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
Miss Wang has met Professor Kennedy before.
Miss Wang has met Professor Kennedy before.
admin
2009-06-24
71
问题
Miss Wang has met Professor Kennedy before.
Kennedy: Come in, please.
Wang: Good afternoon, Professor Kennedy.
Kennedy: Good afternoon. I have been expecting your first visit to my home.
Wang: It is an honor to be invited to meet you at your home.
Kennedy: My honor, too. Have a seat and be at home.
Wang: Thank you.
Kennedy: Coffee or some juice?
Wang: Juice will be all right.
Wang: Thanks....Very nice apple juice.
Kennedy: You seemed to have told me that you are from Shandong, where you grow very good apples.
Wang: Yes, you certainly have a very good memory since there are about 50 students in our class.
Kennedy: But not so many Chinese, ha, ha, ha...
Wang: I’ve been in the U.S. for more than three years, and I have been convinced that the American people are enjoying very good material life.
Kennedy: You are right partly, I’m afraid. You should know the other side of the matter.
Wang: What do you mean exactly?
Kennedy: Well, the Americans are wasting the most materials in the world, too.
Wang: I’ve heard so. But I don’t know much about it.
Kennedy: Oh, it’s easy to know. If you go look into garbage cans, you’ll find that the average family wastes at least $150 per year in food.
Wang: Wow, that’s unbelievable!
Kennedy: That’s true. Homemakers go out of their way to save pennies at store and they don’t realize that waste of edible foods adds up much more at home.
Wang: This is interesting. People save at stores but waste more at home.
Kennedy: That is the point. American families throw out between 8 and 20% of edible food at a cost of $4.5 billion per year.
Wang: Gee, that’s almost as much as the federal government spending every year for food stamps and child nutrition programs. I learned the figure in my class.
Kennedy: Good.
Wang: But on what did you base your estimates?
Kennedy: I based my estimates on an annual garbage collection study by my Arizona research group, measuring food wasted in the Tucson area.
Wang: But is the Tucson area typical?
Kennedy: Well, I know it is rather presumptuous to make national estimates based on Tucson-area studies. But...there’s no other data available.
Wang: No doubt your study is very valuable.
Kennedy: In somewhat of a paradox, food items which are costly and in short supply tend to be wasted more...
Wang: Is that so?
Kennedy: Yes. During the 1983 meat shortage, meat waste increased to 9%, compared with 3% in 1984 and 1985.
Wang: Is it because meat easily gets bad?
Kennedy: No. Sugar and sugar products waste jumped to 19% in 1985, 5% higher, when sugar prices doubled from the previous year.
Wang: What conclusion have you drawn from your study, Professor Kennedy?
Kennedy: My conclusion is that high prices force consumers to experiment, sometimes buying in large quantities. In the case of meat, sometimes low-priced cuts or unappetizing varieties are purchased. Consumers then tend to waste more. The more variety in food bought, the more wasted.
Wang: Very amazing.
Kennedy: There are more examples. You see, regular bread is wasted at about a 10% rate, but specialty breads and rolls are wasted at a 20% rate.
Wang: Why is that?
Kennedy: If people are eating the same thing every day, they learn how to manage it. But if you’re trying to pull something out of the Captain Bochelle cookbook every night, there’s bound to be some waste.
Wang: But aren’t you talking about the middle class or the rich families?
Kennedy: Oh, so long as the lower-income families are concerned, in the Tucson area, they waste less food than middle and upper-income families. And the study found that dog food, which accounts for 8% of a shopping cart, is rarely wasted.
Wang: Ha, dogs know better the value of food!
Kennedy: I have never thought of that!
Wang: This is really an interesting topic to study in. I’ve certainly learned a lot this afternoon. I really want to talk to you more, but I’m afraid I have to be going, for I have another appointment at 5:00.
Kennedy: It’s nice to talk to you. Please come any time you want.
Wang: Thank your very much, Professor Kennedy. Good-bye.
Kennedy: See you later.
选项
A、Right
B、Wrong
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/MMHd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Hecollapsedfollowingavigorousexercisesessionathishome.
NaturalMedicinesSinceearliestdays,humanshaveusedsomekindsofmedicines.Weknowthisbecausehumanshavesurvived.An
Hisnewgirlfriendhadomittedtotellhimthatshewasmarried
CulturalDifferencesPeoplefromdifferentculturessometimesdothingsthatmakeeachotheruncomfortable,sometimeswithou
Thetiesymbolizesallofthefollowingexcept______.WhichofthefollowingisNOTasocialoccasion?
Thebookprovidesaconciseanalysisofthecountry’shistory.
Thequestionraisedinthefirst.paragraphisone______.WhatDr.Reinhornsaidinthelastparagraphmayimplyallthefollo
Thequestionraisedinthefirst.paragraphisone______.Asurprisingdiscoverymadebytheinvestigatorsduringtheirvisit
ToHaveandHaveNotIthadbeenboringhangingaboutthehotelallafternoon.Theroadcrewwereplayingagamewithdollar
随机试题
骨样骨瘤
患者女,15岁。首次出现兴奋,言行紊乱10天入院。患者10天前因中考成绩不理想,父母批评了她,之后出现了兴奋,经常往外跑,帮陌生人的忙,并有自言自语的现象,似乎在和人对话,自己每到一个地方,都觉得有人跟踪她,为她安排一切,容易发脾气,摔东西。患者目前服
出血性梗死主要发生在
下列关于国际竞争性招标的适用条件的描述中,不正确的是()。
用铜电极电解CuCl2水溶液时,其阳极的电极反应主要是( )。
具有法人条件的事业单位、社会团体,依法不需要办理法人登记的,从()起,具有法人资格。
()主要针对那些完成任务所需的知识技能比较缺乏的员工。
我们之所以要坚持“以团结互助为荣,以损人利己为耻”,是因为()。
(1)______是指CPU一次可以处理的二进制数的位数,它直接关系到计算机的计算精度、速度等指标;运算速度是指计算机每秒能执行的指令条数,通常用(2)_______为单位来描述。(2)______A.MBB.HzC.MIPSD.B
路由器的DHcP允许配置DHCP数据库代理。可以使用______命令取消地址冲突日志的记录功能。
最新回复
(
0
)