知行英语综合教程1 Unit4.ppt

1、First Sight,Better Acquaintance,Further Development,Cross-cultural Communication,Real Time,Task 1,Solve the following crossword puzzle. For some words, the first letters are given. You may refer to the tips given.,ACROSS,3 the particular taste of a food or drink,4 very pleasant to taste or smell,7 t

2、he special feeling that is produced by a particular food or drink when you put it in your mouth,8 smelling or tasting of spice; hot,1 a chemical or food that provides what is needed for plants or animals to live and grow,DOWN,2 a unit for measuring the amount of energy that food will produce,5 (of f

3、ood) hard, dry and easily broken like biscuits or potato chips,6 the basic function of your nose,?,Task 2,The following pictures show some important elements of our food system. Match the pictures with the corresponding elements.,1 organic food 2 fast food 3 factory-farmed chickens 4 exhausted soil,

4、A,C,B,D,1 It seems to me that corporations are always trying to get kids to make their parents buy unhealthy food. Kids are led to believe all the advertising on TV. Little kids, especially, are attracted by colorful packaging and plastic toys. I must admit that I used to be one of them. I also used

5、 to think that all of our food came from happy, little farms where pigs rolled in mud and cows grazed on grass all day.,Reading It,Whats Wrong with Our Food System? Birke Baehr,* Words,Better acquaintance,advertising n. 广告宣传,especially ad. 特别；尤其；格外,attract v. 吸引；引起的注意,packaging n. 包装；包裹,plastic a. 塑

6、料（制）的 n. pl. 塑料；塑 料制品,admit v. 承认；准许进入,mud n. 泥；泥浆,graze v. 吃草,1 我觉得食品公司总是试着让像我一样的孩子要父母去买那些不健康食品。他们引导孩子们轻信所有的电视广告。小孩子尤其会被彩色包装和塑料玩具吸引。我必须承认，我曾是他们中的一员，我也曾以为我们所有的食物都来自开心小农场，那里每天猪在泥浆里打滚，牛遍地吃草。,2 I have found out that this is not true. I began to look into this stuff on the Internet, in books and films,

7、and in my travels with my family. I discovered the dark side of the industrialized food system. First is the genetically engineered seeds. A seed is manipulated in a laboratory to do something not intended by nature, like taking the DNA of a fish and putting it into the DNA of a tomato. The seeds ar

8、e then planted and grown. The food they produce have been proven to cause cancer and,other problems in lab animals. People have been eating food produced this way since the 1990s and most folks do not even know whats happening.,stuff n. 材料；东西；原料,*industrialized a. 工业化的,*genetically ad. 在基因上,engineer

9、 v. 设计；策划 n. 工程师,seed n. 种子,*manipulate v. 操纵；控制；影响,laboratory n. 实验室,intend v. 想要；打算；计划,prove v. 证明；证实,cancer n. 癌，癌症,folk n. 人；人们,2 但我发现这不是真的。我开始在互联网、书本、电影和与家人一起的旅行中查找真相。我发现了工业化食品体系的阴暗面。首先是转基因种子。这些种子在实验室里经过改造，让它以违背自然的方式生长。比如提取鱼类的DNA，把它植入到西红柿的DNA 中，然后种植这些种子，让其生长。转基因的食物经用于动物实验证明会引发癌症和其他问题。自20 世纪90 年

10、代起，人们一直在吃这些转基因的食物，而大多数人甚至都不知道怎么回事。,3 Second, conventional farmers use chemical Better Acquaintance fertilizers to make plants grow. They do this because theyve taken away all nutrients from the soil by growing the same crop over and over again. Next, more harmful chemicals are sprayed on fruits and

11、vegetables to kill weeds and bugs. When it rains, these chemicals flow slowly into the ground, or run off into our waterways, poisoning our water too.,4 So I ask myself, “How can I change these things?” A while back, I wanted to be an NFL football player. Now, I have discovered that theres a movemen

12、t for a better way to produce our food and I have decided that Id rather be an organic farmer instead. Hopefully, I will have a greater impact on the world than that of a football player.,*conventional a. 常规的；普通的,chemical a. 化学的 n. 化学制品,*fertilizer n. 肥料,*nutrient n. 营养；滋养物,soil n. 泥土；土地；土壤,harmful

13、a. 有害的；可致损伤的,spray v. 喷；（使）溅散,*weed n. 杂草；野草,bug n. 虫子,flow v. 流动；循环,waterway n. 水路；航道,movement n. （态度、看法或行为的）转变；移动,*organic a. 有机（体）的；有机物的,impact n. 影响；作用；冲击；碰撞,3 第二点，在传统种植方式中，农民使用化肥促进植物生长。农民施肥是因为他们年复一年种植同样的作物，已经穷竭了土壤的所有养分。接下来，他们喷洒更多农药到水果蔬菜上，来杀死杂草和虫子。下雨的时候，这些农药慢慢渗入土地，或流到我们的河流中，我们的水也被污染。,4 所以我问自己，如何

14、才能改变这些状况？就在不久前，我还想成为一个美国国家橄榄球联盟的运动员。现在我发现有一场推动人们用更好的方法来生产食物的运动。我已经决定了，我更愿意成为一个有机农业家，希望这样我会比当一名美式橄榄球运动员能够更好地对世界产生影响。,5 We can all make a difference by making different choices. We should start by buying organic food and buying our food directly from local farmers or our neighbors who we know in real

15、life. Organic food is safer for us and better for the environment and animals. Some people say organic or local food is more expensive, but is it really? With all Ive been learning about the food system, it seems to me that we can either pay the farmer, or we can pay the hospital. Now I know definit

16、ely which one I would choose. I want you to know that there are farms out there whose cows do eat grass and whose pigs do roll in the mud, just as I thought.,environment n. 环境；周围状况,*definitely ad. 明确地,Farmers there dont use any harmful chemicals or genetically engineered seeds. Sometimes I go to a l

17、ocal organic farm and volunteer, so I can see up close and personal where the meat I eat comes from. I want you to know that I believe kids will eat fresh vegetables and good food if they know more about it and where it really comes from. I want you to know that there are farmers markets in every co

18、mmunity.,那儿的农民不使用任何有害的农药和转基因种子。有时我会去本地的有机农场做义工，所以我可以近距离地亲眼看到我吃的肉来自哪里。我想让大家知道，我相信如果孩子们对食物了解更多，知道它们来自哪里，他们就会愿意吃新鲜蔬菜和健康食物。我还希望大家知道在每个社区都有农民集市。,6 Not too long ago, my uncle said that he offered my six-year-old cousin cereal. He asked him if he wanted organic cereal or the sugarcoated flakes. The latter seems more attractive to little kids with sweet flavors and colorful cartoons on its package, but my little cousin told his dad that he would rather have the organic cereal. He made this choice because he remembered what I said about the harm of sweet cereal. Tha