补全短文,职称英语理工B.docxVIP

补全短文第六篇 Dung to Death　Fields across Europe are contaminated with dangerous levels of the antibiotics given to farm animals. The drugs, which are in manure sprayed onto fields as fertilizers, could be getting into our food and water, helping to create a new generation of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”.2　The warning comes from a researcher in Switzerland who looked at levels of the drugs in farm slurry. ____1____ E　His findings are particularly shocking because Switzerland is one of the few countries to have banned antibiotics as growth promoters in animal feed.　Some 20,000 tons of antibiotics are used in the European Union and the US each year. More than half are given to farm-animals to prevent disease and promote growth. ____2__ D　But recent research has found a direct link between the increased use of these farmyard drugs and the appearance of antibiotic-resistant bugs that infect people.　Most researchers assumed that humans become infected with the resistant strains by eating contaminated meat3. But far more of the drugs end up in manure than in meat products, says Stephen Mueller of the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology m Dubendorf. ____3__B And manure contains especially high levels of bugs that are resistar.t to antibiotics, he says.　With millions of tons of animals manure spread onto fields of crops such as wheat and barley each year, this pathway seems an equally likely route for spreading resistance,4 he said. The drugs contaminate the crops, which are then eaten. ____4__F They could also be leaching into tap water pumped from rocks beneath fertilized fields.　Mueller is particularly concerned about a group of antibiotics called sulphonamides. ____5_ A　They do not easily degrade or dissolve in water.___ His analysis found that Swiss farm manure contains a high percentage of sulphonamides; each hectare of field could be contaminated with up to 1 kilogram of the drugs. This concentration is high enough to trigger the developmen