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第 26 題
📖 題組：
【B】 The planet needs China to curb its appetite for meat. In the first three decades of the “reform and opening” era the number of farmed animals in the country tripled. Raising them polluted water supplies and 26 scarce arable land. Around the globe, China’s growing hunger for red meat, specifically, has seen 27 beef imports grow 40-fold between 2010 and 2018. The boom threatens Latin American forests and Arctic ice caps alike, as cattle-rearing prompts land-clearing and emits greenhouse gases. To be fair, China’s 1.4 billion people are being asked to show a self-restraint unknown in the gluttonous West. Even now, in China where children yawn at dishes which their grandparents once saw only at weddings and high holidays, meat consumption per person is only half of America’s. But China’s government, too, wants its people to eat less meat. Obesity, type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure are 28 . To curb such afflictions, guidelines issued in 2016 urge adults to eat just 40-75 grams of meat a day, or about half the current national average. Market signals are also pushing shoppers to 29 . China’s most popular meat, pork, is nearly 70% costlier than a year ago because herds are being wiped out by African swine fever, a disease harmless to people but 30 to pigs.
【B】 The planet needs China to curb its appetite for meat. In the first three decades of the “reform and opening” era the number of farmed animals in the country tripled. Raising them polluted water supplies and 26 scarce arable land. Around the globe, China’s growing hunger for red meat, specifically, has seen 27 beef imports grow 40-fold between 2010 and 2018. The boom threatens Latin American forests and Arctic ice caps alike, as cattle-rearing prompts land-clearing and emits greenhouse gases. To be fair, China’s 1.4 billion people are being asked to show a self-restraint unknown in the gluttonous West. Even now, in China where children yawn at dishes which their grandparents once saw only at weddings and high holidays, meat consumption per person is only half of America’s. But China’s government, too, wants its people to eat less meat. Obesity, type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure are 28 . To curb such afflictions, guidelines issued in 2016 urge adults to eat just 40-75 grams of meat a day, or about half the current national average. Market signals are also pushing shoppers to 29 . China’s most popular meat, pork, is nearly 70% costlier than a year ago because herds are being wiped out by African swine fever, a disease harmless to people but 30 to pigs.
26.
- A make up for
- B gobbled up
- C do away with
- D make do with
思路引導 VIP
試著思考一下：當文章提到一個國家的耕地非常「稀少（scarce）」，而飼養牲畜的數量卻在短時間內「翻了三倍」時，這群龐大的牲畜對於那些有限的土地，會產生什麼樣的「消耗」行為？如果要把這種「大量且迅速使用資源」的動作擬人化或比喻化，你會聯想到什麼樣的動作呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
非常好！你精準捕捉到了文脈中的動態關係。這題的正確答案為 (B) gobbled up。
語境連結與動詞片語的應用
在這個段落中，作者正在探討中國肉類需求增加對環境帶來的負面影響。飼養大量牲畜不僅會污染水源，更會「吞噬」或「迅速耗盡」本就稀缺的 scarce arable land（稀少的耕地）。Gobble up 原意是大口吞食、狼吞虎嚥，在這裡轉化為生動的比喻，形容資源被大量且迅速地消耗，這不僅呼應了文章首句提到的 appetite（胃口），也強化了資源流失的迫切感。
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