《视听说3》短文理解、听写PartⅡ Section Two Item3
Unit1 item 3
Businesses are structured in different ways to meet different needs.
The simplest form of business is called an individual proprietorship. The proprietor owns all Another kind of business is the partnership. Two or more people go into business together. An doing business. A husband and wife can form a business partnership.
Partnerships can end at any time. But the partnerships and individual proprietorships exist Unit 2 item 3
had value The lack of information often cost huge amounts of money and sometimes many lives.
a horse could run, or a person could walk.
People experimented with other ways to send messages. Some people tried using birds to The telegraph was the first instrument used to send information using wires and electricity. the alphabet and each number had to be sent separately by a device called a telegraph key. The
Unit 3 item 3
People study their family history for For some, genealogy is important to their religion. This is especially true for Mormons.
Genealogy is also important for membership in some or cultural organizations. These include the General Society of Mayflower Descendants and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Candidates for membership may be asked for came to America.
family member. Or they may just want to learn more about the strange-looking people in old family pictures.
Write down your own history. Then if possible work back to your parents and grandparents. One idea is to ask your parents what they can remember about their parents or
grandparents. Find out all you can about your work did they do?
You can often find a lot of information in family pictures, letters and other Some of these things may be hidden inside old books.
Resources on local history may also information. Large libraries may have hundreds of helpful books.
results.
Unit 5 item 3
There are records of a transplant operation that in 1823. A German doctor, Carl from other people.
to be a problem for transplants well into the 20th century. In 1958, the In 1972, the Swiss scientist Jean Borel discovered that the drug cyclosporine could stop the Unit1作文 1.What do you think of computer?
Computer is very useful for us.The Internet is a great facility for collecting information.The Internet makes it easy to build social connections.we can have a lot of friends all over the world and reach much knowledge by Internet.Millions of people communicate today through E-mail.
But the disadvantages of computer also have a lot.The network information may be falsehood,so mach as leading to a wrong decision-making.May online socialization weaken our ability to deal with relationships in the real world?The weak-willed persons maybe indulge network-game and amusement in Internet thereby disrepair own career.
The loveliness of Internet is infinitude and colorful,but strengthen to manage it.We make good use of it only while we have an appropriate approach to Internet .
2015年6月13日全国大学英语四级翻译真题及答案
在西方人心目中，和中国联系最为密切的基本食物是大米。长期以来，大米在中国人的饮食中占据很重要的地位，以至于有谚语说“巧妇难为无米之炊”。中国南方大多数种植水稻，人们通常以大米为食；而华北大部分地区因为过于寒冷或过于干燥，无法种植水稻，那里的主要作物是小麦。在中国，有些人用面粉做面包，但大多数人用面粉做馒头和面条。 In the mind of Westerners, Chinese people have the closest connection to rice, basic food for the Chinese. For a long time, rice occupies a very important position in the Chinese diet. There is even a saying that "even a clever housewife cannot cook a meal without rice". People in south China plant and live on rice, while people in the most parts of North China cannot plant rice due to excessively dry and cold weather. The main crop there is wheat. In China, some people use flour to bake bread, while most people make steamed bread and noodles with flour.
中国是世界上最古老的文明之一。构成现代世界基础的许多元素起源于中国。中国现在拥有世界上发展最快的经济，并正经历着一次新的工业革命。中国还启动了雄心勃勃的太空探索计划，其中包括到2020年建成的一个太空站。目前，中国是世界最大的出口国之一，并正在吸引大量外国投资。同时，它也在海外投资数十亿美元。2011年，中国超越日本成为世界第二大经济体。
China is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. Many elements that make up the foundation of the modern world originated in China. China now is the world's fastest growing economy, and is experiencing a new industrial revolution. China has also launched an ambitious space exploration program which includes a space station in 2020. At present, China is the world's largest exporter, and is attracting a lot of foreign investment. At the same time, it is also investing billions of dollars abroad. In 2011, China overtook Japan to become the world's second largest economy. 快递
据报道，今年中国快递服务（courier service）将递送大约120亿件包裹。这将使中国有可能超越美国成为世界上最大的快递市场。大多数包裹里装着网上订购的物品。中国给数百万在线零售商以极具竞争力的价格销售商品的机会。仅在11月11日，中国消费者就从国内最大的购物平台购买了价值90亿美元的商品。中国有不少这样的特殊购物日。因此，快递业在中国扩展就不足为奇了。
It is reported that China's express courier service will deliver about 12 billion Packages this year. China could overtake the United States as
the world's largest express market. Most package are for items ordered online. China provides opportunities to millions of online retailers to sell goods at very competitive prices. Only on November 11th, Chinese consumers bought $ 9 billion worth of goods from the nation's largest shopping platform. There are many such special shopping days in China. Therefore, the expansion of express industry is not surprising at all.
《视听说3》长对话PartⅡ Section Two Item 2
Unit 1 Item 2
Sam: I’m going to work in a multi-national enterprise after graduation.
Jane: But you said your dream was to be an entrepreneur, to be your own boss.
Sam: I’ll do it someday. But it’s not the right time now. I have to learn a lot by working as an employee.
Jane: It sounds like you’ve got a perfect plan.
Sam: You could say so. I’ll work hard in that company and try to understand as much as possible about how to run an enterprise.
Jane: It can save you lots of time and effort to simply copy a successful business model.
Sam: Yeah. The success stories of that company might be useful for me. And their customers may become the potential ones for my own company.
Jane: That’s right. You should establish good relationships with them. What else are you planning to do while working for that company?
Sam: Well, I’ll come up with a detailed business plan to attract the investors.
Jane: Sounds perfect. I think with all that you have in mind, you’ll become a successful businessman. By then, perhaps, I’ll join in as a partner of your company.
Unit 2 Item 2
W: So, John, I’ve been asking you about hunting for treasure. Can I ask you a few more questions?
M: Sure.
W: So why are there so many sunken ships in South Africa?
M: Well, I guess around the southern tip of Africa because of the really bad weather. It changes really quickly in those parts and with the ancient ships I guess they weren’t really prepared for that kind of weather. It’s unexpected, so I think that’s probably the reason.
W: Right, and if it’s so dangerous, how do people find these sunken ships nowadays?
M: I think, obviously with technological advances it’s easier to track where these sunken ships might be. I think they can use satellite navigation and things like that but obviously also finding out more about history and, you know, going through historical records and finding out the old shipping routes and possibly where ships got lost and finding it that way, I think, is now more easier than it used to be.
W: So it sounds like an interesting combination of technology, science, history...
M: I would guess so.
W: Adventure.
M: Adventure, yeah.
Unit 3 Item 2
M: Prof. Smith, we know that the institution of marriage has come under attack in recent decades. Do you think marriage is going to disappear anytime soon?
W: I don’t think so. What do you think are the obligations or responsibilities between partners in marriages?
M: To take care of your marriage partner?
W: Good. Anything else?
M: To take care of the children?
W: Absolutely. It’s the most important one, that is, to provide care for the children and provide them with an acceptable position in society. As long as this obligation exists, marriage will not disappear.
M: Well, I see. Could you talk about how marriage partners are selected? It seems that different cultures have different decisions.
W: Yes. Generally speaking, it falls into two types: marriage partners are selected by family or selected by the couple who is getting married. The first case is called an arranged marriage, in which the family restricts or controls the choice of marriage partners.
M: Do we still have arranged marriages in modern times?
W: Yes, they’re still common in the Middle East, Africa, and some countries in Asia. Arranged marriages are found in cultures in which the extended family is common.
M: Then how about the second case?
W: The idea that men and women could marry freely is not a traditional idea, but relatively modern. It is called “love marriage”. The fact is, love has not been the point of marriage in much of human history. Having children and cementing ties between families, tribes, and other groups have been considered far more important.
Unit5
Passage One
Across the rich world, well-educated people increasingly work longer than the less-skilled. Some 65% of American men aged 62-74 with a professional degree are in the workforce, compared with 32% of men with only a high-school certificate. This gap is part of a deepening divide between the well-education well off and the unskilled poor. Rapid technological advance has raised the incomes of the highly skilled while squeezing those of the unskilled. The consequences, for individual and society, are profound.
The world is facing as astonishing rise in the number of old people, and they will live longer than ever before. Over the next 20 years the global population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600 million to 1.1 billion. The experience of the 20th century, when greater longevity (长寿)translated into more years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many observers that this shift will lead to slower economic growth, while the swelling ranks of pensioners will create government budget problems.
But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled. Employment rates are falling among younger unskilled people, whereas older skilled folk are working longer. The divide is most extreme in America, where well-educated baby-boomers (二战后生育高峰期出生的美国人) are putting off retirement while many less-skilled younger people have dropped out of the workforce.
That even the better-off must work longer to have a comfortable retirement. But the changing nature of work also plays a big role. Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to reap rich rewards into old age because
these days the educated elderly are more productive than the preceding generation. Technological change may well reinforce that shift: the skills that complement computers, from management knowhow to creativity. Do not necessarily decline with age.
56、what is happening in the workforce in rich countries?
A. younger people are replacing the elderly B. well-educated people tend to work longer
C. unemployment rates are rising year after year D. people with no college degree do not easily find work
57、what has helped deepen the divide between the well-off and poor?
A. Longer life expectancies B. Profound changes in the workforce
C. rapid technological advance. D. A growing number of well-graduated.
58、what do many observers predict in view of the experience of the 20th century?
A. Economic growth will slow down. B. Government budgets will increase.
C. More people will try to pursue higher education D. There will be more competition in the job market.
59、What is the result of policy changes in European countries?
A. Unskilled workers may choose to retire early. B. more people have to receive in-service training.
C. Even wealthy people must work longer to live comfortably in retirement.
D. People may be able to enjoy generous defined-benefits from pension plans.
60、What is characteristic of work in the 21st century?
A. Computers will do more complicated work. B. More will be taken by the educated young.
C. Most jobs to be done will be creative ones. D. Skills are highly valued regardless of age.
Passage Two
Some of the world’s most significant problems never hit headlines.One example comes from agriculture. Food riots and hunger make news. But the trend lying behind these matters is rarely talked about. This is the decline in the growth in yields of some of the world’s major crops.A new study by the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal looks at where, and how far, this decline is occurring.
The authors take a vast number of data points for the four most important crops: rice, wheat corn and soybeans(大豆). They find that on between 24% and 39% of all harvested areas, the improvement in yields that tood place before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 2000s.
There are two worrying features of the slowdown. One is that it has been particularly sharp in the world’s most
populous(人口多的) countries, India and China. Their ability to feed themselves has been an important source of relative stability both within the countries and on world food markets. That self-sufficiency cannot be taken for granted if yields continue to slow down or reverse.
Second, yield growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in corn and soyabeans. This is problematic because wheat and rice are more important as foods, accounting for around half of all calories consumed. Corn and soyabeans are more important as feed grains. The authors note that “we have preferentially focused our crop improvement efforts on feeding animals and cars rather than on crops that feed people and are the basis of food security in much of the world.”
The report qualifies the more optimistic findings of another new paper which suggests that the world will not have to dig up a lot more land for farming in order to feed 9 billion people in 2050, as the Food and Agriculture Organisation has argued. Instead, it says, thanks to slowing population growth, land currently ploughted up for crops might be able to revert(回返)to forest or wilderness. This could happen. The trouble is that the forecast assumes continued improvements in yields, which may not actually happen.
61.What does the author try to draw attention to?
A)Food riots and hunger in the world. C)The decline of the grain yield growth.
B)News headlines in the leading media. D)The food supply in populous countries.
62.Why does the author mention India and China in particular?
A)Their self-sufficiency is vital to the stability of world food markets.
B)Their food yields have begun to decrease sharply in recent years.
C)Their big populations are causing worldwide concerns.
D)Their food self-sufficiency has been taken for granted.
63.What does the new study by the two universities say about recent crop improvement efforts?
A)They fail to produce the same remarkable results as before the 1980s.
B)They contribute a lot to the improvement of human food production.
C)They play a major role in guaranteeing the food security of the world.
D)They focus more on the increase of animal feed than human food grains.
64.What does the Food and Agriculture Organisation say about world food production in the coming decades?
A)The growing population will greatly increase the pressure on world food supplies.
B)The optimistic prediction about food production should be viewed with caution.
C)The slowdown of the growth in yields of major food crops will be reversed.
D)The world will be able to feed its population without increasing farmland.
65.How does the author view the argument of the Food and Agriculture Organisation?
A)It is built on the findings of a new study. B)It is based on a doubtful assumption.
C)It is backed by strong evidence. D)It is open to further discussion
56 B) 57 B) 58 A) 59 C) 60 D) 61 C) 62 A) 63 D) 64 D) 65 B)
.
《视听说3》短文理解、听写PartⅡ Section Two Item3
Unit1 item 3
Businesses are structured in different ways to meet different needs.
The simplest form of business is called an individual proprietorship. The proprietor owns all Another kind of business is the partnership. Two or more people go into business together. An doing business. A husband and wife can form a business partnership.
Partnerships can end at any time. But the partnerships and individual proprietorships exist Unit 2 item 3
had value The lack of information often cost huge amounts of money and sometimes many lives.
a horse could run, or a person could walk.
People experimented with other ways to send messages. Some people tried using birds to The telegraph was the first instrument used to send information using wires and electricity. the alphabet and each number had to be sent separately by a device called a telegraph key. The
Unit 3 item 3
People study their family history for For some, genealogy is important to their religion. This is especially true for Mormons.
Genealogy is also important for membership in some or cultural organizations. These include the General Society of Mayflower Descendants and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Candidates for membership may be asked for came to America.
family member. Or they may just want to learn more about the strange-looking people in old family pictures.
Write down your own history. Then if possible work back to your parents and grandparents. One idea is to ask your parents what they can remember about their parents or
grandparents. Find out all you can about your work did they do?
You can often find a lot of information in family pictures, letters and other Some of these things may be hidden inside old books.
Resources on local history may also information. Large libraries may have hundreds of helpful books.
results.
Unit 5 item 3
There are records of a transplant operation that in 1823. A German doctor, Carl from other people.
to be a problem for transplants well into the 20th century. In 1958, the In 1972, the Swiss scientist Jean Borel discovered that the drug cyclosporine could stop the Unit1作文 1.What do you think of computer?
Computer is very useful for us.The Internet is a great facility for collecting information.The Internet makes it easy to build social connections.we can have a lot of friends all over the world and reach much knowledge by Internet.Millions of people communicate today through E-mail.
But the disadvantages of computer also have a lot.The network information may be falsehood,so mach as leading to a wrong decision-making.May online socialization weaken our ability to deal with relationships in the real world?The weak-willed persons maybe indulge network-game and amusement in Internet thereby disrepair own career.
The loveliness of Internet is infinitude and colorful,but strengthen to manage it.We make good use of it only while we have an appropriate approach to Internet .
2015年6月13日全国大学英语四级翻译真题及答案
在西方人心目中，和中国联系最为密切的基本食物是大米。长期以来，大米在中国人的饮食中占据很重要的地位，以至于有谚语说“巧妇难为无米之炊”。中国南方大多数种植水稻，人们通常以大米为食；而华北大部分地区因为过于寒冷或过于干燥，无法种植水稻，那里的主要作物是小麦。在中国，有些人用面粉做面包，但大多数人用面粉做馒头和面条。 In the mind of Westerners, Chinese people have the closest connection to rice, basic food for the Chinese. For a long time, rice occupies a very important position in the Chinese diet. There is even a saying that "even a clever housewife cannot cook a meal without rice". People in south China plant and live on rice, while people in the most parts of North China cannot plant rice due to excessively dry and cold weather. The main crop there is wheat. In China, some people use flour to bake bread, while most people make steamed bread and noodles with flour.
中国是世界上最古老的文明之一。构成现代世界基础的许多元素起源于中国。中国现在拥有世界上发展最快的经济，并正经历着一次新的工业革命。中国还启动了雄心勃勃的太空探索计划，其中包括到2020年建成的一个太空站。目前，中国是世界最大的出口国之一，并正在吸引大量外国投资。同时，它也在海外投资数十亿美元。2011年，中国超越日本成为世界第二大经济体。
China is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. Many elements that make up the foundation of the modern world originated in China. China now is the world's fastest growing economy, and is experiencing a new industrial revolution. China has also launched an ambitious space exploration program which includes a space station in 2020. At present, China is the world's largest exporter, and is attracting a lot of foreign investment. At the same time, it is also investing billions of dollars abroad. In 2011, China overtook Japan to become the world's second largest economy. 快递
据报道，今年中国快递服务（courier service）将递送大约120亿件包裹。这将使中国有可能超越美国成为世界上最大的快递市场。大多数包裹里装着网上订购的物品。中国给数百万在线零售商以极具竞争力的价格销售商品的机会。仅在11月11日，中国消费者就从国内最大的购物平台购买了价值90亿美元的商品。中国有不少这样的特殊购物日。因此，快递业在中国扩展就不足为奇了。
It is reported that China's express courier service will deliver about 12 billion Packages this year. China could overtake the United States as
the world's largest express market. Most package are for items ordered online. China provides opportunities to millions of online retailers to sell goods at very competitive prices. Only on November 11th, Chinese consumers bought $ 9 billion worth of goods from the nation's largest shopping platform. There are many such special shopping days in China. Therefore, the expansion of express industry is not surprising at all.
《视听说3》长对话PartⅡ Section Two Item 2
Unit 1 Item 2
Sam: I’m going to work in a multi-national enterprise after graduation.
Jane: But you said your dream was to be an entrepreneur, to be your own boss.
Sam: I’ll do it someday. But it’s not the right time now. I have to learn a lot by working as an employee.
Jane: It sounds like you’ve got a perfect plan.
Sam: You could say so. I’ll work hard in that company and try to understand as much as possible about how to run an enterprise.
Jane: It can save you lots of time and effort to simply copy a successful business model.
Sam: Yeah. The success stories of that company might be useful for me. And their customers may become the potential ones for my own company.
Jane: That’s right. You should establish good relationships with them. What else are you planning to do while working for that company?
Sam: Well, I’ll come up with a detailed business plan to attract the investors.
Jane: Sounds perfect. I think with all that you have in mind, you’ll become a successful businessman. By then, perhaps, I’ll join in as a partner of your company.
Unit 2 Item 2
W: So, John, I’ve been asking you about hunting for treasure. Can I ask you a few more questions?
M: Sure.
W: So why are there so many sunken ships in South Africa?
M: Well, I guess around the southern tip of Africa because of the really bad weather. It changes really quickly in those parts and with the ancient ships I guess they weren’t really prepared for that kind of weather. It’s unexpected, so I think that’s probably the reason.
W: Right, and if it’s so dangerous, how do people find these sunken ships nowadays?
M: I think, obviously with technological advances it’s easier to track where these sunken ships might be. I think they can use satellite navigation and things like that but obviously also finding out more about history and, you know, going through historical records and finding out the old shipping routes and possibly where ships got lost and finding it that way, I think, is now more easier than it used to be.
W: So it sounds like an interesting combination of technology, science, history...
M: I would guess so.
W: Adventure.
M: Adventure, yeah.
Unit 3 Item 2
M: Prof. Smith, we know that the institution of marriage has come under attack in recent decades. Do you think marriage is going to disappear anytime soon?
W: I don’t think so. What do you think are the obligations or responsibilities between partners in marriages?
M: To take care of your marriage partner?
W: Good. Anything else?
M: To take care of the children?
W: Absolutely. It’s the most important one, that is, to provide care for the children and provide them with an acceptable position in society. As long as this obligation exists, marriage will not disappear.
M: Well, I see. Could you talk about how marriage partners are selected? It seems that different cultures have different decisions.
W: Yes. Generally speaking, it falls into two types: marriage partners are selected by family or selected by the couple who is getting married. The first case is called an arranged marriage, in which the family restricts or controls the choice of marriage partners.
M: Do we still have arranged marriages in modern times?
W: Yes, they’re still common in the Middle East, Africa, and some countries in Asia. Arranged marriages are found in cultures in which the extended family is common.
M: Then how about the second case?
W: The idea that men and women could marry freely is not a traditional idea, but relatively modern. It is called “love marriage”. The fact is, love has not been the point of marriage in much of human history. Having children and cementing ties between families, tribes, and other groups have been considered far more important.
Unit5
Passage One
Across the rich world, well-educated people increasingly work longer than the less-skilled. Some 65% of American men aged 62-74 with a professional degree are in the workforce, compared with 32% of men with only a high-school certificate. This gap is part of a deepening divide between the well-education well off and the unskilled poor. Rapid technological advance has raised the incomes of the highly skilled while squeezing those of the unskilled. The consequences, for individual and society, are profound.
The world is facing as astonishing rise in the number of old people, and they will live longer than ever before. Over the next 20 years the global population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600 million to 1.1 billion. The experience of the 20th century, when greater longevity (长寿)translated into more years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many observers that this shift will lead to slower economic growth, while the swelling ranks of pensioners will create government budget problems.
But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled. Employment rates are falling among younger unskilled people, whereas older skilled folk are working longer. The divide is most extreme in America, where well-educated baby-boomers (二战后生育高峰期出生的美国人) are putting off retirement while many less-skilled younger people have dropped out of the workforce.
That even the better-off must work longer to have a comfortable retirement. But the changing nature of work also plays a big role. Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to reap rich rewards into old age because
these days the educated elderly are more productive than the preceding generation. Technological change may well reinforce that shift: the skills that complement computers, from management knowhow to creativity. Do not necessarily decline with age.
56、what is happening in the workforce in rich countries?
A. younger people are replacing the elderly B. well-educated people tend to work longer
C. unemployment rates are rising year after year D. people with no college degree do not easily find work
57、what has helped deepen the divide between the well-off and poor?
A. Longer life expectancies B. Profound changes in the workforce
C. rapid technological advance. D. A growing number of well-graduated.
58、what do many observers predict in view of the experience of the 20th century?
A. Economic growth will slow down. B. Government budgets will increase.
C. More people will try to pursue higher education D. There will be more competition in the job market.
59、What is the result of policy changes in European countries?
A. Unskilled workers may choose to retire early. B. more people have to receive in-service training.
C. Even wealthy people must work longer to live comfortably in retirement.
D. People may be able to enjoy generous defined-benefits from pension plans.
60、What is characteristic of work in the 21st century?
A. Computers will do more complicated work. B. More will be taken by the educated young.
C. Most jobs to be done will be creative ones. D. Skills are highly valued regardless of age.
Passage Two
Some of the world’s most significant problems never hit headlines.One example comes from agriculture. Food riots and hunger make news. But the trend lying behind these matters is rarely talked about. This is the decline in the growth in yields of some of the world’s major crops.A new study by the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal looks at where, and how far, this decline is occurring.
The authors take a vast number of data points for the four most important crops: rice, wheat corn and soybeans(大豆). They find that on between 24% and 39% of all harvested areas, the improvement in yields that tood place before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 2000s.
There are two worrying features of the slowdown. One is that it has been particularly sharp in the world’s most
populous(人口多的) countries, India and China. Their ability to feed themselves has been an important source of relative stability both within the countries and on world food markets. That self-sufficiency cannot be taken for granted if yields continue to slow down or reverse.
Second, yield growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in corn and soyabeans. This is problematic because wheat and rice are more important as foods, accounting for around half of all calories consumed. Corn and soyabeans are more important as feed grains. The authors note that “we have preferentially focused our crop improvement efforts on feeding animals and cars rather than on crops that feed people and are the basis of food security in much of the world.”
The report qualifies the more optimistic findings of another new paper which suggests that the world will not have to dig up a lot more land for farming in order to feed 9 billion people in 2050, as the Food and Agriculture Organisation has argued. Instead, it says, thanks to slowing population growth, land currently ploughted up for crops might be able to revert(回返)to forest or wilderness. This could happen. The trouble is that the forecast assumes continued improvements in yields, which may not actually happen.
61.What does the author try to draw attention to?
A)Food riots and hunger in the world. C)The decline of the grain yield growth.
B)News headlines in the leading media. D)The food supply in populous countries.
62.Why does the author mention India and China in particular?
A)Their self-sufficiency is vital to the stability of world food markets.
B)Their food yields have begun to decrease sharply in recent years.
C)Their big populations are causing worldwide concerns.
D)Their food self-sufficiency has been taken for granted.
63.What does the new study by the two universities say about recent crop improvement efforts?
A)They fail to produce the same remarkable results as before the 1980s.
B)They contribute a lot to the improvement of human food production.
C)They play a major role in guaranteeing the food security of the world.
D)They focus more on the increase of animal feed than human food grains.
64.What does the Food and Agriculture Organisation say about world food production in the coming decades?
A)The growing population will greatly increase the pressure on world food supplies.
B)The optimistic prediction about food production should be viewed with caution.
C)The slowdown of the growth in yields of major food crops will be reversed.
D)The world will be able to feed its population without increasing farmland.
65.How does the author view the argument of the Food and Agriculture Organisation?
A)It is built on the findings of a new study. B)It is based on a doubtful assumption.
C)It is backed by strong evidence. D)It is open to further discussion
56 B) 57 B) 58 A) 59 C) 60 D) 61 C) 62 A) 63 D) 64 D) 65 B)
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