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【題目】 The UK should start producing lab-grown meat to help solve the world’s food crisis (危機), according to a research 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 increase 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.

Animals are made up of cells (細(xì)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. These 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 BBC it “tastes exactly the same as the meat we know”. When two food critics (評論家) tried the burger in 2013, one said it was “close 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.

The Adam Smith Institute says moving away from the present way meat is produced would help reduce greenhouse emissions (排放) by up to 96% and free up 99% of the land used in farming worldwide. They also think it will reduce chances of food poisoning (中毒) because 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 isB.how lab-grown meat is made

C.what lab-grown meat tastes likeD.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 meat can be made in the lab

C.lab-grown meat tastes similar to animal meat

D.English people first tasted lab-grown meat

【3】The writer probably agrees that ______.

A.lab-grown meat will cause a lot of problems

B.lab-grown meat tastes better than animal meat

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?

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】D

【4】A

【解析】

本文主要介紹了隨著人們對肉類的需求越來越大，英國開始生產(chǎn)實驗室種植的肉類，以幫助解決世界糧食危機，并且已經(jīng)生產(chǎn)出世界上第一個漢堡給食物評論家品嘗，以及之后還會生產(chǎn)更多其他的肉類。

【1】段落大意歸納題。A. 實驗室培育的肉是什么；B. 實驗室是怎么培育肉的；C. 實驗室培育的肉嘗起來怎么樣；D. 人們什么時候可以吃到實驗室培育的肉；根據(jù)第三段文章的理解可知，主要講述了，實驗室如何生產(chǎn)肉的一個過程，所以選擇B。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。A. 實驗室培育的肉更便宜；B. 雞肉能在實驗室被培育出來；C. 實驗室培育的肉嘗起來和動物肉很相似；D. 英國人第一次嘗實驗室培育出的肉；根據(jù)第四段理解及one said it was “close to meat” and another said it tasted like a real hamburger.可知，選擇C。

【3】推測題。A. 實驗室生產(chǎn)的肉將會引起很多問題；B. 實驗室生產(chǎn)的肉比動物肉更好；C. 制作實驗室培育肉將會花費太多錢；D. 實驗室培育的肉將會解決世界食物危機；根據(jù)文章的理解和文章第一句話The UK should start producing lab-grown meat to help solve the world’s food crisis (危機), according to a research group.可知，選擇D。

【4】標(biāo)題歸納題。A. 實驗室培育的肉類會成為未來的食品嗎?；B. 實驗室培育的肉是什么味道?；C. 什么時候人們可以吃實驗室培育的肉?；D. 什么是實驗室培育的肉，它是怎么制成的?；根據(jù)整篇文章的理解可知，選擇A最合適，其他答案不能代表全文大意。