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1、Unit 2 Working the land Period 3 Learning about Language课后阅读作业ALONDON(Reuters)Organic fruit, delivered right to the doorstep. That is what Gabriel Gold prefers, and he is willing to pay for it. If this is not possible, the 26-year-old computer technician will spend the extra money at the supermarket
2、 buying organic food. “Organic product is always better, ”Gold said. “The food is free of pesticides(杀虫剂), and you are generally supporting family farms instead of large farms. And more often than not it is locally grown and seasonal, so it is tasty. ”Gold is one of the growing number of shoppers bu
3、ying into the organic trend, and supermarkets across Britain are counting on more like him as they grow their organic food business. But how many shoppers really know what they are getting, and why are they willing to pay a higher price for organic product? Market research shows that Gold and others
4、 who buy organic food can generally give clear reasons for their preferencesbut their knowledge of organic food is far from complete. For example, small amounts of pesticides can be used on organic product. And about three quarters of organic food in Britain is not local but imported to meet growing
5、 demand. “The demand for organic food is increasing by about one third every year, so it is a very fast-growing market, ”said Sue Flock, a specialist in this line of business. 【语篇概述】有机农产品不用农药, 更环保, 更健康。尽管价格稍高, 但还是很受人们的青睐。1. More and more people in Britain are buying organic food because_. A. they ar
6、e getting richerB. they can get the food anywhereC. they consider the food free of pollutionD. they like home-grown fruit【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据第二段中的“Organic product is always better. . . The food is free of pesticides. . . ”可知, 有机农产品不用农药, 没有污染。2. Which of the following statements is TRUE about most organic
7、 product sold in Britain? A. It grows indoors all year round. B. It is produced outside Britain. C. It is grown on family farms. D. It is produced on large farms. 【解析】选B。细节理解题。此题考查审题的缜密性。本题的题眼在“most”一词。根据第二段中的“And about three quarters of organic food in Britain is not local but imported to meet grow
8、ing demand. ”可知, 英国本地生产有机农产品, 但是约四分之三的有机农产品是从国外进口的。3. What is the meaning of the underlined words“the organic trend”in the second paragraph? A. Growing interest in organic food. B. Better quality of organic food. C. Rising market for organic food. D. Higher prices of organic food. 【解析】选A。词义猜测题。根据第二段
9、中的“Gold is one of the growing number of shoppers buying into the organic trend. . . ”可知, 越来越多的人购买有机农产品, 结果成了一种潮流。4. What is the best title for this news story? A. Organic foodhealthy, or just for the wealthy? B. The making of organic food in BritainC. Organic foodto import or not? D. Good qualities
10、of organic food【解析】选A。主旨大意题。综观全文可知, 有机农产品不用农药, 更环保, 更健康。在英国, 约四分之三的有机农产品是从国外进口的, 价格稍高一点, 但是购买的人还是越来越多。BFor some years the big drugmakers have been worrying about an approaching“patent cliff”a fall in sales as the patents on their most popular pills expire or are struck down by legal challenges, with
11、 few new potential blockbusters to take their place. This week the patent on the best-selling drug in history expiredLipitor, an anti-cholesterol pill which earned Pfizer nearly $11 billion in revenues last year. In all, pill like Lipitor with a combined $170 billion in annual sales will go off-pate
12、nt by the end of 2015. What is supposed to happen now is that lots of copycat firms rush in with“generic”(ie, chemically identical)versions of Lipitor at perhaps one-fifth of its price. Patients and health-care payers should reap the benefit. Pfizers revenues should suffer. The same story will be re
13、peated many times, as other best-selling drugs march over the patent cliff. But generics makers may face delays getting their cheaper versions to market. Ranbaxy, a Japanese-owned drug maker, struggled to get regulators approval for its generic version of Lipitor, and only won it on the day the pate
14、nt expired. More importantly, research-based drug firms are using a variety of tactics to make the patent cliff slope more gently. Jon Leibowitz, chairman of Americas Federal Trade Commission(FTC), is concerned by drugmakers filing additional patents on their products to put off the day when their p
15、rotection expires. Another tactic(策略)is“pay-for-delay”, in which a drugmaker facing a legal challenge to its patent pays its would-be competitor to put off introducing its cheaper copy. In the year to October the FTC identified what it believes to be 28 such settlements. American and European regula
16、tors are looking into these deals. However, legal challenges against them have been delayed, and a bill to ban them is stuck in Congress. To encourage generics makers to challenge patents on drugs, and introduce cheaper copies, an American law passed in 1984 says that the first one to do so will get a 180-day exclusivity period, in which no other generics maker can sell versions of the d
