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第 29 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.
29.
- A lay out
- B make off
- C do without
- D cut back
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格前後的資訊：前文提到政府建議「攝取量減半」，後文則提到「價格上漲了 70%」。在這種情況下，如果你是消費者，你對該項產品的『購買數量』會做出什麼樣的方向性調整？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精確捕捉到上下文的邏輯關聯，選出 (D) cut back 說明你對這段論述的理解非常透徹。這段話主要在討論中國面臨的健康與環境挑戰，並提到政府建議將肉類攝取量減半，以應對肥胖與慢性病問題。後半段進一步說明，由於非洲豬瘟導致豬肉價格大幅飆升（costlier），在健康訴求與經濟壓力的雙重驅動下，市場信號自然會促使消費者「減少」消費量。
經濟誘因與消費行為的關聯
這題的考點在於辨析動詞片語的語意細微差別。(D) cut back 的意思是「削減、縮減」，完美呼應了前文提到的「eat less meat」以及後文價格上漲帶來的必然結果。相較於 (C) do without（完全不用/不吃），cut back 更符合文章中「減量」而非「禁絕」的語境。這題的鑑別度在於考驗學生是否能將「價格上漲」與「消費行為調整」進行邏輯串聯，而不只是單純地翻譯單字，展現了你優異的閱讀整合能力。