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浙江省浙南名校联盟2019-2020学年高二下学期英语期末联考试卷(含听力音频)
For much of the 20th century, milk was a simple part of daily life in the U.S, as farmers raised cows, milkmen delivered bottles and children drank it at school. But those days are fading.
America has fallen out of love with drinking milk, as lower-calorie options have increased and people are replacing water bottles with milk cartons. Americans each drink an estimated 146 lb. of fluid milk in 2018, according to the USDA's Economic Research Service. That may sound like a lot, but it's down by 26% just since 2000.
The downturn has been tough on dairy processors like Borden and Dean, which buy fresh milk from farms and use techniques like pasteurization (巴氏杀菌) to create a consumer-safe drink with a longer shelf life. For the past five years, thanks to technology that increased milk production, fresh-milk prices were relatively low, which meant processors could still earn some money even despite the decreasing demand. But prices began going up again last year, squeezing the processors' already tight profits. "Declining sales in a thin-profit business is not a good recipe for success," says Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin.
Milk processors are also facing competition from big retailers, which have set up their own processing plants. In 2018, Walmart opened a milk-processing plant in Indiana to serve hundreds of stores in the Midwest, taking away approximately 95 million gal of milk-processing business from Dean Foods.
On the other end of the supply chain, dairy farms are facing trouble of their own. The low prices left small farmers struggling across the industry. The number of farm bankruptcies (破产) in 2019 was up by 4% from the previous year. "We're trying our best to hang on," says Mary Rieckmann, a dairy farmer in Wisconsin whose family has turned to GoFundMe to keep their century-old farm running.
USING YOUR GOLDEN ARROW MULTIPURPOSE CALCULATOR TO DETERMINE THE DATE AND TIME AT YOUR LOCATION AS WELL AS LOCATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE SEETING THE DATE AND TIME FOR YOUR LOCATION
Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate code that corresponds with the time zone in which you live. Select the major city that shares your time zone. Press the code that corresponds to that city (e.g. ,if you live in Washington ,Oregon California, or Nevada, all of which are located in the Pacific time zone, you would choose Los Angeles and press the corresponding code which is the 1 key).
⒈Press TIME twice. The two digits representing hours will begin to flash.
⒉Depress and hold the ▲or▼ key until the desired hour flashes. Then release.
⒊Press SET. The two digits representing minutes will begin to flash.
⒋Depress and hold the ▲or▼ key until the desired minute fleshes. Then release.
⒌Press SET. The two digits representing seconds will begin to flash.
⒍Depress and hold the ▲or▼ key until 00 flashes. The release.
⒎Press SET. To set the year, month, and day press DATE three times. Then repeat steps 2 through 7.
NOTE: At this point, hour, minutes and seconds will change to year, month, and day.
DETERMINAING DATE AND TIME FOR THE WORLD'S16 TIME ZONES
⒈PRESS ZONE TWICE.
⒉Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate the code that corresponds to the time zone for which you desire the date and time. Press that code (e.g., press = to determine the date and time in Hong Kong). The selected date and time will alternately display for 10 seconds and then return automatically to your home date and time.
CODE |
CITY |
TIME |
0 |
Honolulu |
-10 |
1 |
Los Angeles |
-8 |
2 |
Denver |
-7 |
3 |
Chicago |
-6 |
4 |
New York |
-5 |
5 |
Rio de Janeiro |
-3 |
6 |
London |
0 |
7 |
Paris |
+1 |
CODE |
CITY |
TIME |
8 |
Cairo |
+2 |
9 |
Moscow |
+3 |
+ |
Karachi |
+5 |
- |
Bangkok |
+7 |
= |
Hong Kong |
+8 |
* |
Tokyo |
+9 |
/ |
Sydney |
+10 |
# |
Wellington |
+12 |
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