2023-2024学年度外研版选择性必修一Unit6 Nurturing nature课时作业.docVIP

2023-2024学年度外研版选择性必修一Unit6 Nurturing nature课时作业 课时作业(一)　主题阅读集群训练(限时40分钟) Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2023·丹东高三模拟)70% of the global population is likely to live in urban areas by 2050. Feeding residents requires complex supply chains that are easy to collapse. But a new generation of farmers hope to address this by bringing nature back into our cities. “I view urban agriculture as a wonderful Trojan horse (特洛伊木马)，” says Nicolas Brassier, owner of Peas Love, an urban farm that has expanded to seven sites across France and Belgium in the past two years. Brassier and his business partner Maxime Petit share the idea of using urban agriculture to bring food production closer to the people who eat it. But they also hope to make cities nicer places to live by reintroducing nature to them. To do this, they developed a concept where residents pay for access to an urban farm with a combination of individual land, shared growing spaces and a broad range of activities around food production and transformation. The farm is cultivated (耕作) by employees and subscribers. The key to Peas Loves idea is making use of space that would otherwise be bare. At first glance, cities might not seem to have much available land for farming among the pavements and buildings. But the flat roofs of many commercial buildings in cities are space just waiting to be cultivated. The Peas Love story is representative of a growing French movement to address the aging population of farmers. Half of the rural farmers in France will reach retirement age within the next decade. But what “new” space can cities offer? Some urban farms, like Peas Love, use unexpected sites in cities to create “third places” where people can reconnect with nature. Office building roofs, railway tracks and even underused parking lots can now host urban farms. 语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文，主要讲的是PeasLove这个城市农场将农业带进城市的理念和它所带来的启示。 1．Why is the figure mentioned in the first paragraph? A．To show the collapse of complex supply chains. B．To explain the peoples l