城一模]
I recently spent an evening trying to choo a cup on Amazon. Nearly an hour later, after having read countless reviews about dozens of kinds, I felt tired and simply gave up.
英语b级试题The next day, I happily bought the only kind the local store offered.
Too many choices make us tired and unhappy and lead us to avoid making a decision sometimes. Rearcher Barry Schwartz calls this “choice overload”. “As the number of options(可选择的事物) increas, the costs in time and effort of collecting the information needed to make a good choice also increa,” writes Schwartz. “The level of certainty people have about their choice decreas. And the possibility that they will regret their choice increas.”
Understanding how and why we make decisions can perhaps help us make better choices. We make poorer decisions when we are tired. The mind can only deal with so many options and make so many choices before it starts to lo energy. That’s why buys like candy bars and magazines at the checkout(付款处) in the store can be hard to resist. We’ve ud up all our good decision-making skills.
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The same goes for our workday. Making lots of decisions not only tires us, it can put us in a bad mood. That’s why it’s important to make your most important decisions in the morni
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ng rather than at the end of a tiring day.
When we’re tired, we often save our energy by making choices bad on a single factor(因素) like price, rather than considering all the other factors that go into making the best decision. Another study out of Columbia University shows that this happens when people are given a lot of features(特点) to choo from when buying a car. After a while, people start asking for the common option rather than carefully weighing each decision.
This can also happen when faced with a decision in your creative work. Given endless options of which route to take, we sometimes end up going with the more usual path simply becau it’s the easier way to go. So it’s important to put limits on your options, which can develop your creativity and help you make a better decision.
