Face of American Farmer Changing

王士龍

閱讀理解：

1.What does the underlined phrase“subscribe to”meanm？

A.訂閱 B.捐款 C.同意 D.申請

2.What is the main idea of the passage？

A.The trend of American farmer changing.

B.The data also suggests U S farms are getting larger.

C.It's a troubling trend signaling big changes ahead for American agriculture.

D.Smaller farms are a main reaction to changes in the way Americans think about their food.

3.What does the underlined sentence mean？

A.The challenges the farmers are facing.

B.The farmers are growing older and older.

C.The farmers are getting harder and harder.

D.The process of bringing food to table is hard for farmers.

答案與解析：

1.C。詞義推斷題。根據(jù)They subscribe to supporting the farm，subscribe to意思是“同意，贊成”，故選C.

2.A。主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章第一段最后一句：A new report from the U.S.Census（統(tǒng)計）Bureau is suggesting what some of those changes might look like and why they might not be so troubling.和最后一段的There's one trend that every American farmer can be pleased about.Census data shows that the value of the food they produce rose more than 25 percent in just six years.可知選A.

3.D。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第9、10、11段可知，D符合語境。A選項是干擾項，意思是：農(nóng)民面臨的挑戰(zhàn)，太籠統(tǒng)。

長難句分析：

1.A new report from the US Census Bureau is suggesting what some of those changes might look like and why they might not be so troubling.一份來自美國統(tǒng)計局的新的報告解釋了這些改變中的一些可能看起來是什么樣子和為什么他們不必那么擔心。

這句是個簡單句。what some of those changes might look like and why they might not be so troubling作is suggesting的賓語。

2.There's growing interest in where our food is coming from，what is the food quality，things like that.（人們）對我們的食物來自哪里，食物的質(zhì)量怎樣，等等越來越感興趣。

這句是個簡單句。where our food is coming from，what is the food quality，things like that作介詞in的賓語。

3.Nate Phillips considers it a positive development that the people who grow the food are beginning to look more like the people who consume the food.奈特·菲利普斯認為這是一種積極的發(fā)展，即種植食物的人們開始正變得和消費者更相似。

本句是一個簡單句。Nate Phillips是主語，considers作謂語，it作形式賓語，that the people who grow the food are beginning to look more like the people who consume the food是真正的賓語，a positive development作賓語補足語。

4.Nate Phillips，who teaches horticulture at Middle Tennessee State University，says smaller farms are，in part，a reaction to changes in the way Americans think about their food.奈特·菲利普斯是一個在Middle Tennessee StateUniversity教園藝學的老師，他說更小的農(nóng)場從某部分來說，是美國人對他們食物方式改變的一種反應。

這是一個含有定語從句的復合句。who teaches horticulture at Middle Tennessee State University作Nate Phillips的定語。endprint