赢在课堂2018英语人教版必修4课件：拓展阅读2.pptVIP

-*- 拓展阅读 -*- -*- 拓展阅读 CHENDUWANSONG 晨读晚诵 X INZHI DAOXUE 新知导学 DAYI JIEHUO 答疑解惑 -*- 拓展阅读 CHENDUWANSONG 晨读晚诵 X INZHI DAOXUE 新知导学 DAYI JIEHUO 答疑解惑 拓展阅读 词海拾贝 理解诱思 【文章导语】Agriculture plays an important part in the world.But do you know the relation between agriculture and our health?Do you know hidden hunger? 农业在世界上起着重要的作用。但是你知道农业和健康之间的关系吗?你知道隐形饥饿吗? 词海拾贝 理解诱思 How much can farming really improve people’s health?In a market in southern Uganda two traders squat behind little piles of sweet potatoes and a sign that says “with extra vitamin① A”.A passing shopper complains about the price:10% more than ordinary sweet potatoes.Yes,say the traders,but they’re better,bred② with extra vitamin A.The bargaining goes back and forth,but the struggle to improve the crop has already been won.Since 2007,when an outfit began distributing the “biofortified”(生物合成) root crop in Uganda and Mozambique,50,000 farmers have started to plant it or crops like it.Vitamin A intake has increased and the produce commands higher prices.The shopper eventually buys some. 词海拾贝 理解诱思 Nutrition has long been the Cinderella③ of development.Lack of calories—hunger—is a headline-grabber,particularly as rising food prices push more people towards starvation.But the hidden hunger harms even more people and inflicts lasting damage on them and their societies.It,too,worsens as food prices rise:families switch from costly,nutrient-rich,fruit,vegetables and meat to cheaper,nutrient-poor staples. In 2008 the Copenhagen Business School asked eight famous economists④ to imagine they had $75 billion to spend on causes that would most help the world.Five of their top ten involved nutrition:vitamin supplements for children,adding zinc and iodine to salt and breeding extra micronutrients into crops (like those sweet potatoes).Others included girls’ schools and trade liberalization⑤. 词海拾贝 理解诱思 [译文] 农业到底能为促进人类健康贡献多少?乌干达南部的一个市场上,两个小贩蹲坐在一小堆红薯边,一旁的牌子上写着“富含维生素A”。一位顾客路过,抱怨价格太贵:比一般红薯贵10%。贵是贵一点,小贩解释道,但是这种红薯更优质,富含更多维生素A。虽然还要再讨价