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The long years of food shortage in this’ country have suddenly given way to an apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked w
The long years of food shortage in this’ country have suddenly given way to an apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked w
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2011-01-23
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The long years of food shortage in this’ country have suddenly given way to an apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food. Rationing is virtually suspended, and overseas suppliers have been asked to hold back deliveries. Yet. instead of joy, there is widespread uneasiness and confusion. Why do food prices keep on rising, when there seems to be so much more food about? Is the abundance only temporary, or has it come to stay? Does it means that we need to think less now about producing more food at home? No one knows what to expect. The recent growth of export surpluses on the world food market has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly because a strange sequence of two successful grain harvests in North America is now being followed by a third. Most of Britain’s overseas suppliers of meat, too. are offering more this year and, home production has also risen.
But the effect of all this on the food situation in this country has been made worse by a simultaneous rise in food prices, due chiefly to the gradual cutting down of government support for food. The shops are overstocked with food not only because there is more food available, but also because people, frightened by high prices, are buying less of it.
Moreover, the rise in domestic prices has come at a time when world prices have begun to fall. with the result that imported food. with the exception of grain, is often cheaper than the home produced variety. And now grain prices, too. are falling. Consumers are beginning to ask why they should not be enabled to benefit from this trend.
The significance of these developments is not lost on farmers. The older generations have seen it all happen before. Despite the present price and market guarantees, farmers fear they are about to be squeezed between cheap food. imports and a shrinking home market. Present production is running at 51 per cent above prewar levels, and the government has called for an expansion to 60 per cent: but repeated Ministerial advice is carrying little weight and the expansion program is not working very well.
Which of the following could serve as the best title for the passage?
选项
A、Food Shortage or Abundance
B、The Shrinking Food Market
C、Farmers’ Confusion
D、Fight against Food Imports
答案
A
解析
篇章主旨题。文章主要讲了英国农民的两难境地,一方面是全国的粮食丰收,国内食品价格反而上涨,另一方面英国政府要求继续增加产量,所以A最佳。C也表达出了类似的意思,但过于直白,不适合做标题。B、D则相差太远,很容易排除。
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