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What does the hamburger say about our modern food economy? A lot, actually. Over the past several years Waldo Jaquith intended t
What does the hamburger say about our modern food economy? A lot, actually. Over the past several years Waldo Jaquith intended t
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2013-11-10
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What does the hamburger say about our modern food economy? A lot, actually. Over the past several years Waldo Jaquith intended to make a hamburger from scratch, to no avail. "Further (1)_____ revealed that it’s quite impractical— (2)_____ impossible—to make a hamburger from scratch," he writes. "Tomatoes are in season in the late summer. Lettuce is in season in spring and fall. Large mammals are(3)_____ in early winter. The process of making(4)_____ burger would take nearly a year and would inherently involve omitting some core hamburger(5)_____."
That the hamburger—our delicious and comforting everyman food—didn’t(6)_____ 100 years ago is a greasy, shiny example of all that is both right (7)_____ wrong with our modern food economy. (8)_____fertilizers, genetically modified crops, concentrated farming operations and global overnight shipping, much of the world was lifted out of starvation(9)_____ it could finally grow(10)_____ quantities of food with decreasing labor(11)_____.
But these same advances(12)_____ allow food to be grown out of(13)_____ and in all corners of the globe contribute to a whole host of environmental(14)_____. The "industrialization of food," as author Paul Roberts puts it, is an endless cycle driven by very small price(15)_____ that force food processors to(16)_____ more advanced techniques to produce even more food(17)_____ lower prices. This system will only be aggravated as food demand(18)_____. Recently David Tilman and Jason Hill of the University of Minnesota released a study(19)_____ that global food demand could double by 2050. It’s(20)_____ that our current, impractical food economy can sustain that demand.
(1)
选项
A、reflection
B、calculation
C、inquiry
D、search
答案
A
解析
上文提到Waldo Jaquith从零开始做汉堡.但徒劳无功。本句应是对上文的总结,空格要填入句子的主语,根据revealed that...(显示……)可知。reflection“反思”正确。calculation“计算”:inquiry“询问”;search“搜索”。
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