时文阅读：以色列“人造牛奶”
如果有人端上一杯牛奶，并告诉您，这和奶牛无关，是实验室“造”出来的，您会是什么反应？没错，继人造肉之后，人造牛奶也闪亮登场了。据说，人造牛奶在口味上和普通牛奶无异，不仅更加健康，而且能带来更多的环境效益。接下来就看看以色列Remilk公司的人造牛奶是怎么回事吧。
As people are becoming more socially conscious about where their food comes from and how it impacts the planet, they are choosing animal-free plant-bad options. Cow-free meat has been around for quite some time and the popularity of brands like Beyond Meat and cultivated meat from Aleph Farms and others are soaring. While there are a large number of plant-bad milk substitutes, none of them have the same taste of cow’s milk. Now, an Israeli food-tech startup Remilk created real dairy products without harming a single cow or the planet. The company stress that their product Remilk is not a milk substitute but rather is the real deal. Made from a special process called microbial fermentation（微生物发酵）, milk is manufactured in a lab instead of in a cow. And the end product is very healthy. “In a very simple way, we take the gene that encodes（编码）for the milk protein,” said Aviv Wolff, CEO of Remilk. “The gene functions as an instruction book for the
production of the protein it encodes. And so, we inrt the gene into a microbe that we’ve developed and it instructs our microbe to produce the specific protein in a very efficient way.”
The company says that the lab-produced milk tastes identical to the real thing and they hope to eventually replace cows by creating every dairy product sold. They expect to roll out plant-bad chee and yogurt in addition to milk. “Remilk was founded with the mission to stop using animals to produce our food becau, as dairy lovers, we realize that giving up on milk is not an opt ion,” Wolff said. “But today’s milk comes with an unreasonable price tag. The dairy industry is destructive to our planet, our health, and our animals, and is simply not sustainable anymore.”
The environmental price tag of dairy farming is way too high. According to the World Wildlife Fund, dairy cows add a huge amount of greenhou gass to the atmosphere and contribute to global warming and climate change as well as foul the air around them. Dairy operations consume large amounts of water and run-off of manure（粪肥）and fertilizers from the farms get into local waterways. The production of Remilk us only 5 percent of the resources and produces only 1 percent of the waste of producing cow’s milk according to the company. And
they accomplish this by being 100 percent cruelty-free unlike dairy farms.
1. What distinguishes Remilk from other milk substitutes?
A. It enjoys broad popularity.
雪梨冰糖水的功效B. It has the highest output.
C. It comes in various flavours.
D. It tastes the same as cow’s milk.
星座心理测试2. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. The production of Remilk.
B. The nutritional value of Remilk.
C. The role of gene in making protein.
D. The process of microbial fermentation.
童话故事的特点
3. What can we know from Wolff’s words in paragraph 3?
A. Remilk was t up for animal protection.
B. Dairy industries should be shut down.
C. Remilk aims to produce animal-free food.
D. Prices of cow’s milk are soaring the days.
4. What does the underlined word “foul” probably mean in the last paragraph?
A. Clean.
B. Heat.
C. Pollute.
D. Consume.
【参考答案】
1-4 DACC
生词
1. startup n. 新创办的小公司
冠心病的症状
2. end product n. 制成品
3. microbe n. 微生物
4. price tag n. 标价
5. way adv. 非常
6. run-off n. 地表径流
语块
roll out 正式推出（新产品）
The new model is to be rolled out in July.
这种新型号将在七月份推向市场。
知识拓展
1. Beyond Meat
Beyond Meat成立于2009年，总部位于美国。这家以素食汉堡闻名的公司通过专利技术和植物产品来生产人造肉，其创业理念是“肉类不必源自动物，却同样富含营养”。
2. Aleph Farms
离群索居的意思
水溶液Aleph Farms是一家无屠宰肉类供应商的食品公司。该公司在培养肉领域开辟了一条新道路，即用牛的细胞培育出美味的、真正的牛排，而不以伤害动物和破坏环境为代价。
3. Remilk乃至造句
Remilk是一家成立于2019年的食品科技公司。该公司采用微生物发酵技术生产牛奶蛋白，从而制造出安全、美味、与牛奶完全相同、不伤害一头奶牛的真正牛奶。
三年级上册英语第一单元4. World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
世界自然基金会于1961年成立，总部位于瑞士格朗。它是在全球享有盛誉的、最大的独立性非政府环境保护组织之一，致力于保护世界生物多样性及生物的生存环境，减少人类对这些生物及其生存环境的影响
