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第 28 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.
28.
- A taking a growing toll
- B getting a driving force
- C booming the bust
- D leading the pack
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格前方提到的『肥胖、糖尿病、高血壓』，以及下一句緊接著提到的『這些折磨 (afflictions)』。如果你要描述這些健康問題對國民健康所產生的『負面代價』或『長期造成的損害』，你會偏向尋找哪一種性質的動詞片語來連結這些病症與社會現狀呢？
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核心片語與語意連貫
在文中提到的肥胖、糖尿病和高血壓等健康問題，緊接著被後文稱為「afflictions（痛苦、折磨）」，且政府必須「curb（抑制）」它們，這暗示了這些疾病正對社會產生嚴重的負面影響。選項 (A) taking a growing toll 意指「造成的損失、傷亡或負面代價日益增加」。這裡的 toll 常用來描述疾病、戰爭或災難所帶來的代價，結合 growing（成長中的）一詞，完美呼應了前文中國肉類消費飆升所帶來的後遺症。
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