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 We’re eating more fish than ever these days. At around 20 kilograms per person global fish consumption is now more than twice what it was in the 1960s. What’s really remarkable, though, is where that fish comes from.

        For the first time in human history, most of our aquatic (水产的) food now comes from farming rather than fishing.

        People ate around 73 million tonnes of farmed fish—just more than half of the volume of fish that humans consumed—in 2014. That’s out of a total fish supply of 167 million tonnes; the remaining 20 million or so tonnes go into things like animal feed and medical products.

        To keep eating fish at the current rate, we’re definitely going to need to keep aquaculture (水产养殖) developing. That’s because the volume of fish caught in the wild has leveled off since the 1990s.

        Back in 1974, only 10% of marine fish stocks had been overfished. Now, more than three-tenths are. Only a tenth of our oceans’ fish stocks could sustain heavier fishing than current levels.

        But while catchings at sea have suffered, fish-farming has been growing at a fast rate. A lot ofthat is coming from China, which produces 60% of the world’s farmed fish. In fact, some 35 countries, including China, now produce more farmed than wild-caught fish.

        This shift toward aquaculture isn’t just good for ensuring salmon (三文鱼) on your plate; it’s also crucial to ensuring food security and sustainability. By 2050, the world will need to feed an estimated 9.7 billion people. They’ll have to get their protein somewhere. However, raising cattle, pigs, and other land-based animals requires vast sums of grain and water. For example, pound for pound, beef requires 15 times more feed to raise than carp, a freshwater fish farmed all over Asia. That grain—and the water needed to grow it—could be consumed by people instead.

        However, aquaculture is no silver bullet. In some southeast Asian countries, shrimp farming does disastrous damage to marine ecosystems. Despite these problems, however, shrimp continues to be among the most popular seafoods worldwide.

46. What does the author say is remarkable about the fish we eat?

A
They reproduce quickly.
B
They are mostly farmed.
C
They have become as important as grain.
D
They have a longer history than humans.
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答案:

B

解析:

解析:B。根据题干中的remarkable和题文同序原则可定位至原文第一段。该段提到,现在人们吃大量的鱼,但真正值得注意的是,这些鱼都来自哪里。第二段紧接着说到,目前我们大部分的水产食品来自养殖业而非捕捞业,这在人类历史上还是第一次。由此可知,作者想要强调的是,目前人们吃的鱼大多是养殖鱼,故正确答案为B。

错项排除:A项中的reproduce和D项中的longer history在原文中无依据,故均可排除。原文中虽然提到了grain,但没有说鱼变得和谷物一样重要,故排除C项。

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