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课时作业1　Friendship Ⅰ.阅读理解 (2015·江苏省南通中学测试) Why Are Pig Farmers Still Using Growth-Promoting Drugs? Its one of the most controversial practices in agriculture: feeding small amounts of antibiotics to animals in order to make them grow faster. But what if the drugs dont even work very well? Theres some good evidence that they dont, at least in pigs. They used to deliver a boost in growth, but that effect has disappeared in recent years or declined greatly. The reason for this is interesting and even paradoxical. Researchers think the antibiotics used to work by suppressing low-grade infections. In