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浙江省宁波市2024年初中学业水平考试全效学习英语榜眼试卷
Imagine you're at a restaurant. You order a salad with beautiful green lettuce (生菜), nice red tomatoes, yellow peppers and cucumber. When it comes, you can't wait to take that first mouthful. But stop for a minute and think about how long it actually took to get to your plate. Not from the kitchen, but from the farm.
Let's take a look at a salad served in the United States. "Fresh" food, such as the lettuce, might be grown locally. But what about the other food on your plate? Nowadays, the country of origin (来源) of most of our fresh produce (农产品) - that's the place where produce was grown - is thousands of kilometers away. Produce was picked, washed, packed and brought to a center halfway around the world before it traveled to a store near you. So food which looks fresh has actually traveled in a refrigerated truck for a week.
But that isn't the only problem. Food needs transportation, and all forms of transportation cause air pollution. The farther food travels, the more gas is used, so more pollution is set free. Shipping fresh produce can add up to forty-five times more pollution to the air.
There is a solution, however. We can stop eating food from other countries, and we can buy fresh produce grown locally. The lettuce picked yesterday will taste a lot better. It'll also be healthier than the lettuce picked a week ago. Eating locally-grown produce also means that you eat more kinds. We forget that different fruits and vegetables grow in different seasons. Unluckily, this means we have to eat seasonal fruits and vegetables. That means we can't eat fresh summer fruits and vegetables in the winter. But we really shouldn't anyway!
Welcome to our city—Nanning. It is a beautiful city with many trees and flowers. So it is called "Green City". There are many nice places to visit. Come and enjoy your trip to Nanning.
Place: Nanning Qingxiu Mountain | ||
Location: in the southeast of Nanning | ||
Attractions: green trees, special rocks, beautiful lakes and clean springs | ||
Price: 15 yuan (Adults) Opening time: 7:00—18:00 | ||
Place: Guangxi Science & Technology Museum | ||
Location: Minzu Avenue | ||
Attractions: robot show, Youth Science Studio, the high technology theater | ||
Price: 30 yuan (Adults) Free (Children below 1.40 m) Opening time: 9:30 —17:00 (Tuesday—Sunday) Monday (closed) | ||
Place: Nanning Zoo | ||
Location: in the west of Nanning | ||
Attractions: wild animals, dolphin show, Caribbean Water World | ||
Price: 50 yuan (Adults) 20 yuan (Children 1.20 m—1.40 m) Free (Children below 1.20 m) Opening time: 8:00—17:00 | ||
Place: Zhongshan Food Street | ||
Location: Zhongshan Road | ||
Attractions: different kinds of local flavors (风味), Laoyou Noodles, snails and BBQ | ||
Opening time: 6:00 p.m.—midnight |
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