文章大意:这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了由于大规模封锁,许多餐馆、酒店和学校不得不暂时关闭,导致一些农民没有买家购买他们种植的作物,农民别无选择,只能烧掉数千万磅他们再也卖不出去的新鲜食物。
After weeks or even months of _________ about insufficient goods in grocery store and crazy fight to get the last box of noodles or toilet paper roll, a great number of the nation’s largest farms are struggling with another ___________ effect of Covid-19. They had no choice but to ____________ tens of millions of pounds of fresh food that they can no longer sell.
Due to the large-scale lockdown, many restaurants, hotels and schools have to be closed temporarily, leaving some farmers with no buyers to consume the crops they've grown. The amount of waste is astounding. ____________, the nation’s largest dairy company, Dairy MaMa of America, estimates that farmers are dumping as many as 4.9 million gallons of milk each day.
According to many farmers, they have __________ some of the surplus food to food banks and other food assistance programs, which have been ___________ with demand from the needy. But there is only so much food that may go bad easily, which ends up in landfill.
Besides, since the farmers have invested a lot in ____________, processing and transporting, they are now facing financial ___________ after the sales has been reduced to half. Reasonable as exporting food sounds, it is not so ___________either based on the fact that many international buyers are also running into the same crisis caused by pandemic
The noteworthy destruction of edible food — especially when many Americans are suffering from the virus financially and millions are suddenly ___________ — is an especially tragic reality. It indicates the profound economic chaos caused by the virus and how difficult it has been for different sectors of the economy, like agriculture, to ___________ such a sudden structural change in how they should operate and survive.
In the past decades, the nation’s food banks have go to great lengths to ________ from providing processed meals to offering fresh ____________. But the pandemic made it difficult to serve fruits and vegetables for a shortage of volunteers, because the transportation may be expensive and _____________
The situation has become especially ___________ in the dairy industry, where cows need to be milked multiple times a day , regardless of whether there are buyers.
21. A.panic | B.problems | C.doubt | D.puzzlement |
22. A.risky | B.side | C.ill | D.problematic |
23. A.set up | B.sell out | C.take up | D.burn up |
24. A.After all | B.In most cases | C.For example | D.Above all |
25. A.dumped | B.contributed | C.distributed | D.submitted |
26. A.dominated | B.overwhelmed | C.empowered | D.encountered |
27. A.grabbing | B.preserving | C.watering | D.harvesting |
28. A.condition | B.dilemma | C.gap | D.result |
29. A.feasible | B.flexible | C.remarkable | D.affordable |
30. A.unused | B.undefined | C.uninformed | D.unemployed |
31. A.apply to | B.adjust to | C.come to | D.take to |
32. A.transform | B.recover | C.shift | D.settle |
33. A.alternatives | B.appetites | C.honors | D.symbols |
34. A.stable | B.conclusive | C.time-consuming | D.labor-saving |
35. A.persistent | B.multiple | C.slight | D.severe |