15．An environmental group called the Food Commission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sales of bottled water from Japan．The water，it angrily argues in public，has traveled 10，000"food miles"before it reached Western customers．Transporting water halfway across the world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty of water in the UK．It is also worrying that we were wasting our fuel by buying prawns from Indonesia （7，000food miles ） and carrots from South Africa （5，900food 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 due to industry．Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energy efficient．It should be noticed that a ton of butter transported 25miles in a truck to a farmers'market doesn't necessarily use less fuel on its journey than a similar product transported hundreds of miles by sea．Besides，the idea of"food 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 ones will have been raised in heated greenhouse and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun．
What is the idea of"food miles"does provide，however，is the chance to cut out Third World countries from First World food markets．The number of miles traveled by our food should，as I see it，be regarded as a sign of the success of the global trade system，not a sign of damage to the environment．
9．The Food Commission is angry because it thinks thatD．
A．UK wastes a lot of money importing food products
B．some imported goods causes environmental damage
C．growing certain vegetables causes environmental damage
D．people wasted energy buying food from other countries
10．The phrase"food miles"in the passage refers to the distanceA．
A．that a food product travels to a market
B．that a food product travels from one market to another
C．between UK and other food producing countries
D．between a Third World country and a First World food market
11．By comparing tomatoes raised in Britain and in Ghana，the author tries to explain thatC．
A．British tomatoes are healthier than Ghanaian ones
B．Ghanaian tomatoes taste better than tomatoes ones
C．cutting down food miles may not necessarily save fuel
D．protecting the environment may cost a lot of money
12．From the passage we know that the author is most probablyA．
A．a(chǎn) supporter of free global trade
B．a(chǎn) member of a Food Commission
C．a(chǎn) supporter of First World food markets
D．a(chǎn) member of an energy development group．
分析 本文是一篇健康環(huán)保類閱讀，屬于說明文，主要講述了一個名為食品委員會的環(huán)保團(tuán)體因為日本瓶裝水的銷售而感到失望．水到達(dá)西方客戶前已經(jīng)走過了一萬英里的"食物里程"，食物委員會認(rèn)為運(yùn)送事物是能源的一種浪費(fèi)．
解答 9．D．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章第一段Transporting water halfway across the world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty of water in the UK．It is also worrying that we were wasting our fuel by buying prawns from Indonesia （7，000food miles ） and carrots from South Africa （5，900food miles）．可知，食物委員會認(rèn)為運(yùn)送事物是能源的一種浪費(fèi)．故選D．
10．A．推理判斷題．我們知道日本、英國均屬于"First World"，進(jìn)口的食品也不是僅僅是英國，可排除C、D選項．B項沒有道理，根據(jù)理解A才符合"food miles"的含義，即從產(chǎn)地到市場所走的距離．故選A．
11．C．推理判斷題．依據(jù)第二段可以得知作者將英國種植的西紅柿與加納種植西紅柿進(jìn)行比較，是表明即使在英國種植食品，也需要能源，不一定能節(jié)約燃料．故選C．
12．A．主旨大意題．文章最后一段作者很清楚的表達(dá)了自己的觀點．"The mummer of miles traveled by our food should，as I see it be regarded as a sign of the success of the global trade system，not a sign of …"即知作者的態(tài)度，作者是最有可能是免費(fèi)全球貿(mào)易的支持者．故選A．
點評 本文是一篇健康環(huán)保類閱讀，題目涉及多道主旨大意題，細(xì)節(jié)理解題，推理判斷題．做題時學(xué)生應(yīng)仔細(xì)閱讀原文，把握文章主要內(nèi)容，聯(lián)系文章上下文內(nèi)容并結(jié)合所給選項含義，從中選出正確答案，一定要做到有理有據(jù)，切忌胡亂猜測．
