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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.

47. What do we need to do if we keep consuming fish at the current rate?

A
Increase the fishing volume considerably.
B
Develop more advanced fishing technology.
C
Enlarge the marine fish stocks effectively.
D
Expand the scale of fish-farming continuously.
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答案:

D

解析:

解析:D。根据题干中的keep consuming fish at the current rate可定位至原文第四段第一句。该句提到,想要保持目前的鱼类消费速度,我们就一定要持续发展水产养殖。D项与此相符,对应定位句中的keep aquaculture developing,故为正确答案。

错项排除:原文中提到,野生鱼类捕捞量已经趋于稳定,海洋捕捞面临困境,因此大幅增加捕鱼量不是个好办法,故排除A项。B项中的fishing technology在原文中无依据,故排除。C项利用原文中的marine fish stocks设置干扰,但文中只提到海洋鱼类资源已被过度捕捞,没有提到要继续扩大海洋鱼类资源,故排除C项。

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