首页
登录
职称英语
I believe very strongly that our overproduction of cheap grain in general, a
I believe very strongly that our overproduction of cheap grain in general, a
游客
2024-02-23
10
管理
问题
I believe very strongly that our overproduction of cheap grain in general, and corn in particular, has a lot to do with the fact that three-fifths of Americans are now overweight. The obesity crisis is complicated in some ways, but it’s very simple in another way. Basically, Americans are on average eating 200 more calories a day than they were in the 1970s. If you do that and don’t get correspondingly more exercise, you’re going to get a lot fatter. Many demographers are predicting that this is the first generation of Americans whose life span may be shorter than their parents’. The reason for that is obesity, essentially, and diabetes specifically.
Where do those calories come from? Except for seafood, all our calories come from the farm. Compared with the mid-to-late 1970s, American farms are producing 500 more calories of food a day per American. We’re managing to pack away 200 of them, which is pretty heroic on our part. A lot of the rest is being dumped overseas, or wasted, or burned in our ears.
Overproduction sooner or later leads to overconsumption, because we’re very good at figuring out how to turn surpluses into inexpensive, portable new products. Our cheap, value-added, portable corn commodity is corn sweetener, specifically high-fructose(高糖)com syrup. But we also dispose of overproduction in corn-fed beef, pork, and chicken. And now we’re even teaching salmon to eat corn, because there’s so much of it to get rid of.
There is a powerful industrial logic at work here, the logic of processing. We discovered that corn is this big, fat packet of starch(淀粉)that can be broken down into almost any basic organic molecules and reassembled as sweeteners and many other food additives. Of the 37 ingredients in chicken nuggets, something like 30 are made, directly or indirectly, from corn. [br] Which of the following best summarizes the passage?
选项
A、Overproduction of corn products leads to overweight.
B、Corn is the most popular portable product in America.
C、Corn processing is a powerful industrial logic at work.
D、A balanced diet of corn is beneficial to one’s life span.
答案
A
解析
主旨推断。一开篇作者就表明了观点:谷类特别是玉米的生产过剩与超重有很大的关系。选项B)曲解第3段第1句的意思。选项C)是第4段第1句,但非全文主题。选项D)与文章无关。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3475847.html
相关试题推荐
Bothbotany(植物学)andzoologyarepartsofamoregeneralfieldofscience,bi
Bothbotany(植物学)andzoologyarepartsofamoregeneralfieldofscience,bi
Bothbotany(植物学)andzoologyarepartsofamoregeneralfieldofscience,bi
Bothbotany(植物学)andzoologyarepartsofamoregeneralfieldofscience,bi
Bothbotany(植物学)andzoologyarepartsofamoregeneralfieldofscience,bi
Bothbotany(植物学)andzoologyarepartsofamoregeneralfieldofscience,bi
Bothbotany(植物学)andzoologyarepartsofamoregeneralfieldofscience,bi
Bothbotany(植物学)andzoologyarepartsofamoregeneralfieldofscience,bi
Bothbotany(植物学)andzoologyarepartsofamoregeneralfieldofscience,bi
Bothbotany(植物学)andzoologyarepartsofamoregeneralfieldofscience,bi
随机试题
吉利数字(auspiciousnumber)在中国文化一直起着重要的作用。不少人认为数字6、8、9吉利,因为它们跟一些具有积极含义的汉字发音相同或相近
WhydosomanyAmericansdistrustwhattheyreadintheirnewspapers?TheA
产权单位在办理备案手续时,应当向备案机关提交的资料不包括()。A.制造许可证
按照我国《婚姻法》中的亲等计算法,叔、伯与侄子之间属于( )。A.二代旁系血亲
利用参加能力验证计划的结果对实验室的能力进行判断时,使用()作为结论。A.
我国人民币公开市场操作自1998年5月26日恢复交易,并且其规模在逐步扩大。
古埃及训练一般的能专门从事某种专项工作的官员的职官学校又叫()A.文士学校
根据良好的公司治理和内部控制原则,商业银行市场风险管理组织架构应当能够()。A
某招标文件规定的最高投标限价为590万元,最低投标限价为480万元,招标
尺神经损伤的典型体征是( )。A.Froment征阳性 B.拇指对掌功能受限
最新回复
(
0
)