【推荐3】Indian food is so good that it’s worth traveling for. Various food festivals take place throughout India every year, celebrating everything from rice to mangos.

The Great Indian Food Festival

With more than 75 food stalls from 12 different states, this is perhaps the mother of all food festivals in India in terms of national variety. It takes place in Delhi, in early November, and not only features food from all over India, but various activities such as eating contests, cooking demonstrations and cultural performances.

Asian Hawkers Food Festival

As if Indian food weren’t enough to entice (引诱), the Asian Hawkers Markel brings together the best of the best from all of Southeast Asia. This giant, outdoor festival has stalls serving all varieties of Asian delicacies (佳肴), including sushi, pad thai, pho, Peking duck, tempura and everything in between. The festival takes place over three days every mid-October in New Delhi.

Diwali Street Food Festival

Diwali Street Food Festival in Noida, is one of the biggest festivals in India. It takes place among the backdrop of the fireworks, lights and candles that take over the city once u year. The festival is full of India’s best street food, plenty of traditional Diwali sweets, cold beer, live music and dancing. Visitors planning a visit to India during Diwali should take care to book nights and hotels well in advance.

Sattvik Traditional Food Festival

This winter festival (late December or early January) seeks to highlight forgotten grains and popularize traditional dishes. The organizers of this event specially focus on recipes that are made from ancient crops and reintroduce them to the urban crowd to preserve and promote Indian food that is delicious, nutritious and in danger of extinction.

1. What can you do at Asian Hawkers Food Festival?

A．Show your cooking skills.	B．Have a taste of Peking duck.
C．Participate in eating contests.	D．Enjoy beautiful fireworks.

2. Which festival should you go to if you are fond of music?

A．The Great Indian Food Festival.	B．Asian Hawkers Food Festival.
C．Diwali Street Food Festival.	D．Sattvik Traditional Food Festival.

3. What is unique about Sattvik Traditional Food Festival?

A．It is the mother of all food festivals.	B．It serves varieties of Asian delicacies.
C．It needs to be reserved ahead of time.	D．It prevents traditional dishes dying out.

【推荐1】European rabbits might not be much to look at. They have a grayish-brown coat, small ears, and short legs. But these animals are not as ordinary as they seem. European rabbits live in grass habitats. They are somewhat picky eaters. They dig and disturb (弄乱) the ground while they look for food. “Their activities can create areas of bare (无遮蔽的) soil which plants require,”   rabbit expert Diana Bell says.

Rabbits also contribute nutrients to the soil after they leave their waste there. Researchers have found that this activity benefits lowland grassland habitats, which can help maintain beneficial conditions for many plants, insects, and bird species. Without the help of rabbits, many of these species would have to leave the area or might even die out.

But due to threats such as disease, habitat loss, and hunting, the animals are classified as endangered in their native region, the Iberian Peninsula. One disease called myxomatosis is an insect-spread virus from South America that was intentionally introduced by a farmer in the mid-1950s to control the rabbit population. About 90% of European rabbits died during early outbreaks and the disease continues to affect rabbit populations on the Iberian Peninsula.

To help rabbit populations recover, Bell has suggestions in the habitat recovery project. She is encouraging people to do their part to help protect the rabbits. For instance, people can just create piles of branches and make sloping mounds of soil (土堆) in their spare time and then the rabbits can find cover. Actions like these won’t take people much energy or time, and over the past three years, researchers have found they are working. “Our work resulted in evidence of rabbit activity in significantly higher numbers,” Bell says.

Environmentalists have used other methods to help protect decreasing rabbit populations such as creating wildlife corridors, which are unbroken animal habitats that function like animal high-ways. “Efforts to reintroduce them on the Iberian Peninsula have been largely unsuccessful but we’ve managed to do this in the U.K.” Bell says.

1. What do we know about European rabbits?

A．They play a role in the grassland ecosystem.

B．Their appearance makes them unappreciated.

C．Their digging does harm to the local environment.

D．They prefer to cooperate with other species to avoid danger.

2. What can be concluded from the example mentioned in Paragraph 3?

A．Wild animals adapt themselves slowly to foreign environments.

B．It is unwise to use viruses to control rabbit populations.

C．Inappropriate human activity may bring crisis to animals.

D．People should create more bare soil for European rabbits.

3. Which of the following can best describe Bell’s suggestions on protecting rabbits?

A．Practical but costly.	B．Simple and effective.
C．Creative but unpopular.	D．Traditional and acceptable.

4. What is the structure of the text?

A．1/23/45

B．1/234/5

C．12/345

D．12/3/45

5. What does the author intend to tell us in the text?

A．Ways to create a balanced ecosystem.

B．Reasons why European rabbits like digging.

C．Measures to control the spread of European rabbits.

D．Efforts to recover the population of European rabbits.

【推荐2】The United Nations Food Systems Summit(峰会)held last September was overshadowed by a powerful counter-moblilization effort led by farmers and scientists and small-scale food producers across the world.

Opposition to the summit had been mounting since July, when hundreds of grassroots organizations challenged the organizers for framing the problem of food systems in narrow, technocratic ways and offering “false solutions” such as biotechnological interventions(干预)instead of promoting more sustainable, just and people-first ways of farming. Also in July the Philippines approved commercial cultivation of Bt eggplant, a genetically modified (GM) food that produces a protein that kills eggplant fruit and “Golden Rice” changed to produce beta-carotene, the forerunner of vitamin A. The Philippines thus became the first country in South and Southeast Asia of approve GM rice.

Advocates of GM crops praised the Philippines’ move as a victory of science. Since the U. N.’s food summit was announced two years ago, different groups have steadily reduced applications of science to global problems to a limited set of investor-oriented innovations. Within this orbit, agricultural biotechnology and digitalization are boasted as vital to achieving the U. N.’s sustainable development goals. As governments now debate the way forward from the summit, it is critical to recognize that a narrow focus on technology to address the complex structural problems of farming and food has an astonishingly poor track record.

At its base, GM crops are rooted in a colonial-capitalist model of agriculture based on theft of local land and on exploiting farmers’ and food workers’ labor, native knowledge and the web of lift itself. Today this agricultural model is responsible not only for increasing farm debt, depleted soils, and threats to native seeds and biodiversity but also the destruction of farmers’ knowledge and skills. For the world to achieve sustainability, this colonial model of agriculture must be dismissed, and promising agroecological approaches based on working with biodiversity and farmers’ knowledge and skills should be brought to center stage.

Most GM crops are engineered with resistance to herbicides(除草剂)and insects, which has not only contributed to the emergence of “super-weeds” and increasing pesticide use but has driven the global growth of seed and chemical industries. These kinds of crops have principally benefited large-scale farmers, grain traders and multinational corporations involved in selling seeds and pesticides.

Multinational agribusinesses have understood Golden Rice and Bt eggplant as pro-poor technologies to win over smallholder farmers and consumers in the Global South. The International Rice Research Institute has led Golden Rice’s development with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and in partnership with Syngenta (which owns rights to the rice) to address vitamin A deficiency (VAD) among the poor, especially children and pregnant women.

1. The recent Food Systems Summit was greeted with distrust because the organizers ________.

A．didn’t take the interests of people concerned into account

B．didn’t attach importance to the blossoming of agriculture

C．failed to come up with the effective initiatives with joint efforts

D．employed the inappropriate approaches to farming

2. What is the purpose of mentioning the Philippines’ case?

A．To prove the victory for the supporters of GM food.

B．To illustrate the Philippines’ opposition to the summit.

C．To argue it is a waste of money in the GM food.

D．To introduce how many nutrients GM food may contain.

3. ________ is advocated for the development of agriculture in the long run.

A．Exploiting farmers’ and food workers’ labor

B．Developing crops resistant to insects

C．Removing the colonial-capitalist model

D．Establishing partnership to address VAD

4. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．The Philippines is a country with cutting-edge technologies.

B．The application of GM food will solve the problem of environment.

C．Governments have initiated into the complex structural farming problems.

D．The booming pesticide industry is credited to the cultivation of GM food.