When Joanne Morton and Lydia Shaw came across the Boston Public Market, which features only New England businesspersons, they knew they had to stop in. The women, visiting from southeastern Connecticut, always try to buy local. “We always try to support our local farmers and businessmen,” says Ms. Shaw. “We’re not into big companies,” adds Ms. Morton.
They aren’t alone. A great number of Americans continue to be attracted by “local” food and to buy it, according to recent surveys from the International Food Information Council Foundation, the Pew Research Center, and British polling firm Ipsos. But what does it mean to shop local? For some, local is still a matter of geography. For others, it is about supporting their local economy (经济). And for still others, it is about knowing where their food comes from and how it is made, even if it is coffee shipped from a Costa Rican company. In 2008, Congress passed a bill that gave money to support local food. According to the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act, a product that can be considered local has to travel less than 400 miles.
But Lydia Zepeda, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has found the largest agreement about what is local is any product that comes from within an hour’s drive. “But is that with or without traffic?” She asks. “What if it crosses state lines?” adds John Hayes, a food science professor at Pennsylvania State University. “A customer might like to buy local to help an old town,” he says. “Or maybe it’s just because local food tastes better.” It is for Kaitlin Bohon. “I taste a difference,” she says at the Boston Public Market. For Ms. Bohon, buying local is both about supporting New England business and knowing who grew and handled her food.
1. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean?| A．We never go into big companies. |
| B．We’re not interested in big companies. |
| C．Big companies don’t support local farmers. |
| D．Big companies are not good shopping places. |
| A．is becoming more and more popular |
| B．is a way to support big companies |
| C．means people will spend much less |
| D．allows people to know about their food |
| A．She is from New England. | B．She knows every cook in her town. |
| C．She likes to taste different foods. | D．She works at the Boston Public Market. |
| A．to introduce how popular buying local is |
| B．to attract more people to buying local |
| C．to explain why people like buying local |
| D．to discuss the meaning of buying local |
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1. Which item can’t be prevented by N95 mask？| A．flu viruses | B．damp air particles |
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【推荐1】This is our country, America. The country where everyone is supposed to have a shot at financial success. The country of dreams and ambition. Yet, caused by the endless pursuit of individual profit, our country is a mess. And we owe it all to capitalism.
We live in a society where people are forced to live without health coverage. A country where the poor can hardly feed themselves while the rich decide which one of their 10 homes to stay at for the night. All of these sad things arise out of capitalism.
Sadly, our country values little more than money. It motivates our decisions and even influences entire political parties. We have gotten to the point in society where a human life comes secondary to our financial security. Any rational society would value life above all else and realize that health is a basic human right. Yet in our world, money comes first.
I never once have claimed to be an economist and have no interest in debating the financial advantages of any economic system. Yet socialism surely looks better than what we have.
If we lived in a socialist society, we would be a country without such an unfair wealth distribution. We would value friendship over business and we would treat one another as humans. Most importantly, however, is that money would stop controlling our lives and we could act how humans should act.
Capitalism has created an “every man for himself” existence. Everything is a battle for limited resources and fuels. We have become so accustomed to the life value that we will do whatever we have to look out for ourselves. Yet is this really the kind of life we want?
We have become so illusioned. We are tired of the misdirection. All economic systems have their issues, but I feel like ours is turning our country into something it shouldn’t be. The good of man falls secondary to money. In our world, it is all about dollars and cents, which, unfortunately for most, makes no sense.
1. In the author’s opinion, the root cause of the present situation in his country is __________.| A．money | B．people’s value |
| C．social unfairness | D．social system |
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| C．humanism | D．great gap between the rich and the poor |
| A．concerned | B．angry |
| C．skeptical | D．hopeless |
| A．Socialism is perfect. |
| B．Health is equally important as wealth. |
| C．The pursuit for wealth should be restricted. |
| D．Life should be placed at the top of our considerations. |
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【推荐2】BEIJING Oct.16 (Friday) (Xinhua)—The Chinese government will make more support policies to lift the country’s 70 million poor people above the poverty line by 2020, President Xi Jinping announced on Friday ahead of the 23rd International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
Addressing the Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum in Beijing, Xi said China will work to fight the hard battle against poverty. In his speech, Xi drew on his personal experience in the 1960s working as a farmer in a small village in northwestern Shaanxi Province, where he was struck by the poor living conditions in rural China. But over the past several decades, China has made remarkable progress in poverty relief.
China has lifted more than 600 million people out of poverty in the past 30 years, accounting for about 70 percent of those brought out of poverty worldwide. It was the first developing country to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of reducing the population living in poverty by half ahead of the 2015 deadline. “Despite the achievements, China remains the world’s biggest developing country, and narrowing the urban-rural gap remains a big challenge for us,” Xi said.
As of the end of 2014, China still had 70.17 million people in the countryside living below the country’s poverty line of 2,300 yuan (376 U. S. dollars) in annual income by 2010 price standards. The president said poverty alleviation will be a major part of China’s post-2015 agenda. While struggling to reduce poverty at home, China has also actively supported the cause in other developing countries. Over the past 60 years, China has provided 166 countries and international organizations with nearly 400 billion yuan in assistance.
China has also announced seven times it would exempt, without any conditions, the matured inter-governmental interest free loans owned by heavily-indebted poor countries and least developed countries. At a United Nations summit last month the goal of eliminating poverty in 15 years was laid out and China pledged an initial 2 billion U.S. dollars to establish an assistance fund to help developing nations fight poverty.
In a video message for Friday’s Forum, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised China’s remarkable achievements in poverty alleviation, saying the UN welcomes those significant and generous proposals from President Xi and looks forward to further progress with an indispensable partnership with China.
Saturday also marks China’s second National Poverty Relief Day.
1. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?| A．President Xi once worked as a farmer in a small village. |
| B．China has made great contributions to poverty relief in the past decades. |
| C．China has announced to exempt loans owned by heavily-indebted poor countries and developed countries. |
| D．The UN thinks highly of China’s extraordinary achievements in poverty relief. |
| A．relief | B．line | C．reform | D．rise |
| A．Oct.16 | B．Oct.15 | C．Oct. 17 | D．Oct.14 |
| A．a magazine | B．a newspaper | C．a research paper | D．a brochure |
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| A．As Children’s Day and Youth Day are approaching |
| B．As a part of the project “We Always Together in Weal and Woe(祸福)” |
| C．More videos will be produced by Chinese young people |
| D．As the COVID 19 epidemic continues to spread globally |
| E．These paintings have a long history and high value |
| F．The project “We Always Together in Weal and Woe” is hosted |
| G．These letters are displayed in the form of sand paintings |
