2006年高考英语湖北卷试题及答案(12)

2006年高考英语湖北卷试题及答案

B. Because he had learnt to help others since childhood.

C. Because he held a higher position in the society.

D. Because he had been asked by the news agency to do so.

67.Which of the following best describes the boy?

A. Brave and polite.

B. Kind and smart.

C. Honest and thankful.

D. Shy and nervous.

D

An environmental group called the Food Commission is unhappy and

disappointed because of the sale of bottled water form Japan. The water is angrily argues in public, has traveled 10,000"food miles"before it reaches

Western customers." transporting water halfway across the world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty of water in the OK."It is also worried that we are wasting our fuel by buying praums（对虾）from

Indonesia(7,000 food miles) and carrots from South Africa(5,900 food miles).

Counting the number of miles traveled done by a product is a strange way of trying to tell the true situation of the environmental damage done by an

industry. Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energy efficient（高能效的）. It should be noted that a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck product transported hundreds of miles by sea. Besides ,the idea of "of miles"ignores the amount of fuel used in the production. It is possible to cut down your food miles by buying tomatoes grown in Britain rather than those grown in Ghana; the difference is that the British one will have been raised in heated greenhouses and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun.

What the idea of"food miles"does provide, however, is the chance to cut out Third World Countries from First World food markers. The number of miles

traveled by our food should, as I see it, be regarded as a sign of the success of the global（全球的）trade system, not a sign of damage to the environment.

68.The Food Commission is angry because it thinks that ____.

A.OK wastes a lot of money importing food products

B. some imported goods cause environmental damage

C. growing certain vegetables cause environmental damage

D. people waste energy buying food fro other countries

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