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Unit 14 Storms make trees take deeper roots. 风暴使树木深深扎根 学习内容 题 材 词 数 建议时间 得分统计 做题备忘 Part A Text 1 社会生活 430 /10 Text 2 文化教育 437 /10 Text 3 商业经济 417 /10 Text 4 社会生活 437 /10 Part B 生态环境 698 /10 Part C 科普知识 459 /10 Part A Directions ：Read the following texts. Answer the questions blow each text by choosing [A],[B],[C] or [D]. Text 1 When Julius Caesar made his triumphal entrance into Rome in 45 BC, he celebrated by giving a feast at which thousands of guests gorged on poultry, seafood and game. Similar celebrations featuring exorbitant consumption of animal flesh have marked human victories — in war, sport, politics and commerce — since our species learned to control fire. Throughout the developing world today, one of the first things people do as they climb out of poverty is to shift from their peasant diet of mainly grains and beans to one that is rich in pork or beef. Since 1950, per capital consumption of meat around the globe has more doubled. Meat, it seems, is not just food but reward as well. But in the coming century, that will change. Much as we have awakened to the full economic and social costs of cigarettes, we will find we can no longer subsidize or ignore the costs of mass-producing cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep and fish to feed our growing population. These costs include hugely inefficient use of fresh water and land, heavy pollution from livestock feces, rising rates of heart disease and other degenerative illness, and spreading destruction of the forests on