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托福培训 / 托福阅读材料：环保不吃肉 托福阅读一直都是考生们不容易对付的一部分类型题：它在托福考试中比重较大，分值和其他题型 对等 ，但题量却比较大，生词难点也较多。在托福阅读中，理解力至关重要。一篇文章要想答对题，就 必须理解正确，如果理解力差，一连错很多题是非常有可能的。那么，如何提高阅读速度和答题率呢?下 面， 100教育给大家提供一些托福阅读材料 ，供大家阅读，以增加知识面锻炼阅读能力。 In a new book, British farmer and former editor Simon Fairlie says eatingmeat in moderation may be good for the environment。 Countless studies claim that eating meat harms the planet and contributesto global warming. The U.N.s 2006 Food and Agriculture Organization reportstates that meat produces 18% of the worlds carbon emissions —more than theglobal transport infrastructure. But in his new book, Meat: A BenignExtravagance, Simon Fairlie, a British farmer and former editor of the Ecologistmagazine, tears apart the theory that being carnivorous is bad for the planet—and says that eating moderate amounts of meat could be greener than goingvegan. Simon Fairlie 是英国的一个农场主，曾是《生态学家》杂志的编辑，在一本新书中他介绍道食用食量的 肉类有益于环境。 无数的研究都表明吃肉危害地球，推动了全球变暖。联合国粮农组织2006年的报告称肉类生产时的碳排 放量达到了世界总量的18%，这比全球基础交通运输的碳排量还要高。但是在这本书中，肉类被称为良 性奢侈品，SimonFairlie反对食肉有害于地球这种观点，并且认为食用适量的肉类比素食更环保。 Why is livestock beneficial to the environment rather than being bad forthe planet. ? Every agricultural system produces a surplus of waste and hard-to-usebiomass that is best kept in the food chain by feeding it to livestock. Meat ordairy produced this way has little extra environmental impact. Animals kept onsmall farms also produce benefits, such as fending off predators and pests andfertilizing soil. 为何牲畜对地球有利而不是有害? 每一次的农耕都会有剩余的废物遗留下来，这些东西也很难加以利用，却可以用来饲养牲畜，形成最好 的食物链。以这种方式生产出来的肉类和奶制品对环境几乎没有额外的影响。小农场饲养的动物也可以 产生效益，比如说可以抵御其他的捕食动物和害虫以及提高土壤肥力。 What are the most sustainable types of meat to eat? Pigs fed off food waste, whey and other forms of garden and agriculturalwaste. Dairy cows that are eating grass and clover as part of mixed-arablerotation. They have very little toll on the environment and are, on