Thanks to the “sugar tax”， food factories hav...

Thanks to the “sugar tax”， food factories have reduced sugar in their products, ________ about 45 million kilograms of sugar.

A.to save B.saved

C.saving D.having saved

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Thanks to the “sugar tax”， food factories have reduced sugar in their products, ________ about 45 million kilograms of sugar.

A. to save　　 B. saved

C. saving　　 D. having saved

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My doctor advised me to reduce the amount of sugar ______ to the milk I drink.

A. add       B. to add   C. adding  D. added

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The Chinese agricultural tax wasn’t completely abolished______2006, which reduced the farmers’ burden greatly.

A．until             B．before            C．since             D．after

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The Women’s Institute is urging supermarkets to do more to help consumers reduce their home food waste, after a survey of its own membership showed widespread confusion about “best before” and “use by” labeling(标签) on packaging.

Its new analysis of products on supermarket shelves found that “once-opened” instructions were often contradictory and often failed to make clear whether they were a guide to food safety or quality. Only 45% of 5,000 WI members surveyed understood that best-before dates were a sign of food quality, while 26% did not understand that the more important use-by dates were a decisive guide to food safety.

In its report on food waste, the WI said supermarkets were “potentially contributing to home food waste by leading customers to buy more food than they need, and giving conflicting and confusing on-pack information that leaves customers unsure about how long a product remains safe to eat in the home setting”. The 42-page report is part of the WI’s ongoing campaign to reduce food waste. To underline the point about conflicting information, it cites(引用) a can of Sainsbury’s own-brand sweetcorn advising consumers to eat it within one day of opening, while a similar tin from Waitrose gave consumers two days to finish it. Green Giant sweetcorn, however, has no specified date for eating once opened.

Marylyn Haines Evans, chair of the Women’s Institute’s public affairs said: “WI members are some of the more informed members of society about food and cookery, but they are still confused about food labelling and ‘once-opened’ information. So we would like supermarkets to extend the amount of time that consumers have to use a product in their homes by making all of their once-opened instructions on product packaging consistent, and completely remove once-opened instructions on products where food safety is not an issue.”

1.What mainly leads to food waste according to WI?

A. Poor quality of food.

B. Attractive packaging of products.

C. Competition among supermarkets.

D. Consumers’ confusion about on-pack information.

2.Which of the following can inform you of food safety?

A. 　　 B.

C. 　　 D.

3.Why are the three supermarkets mentioned in Paragraph 3?

A. To attract more consumers.

B. To compare their products.

C. To comment on their service.

D. To make WI’s report convincing.

4.What does Evans suggest supermarkets do about reducing food waste?

A. Extend life of a product.

B. Turn to well-informed WI members.

C. Give consistent once-opened instructions.

D. Remove instructions on product packaging.

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As less people choose to make sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a 1. (distance) memory in some ways. However, a 38-year-old craftsman, Li Jiangzhong, is committed to 2. (keep) the art of sugar painting alive.

Li worked as a miner for more than ten years. After 3. mine closed down, Li turned 4. housing decoration, until he 5.(force) to give that up due to a finger injury. Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really had an interest in.

Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by 6. (he) through large quantities of videos and information on the Internet. Li loved painting when he was young, and he found it easy to learn the skill in sugar painting. He soon mastered the skill and could make a 7.(vary) of sugar paintings. A sugar painting is made with 8.(melt) brown or white sugar. Craftsman 9.(normal) paint animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup(糖浆). When the sugar cools down, 10. appears is a piece of sugar art.

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Thanks to a South Korean drama currently on air, Man From the Stars, this new mix — match junk food trend has become popular among young audiences, _____its un­healthy nature.

A. in favor of    　　　　 B.    in terms of    　　 C. in case of    　　　　　　 D.    in spite of

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Thanks to a South Korean drama currently on air, Man From the Stars, this new mix-match junk food has become popular among young audiences, _____its un­healthy nature.

A. in favor of    　　　　     B. in terms of

C. in need of            D. in spite of

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The government is aiming to reduce the unemployment, but it’s quite _______ to have a job at all these days.

A．anything          B．something         C．somewhere        D．nothing

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A global group of scientists have reduced the time it takes to find and introduce disease-resistance genes from wild plants into domestic crops such as rice, wheat and potato, a research revealed on Tuesday.

Scientists from the John Innes Center in Britain, along with colleagues from Australia and the United States, have created a database known as AgRenSeq, where researchers can easily search for resistance genes already discovered in wild relatives of modern crops.

The study was co-authored by a global expert Professor HarbansBariana from the University of Sydney, who said that this technology will support the discovery and characterization of new sources of disease resistance in plants. Once researchers have identified resistance genes using AgRenSeq, they can clone them and introduce them to domestic crops to protect against diseases and pests,

“We have found a way to scan the genome(基因组)of a wild relative of a crop plant and pick out the resistance genes we need and we can do it in record time,” Dr. Brande Wulff, a project leader from the John Innes Centre, said.

“This used to be a process that took l0 Or 15 years and was like searching for a needle in a haystack(干草堆),” Wulff said. “We have perfected the method so that we can clone these genes in a matter of months and for just thousands of dollars instead of millions.”

The team are highly optimistic about their work, predicting it to be utilized in protecting many crops with wild relatives including soybeans, pea, cotton, potato, wheat, rice, banana and cocoa. “Using speed cloning and speed breeding we could deliver resistance genes into the best varieties within a couple of years, like a phoenix(凤凰) rising from the ashes,” Wulff added.

1.How have the researchers developed the resistance genes?

A.By reducing the research time.

B.By introducing them to wild plants.

C.By cloning them from domestic crops.

D.By getting resistance genes from wild plants.

2.What will be the use of the study in the future?

A.It will protect crops from being damaged by pests.

B.It will create a database for researchers to search.

C.It will protect domestic crops for 10 to 15 years.

D.It will contribute to reducing the wild plants.

3.Which of the following best explains “utilized” underlined in Paragraph 6?

A.Produced. B.Made.

C.Used. D.Studied.

4.What can we infer from what Brande Wulff said?

A.The resistance genes cost millions of dollars.

B.The resistance genes were found in a haystack.

C.It took the researchers ten years to find the resistance genes.

D.Disease-resistance genes will be put into practice soon.

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