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发表于 2016-7-11 17:17:37
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Q21-25：
One point three billion metric tons -- that's how much food that we waste
each year. Not an easy number to wrap one's head around. Try to imagine 143,000
Eiffel Towers stacked one on top of the other-together they'd weigh around 1.3
billion tons. The sheer scale of the number makes it practically impossible to
grasp, no matter how you come at it.
Rendering the figure all the more unfathomable is the fact that alongside
this massive wastage of food, 840 million people experience chronic hunger on a
daily basis. Many millions more suffer from "silent hunger" - malnutrition and
micronutrient deficiencies.
For the more economically minded, here's another number: the economic cost
of food wastage runs around $750 billion per annum. This is expressed in
producer prices; if we were to consider retail prices and the wider impacts on
the environment including climate change, the figure would be far higher.
When food is lost or wasted, the energy, land and water resources that went
into producing it are also squandered -while at the same time large amounts of
greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere during production, processing,
and cooking.
We simply cannot tolerate the wastage of 1.3 billion tons of food per
year--one-third of the world's annual food production. There's a lot that can be
done. To begin with, food losses and waste need to be seen as a cross-cutting
policy issue, rather than a lifestyle choice to be left in the hands of
individual consumers and their consciences. The world needs to wake up to the
need for policies on food waste and losses that look at all stages of the food
chain, from production to consumption.
Losses of food--on farms, during processing, transport and at
markets--represent a thorn in the side of food security in most developing
countries, where post-harvest losses can reach as high as 40 percent of
production in some cases. Especially in these places, investment in
infrastructure for transportation, storage, cooling and marketing of food is
badly needed. Training farmers in best practices also has an important role to
play.
In developed countries, food retailing practices require a rethink. For
example, rejection of food products on the basis of aesthetic concerns is a
major cause of food waste. Some supermarkets have already begun relaxing
standards on fruit appearance, selling "misshaped" items at reduced prices and
helping raise awareness that "ugly does not mean bad." More approaches like
this, that find markets or uses for surplus food, are needed.
Both businesses and households should monitor to see where and how they
waste food and take corrective steps, because prevention of waste is even more
important than recycling or composting. Unlike the mindboggling figure of 1.3
billion tons, these simple steps are easy enough to grasp-and within reach of
each of us. The world has enough on its plate-food wastage is something we can
all do something about now.
这篇文章非常好读，是一篇社会热点类话题文章，讲述了浪费食物的现象，并且提出相应的建议。
前四段列举了大量的数据，甚至还举例、打比方，其实统统可以略去，考生只要看到关键词wastage of food就看懂文章主题了。
从第五段开始，作者就提出了建议。There’s a lot that can be done就提示了考生，应该做一些标记了。
第六段提出developing countries应该怎么做，第七段提出developed countries应该怎么做，最后一段指出both
businesses and households应该怎么做。结构非常清晰，本文不难。
前三题全考细节题，细心核对即可。第四题考到了最难的一种细节题，问四个选项哪个正确，一个一个回去原文定位便可得出答案，作者明显是呼吁每一个人行动起来。第五题题干中的best
title表示这是很典型的主旨题，出现关键词food wastage的选项就是正确的答案。
Q26-30:
这篇文章是一篇经济类话题的文章，正如课上所言，经济类话题是中高口阅读常见的高频话题，但是难度其实并不大，一般来说，并不太会考查太过艰深晦涩的专业知识，还是以通俗类文章居多。
开篇第一句Starting up a business is easier in the service sector than in
manufacturing，考生可以看出这篇文章的主题。Start
up这个词组我们在课上讲过，表示“创业、启动”。服务业创业比起制造业创业要容易一些，是不是和我们上课时所讲的强对比信息吻合呢?而这正是文章的主体内容，整篇文章都是在讲服务业创业和制造业创业进行对比，体现出的不同点。
考生在阅读过程中只要做好标记，标注出信息所在即可，后续考到就能很方便地定位。而文章后面的题目也几乎全都是细节题，注意细心核对便可顺利完成，难度不大。
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