首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
At the end of a recent feast at Restaurant Revolution in New Orleans, I ordered a cup of hot tea and was presented with an elega
At the end of a recent feast at Restaurant Revolution in New Orleans, I ordered a cup of hot tea and was presented with an elega
admin
2019-09-23
36
问题
At the end of a recent feast at Restaurant Revolution in New Orleans, I ordered a cup of hot tea and was presented with an elegant silver kettle filled with an intoxicatingly aromatic lemon brew. Another notable meal enjoyed not long ago at Fixe in Austin began with their house-iced tea, a black tea and fruit blend customized for them by a local "tea guru."
Tea has been a cherished beverage in the eastern hemisphere since the third millennium B.C., but didn’t make its way to the UK until late in the 17th century, where it enjoyed immediate popularity. Another two centuries later, southerners in the United States began drinking their sweet and iced tea, but not until recently has tea appreciation started to spread throughout the rest of North America. These days, it’s not uncommon to find
Earl Grey
in your cocktail or learn that your fried chicken was cooked in the stuff.
"I believe tea is still in its
infancy
in our country," says Zhena Muzyka, owner of Zhena’s Gypsy Tea, a Fair Trade Certified
TM
organic tea company, now in its 13th year. "It’s the second-most-consumed beverage in the world, but the sixth-most-consumed in the U.S."
But like a newborn, the U.S. tea industry is growing fast. Since 1990, Americans have quadrupled their tea consumption, bringing it to a US$10-billion industry in 2014, according to the Tea Association of the U.S. Tea imports to the U.S. have grown by 70 percent in the last two decades alone. Starbucks, which started selling more than two dozen varieties of loose-leaf tea at their first location in Seattle, bought high-end tea-shop chain Teavana in 2012.
The concurrent artisanal food and beverage trend means that as more Americans )earn to appreciate a cup of tea, they’re also more interested in the source of the leaves, making "Fair Trade" tea particularly attractive. Fair Trade U.S. calculates that just between 2012 and 2013, Fair Trade Certified tea — produced by cooperatives and farms — imports jumped by 26 percent.
Fair Trade certification ensures that farmers are guaranteed safe working conditions as well as a sustainable wage and fair capital, determined by the prices they set for their products. All workers also receive a Fair Trade premium, which they may choose to invest back into their farm or community.
"I believe that Americans love Fair Trade — they’ve
backed
it and bought it even when the economy was trashed," Muzyka says, recalling when tea first joined coffee, bananas, and cocoa on the short list of available Fair Trade Certified products.
Muzyka has visited Sri Lanka, India and China many times, growing closer with each visit to the families who grow and harvest the tea she uses for her blends. On conventional farms, a tea worker’s daily quota is 17.6 pounds of tea per day, or about 16,000 individual plucks of leaves, she says. This
strenuous
work is usually done on steep hillsides at altitudes of 5,000 feet or higher, and workers collect leaves into large baskets on their backs, which are held in place by a forehead strap.
Back when she was starting her company, Muzyka spent several years educating consumers and buyers at major grocery stores to choose Fair Trade suppliers over those without the certification. "I showed them the photos I’d taken in the conventional fields, and explained that the workers were being paid US$1.35 a day and unable to feed their families," she says.
The main idea of Paragraph 6 is______.
选项
A、farmers’ complaints about taxes
B、the key to pricing farm products
C、benefits from Fair Trade certification
D、the guide to farmers’ investment
答案
C
解析
主旨题。根据第6段,该项认证可以确保茶农获得以下几个方面的保障:安全的工作环境、可持续增长的工资和资金以及保险费。这些均为茶农获得的福利,故选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/yCMO777K
本试题收录于:
CATTI二级笔译综合能力题库翻译专业资格(CATTI)分类
0
CATTI二级笔译综合能力
翻译专业资格(CATTI)
相关试题推荐
Afterits(1)tothe(2)in2001,Chinahastakenstepstowardsopeningupits(3).AsaconditionforjoiningtheWTO,China(
TheblackpeopledidnotvoteinAmericain1941.
Whichofthefollowingistrueaboutthepolitician?
A、learningprocessinparticularB、eitherofthetwoprocessesC、theinteractionsbetweenthetwoprocessesD、maturationprocess
TheTrendsofChineseTouristsTravellingAbroadVocabularyandExpressionsshoppingtourdutyfreeproductsTahitiM
Whatwasitoriginallycalled?
Exercisehelpstokeepusingoodhealth.Butwhataboutthosetimeswhenyouaresick?Expertshaveageneralruleofthumb.It’
Theterm"leader"hasbeenusedalmosttothepointof【C1】______,nowbrandinganyonewho【C2】______inaleadershiprole.Butthe
Uganda’seagernessforgenuinedevelopmentisreflectedinitsschoolchildren’ssmilesandinthefactthatsomanychildrenare
Perhapsallthisaddsuptoabeliefinwhathasbeencalledthehumanuseofhumanbeings.Wearesetofffromtherestofthe
随机试题
魔棒是根据图像中颜色的相似性来选择________。
场外交易的特点包括()
胰腺癌首选无创性检查方法是
就病例对照研究而言,下述哪项是正确的
A.指关节梭状畸形B.杵状指C.匙状甲D.浮髌现象E.肢端肥大支气管扩张常表现为
A.年龄B.药物因素C.给药方法D.性别E.用药者的病理状况儿童和老人慎用影响水、盐代谢及酸碱平衡的药物
地图集的编制1)任务概述为反映××省面貌和发展成就,向国内外介绍××省投资环境,招商引资,促进××省的发展,××省人民政府决定编纂《××省地图集》(以下简称《图集》)。该《图集》将是一本公开发行的综合性省情地图集。2)编图资料情况(1)1:25万地
你是新上任的副镇长,根据镇政府的决议给下属安排工作,在会上同时有几个下属提出理由不能执行,使你很难堪,你该怎么办?
HardTimes,CharlesDickens’shortestnovel,waswrittenandpublishedin1854.Despitethesensationalsuccessofitstwoimmed
Wearegettingexcitedandlookingforwardto______thenewmovieandthemoviestars.
最新回复
(
0
)