四六级

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　　Over the past century or so, as rood production inthe West, but particularly in Britain and America. hasbecome more industrialised and the population hasbecome more urban, cured and dried products havebecome scarcer. The salami or chorizo you buy in asupermarket will probably have been cooked orirradiated rather than cured, which is a less foolproof method of killing pathogens (病原体).Other reasons for the decline in proper meat-curing include the disappearance of theneighbourhood butcher; the downward trend in meatconsumption; and, in the United States,the assimilation of the European immigrants who originally broughttheir sausage-makingtraditions with them-particularly the Italians, but also the Hungarians, Polish and Portuguese.

　　Americans with a taste for imported sausages cannot easily indulge it.Anyone wanting toexport cured meal lo the United States must have a representative from the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture at the site of production and must follow the same severeprocedures that have been felling American sausage-makers.Producers must keep voluminouslogs on everything from the temperature of the storage mom-measured and recorded everyfour Hours-to the meat products' pH level, che proportion of water in dry-cured sausages andthe cleanliness of their employees' shoes and clothing.

　　Jamon iberico-without question the most glorious use to which a pig can be put on this planet-has not beenlegally available in che United States until now. but will become so from 2007because the Department of Agriculture has at long last decided that the methods used bySpanish artisans for millennia are unlikely to poison American citizens. Stealthy Americanshave always packed sausages in their luggage when returningfrom European holidays. butcustoms inspections are surprisingly frequent and intrusive. Confiscated(没收)products areusually eaten. as they should be: your correspondent, returning to Washington fromsouthernFrance, tried to hide a couple of saucissons de Lyon in his luggage. which made apoliceman's German shepherd dog very happy.

　　Whatever one may think of the benefits or detriments of agricultural and culinary (烹饪的)industrialisation. it seems clear that it has contributed a lot of dull-tasting products. Given achoice. eaters vote with their palate: there really is no comparison between an artisan-madesausage pulled down from a butcher'sceiling and a shrink-wrapped salami on a supermarketshelf. The proper stuff is gaining ground, but it hasbecome a luxury item, appealing to tasteand refinement rather than convenience or economy.

　　1.Which kind of food is safer, cured food or irradiated food?

　　2.What is the result of the assimilation of European immigrants in the United States?

　　3.The United States makes it difficult for European sausages to enter its market by a set of___________________.

　　4.The sausages packed in the luggage, which cannot escape customs' inspections,will most probably end up being eaten by___________________.

　　5.The author thinks the taste of the shrink-wrapped salamis on a supermarket shelf is_______________________.

　　参考答案：

　　1.[Irradiated food./The latter.]

　　[定位]根据irradiated查找到首段第2句。

　　解析：原文该句中的非限制性定语从句的先行词应为cured (food)，less foolproof 表明cured food在安全性方面不如irradiated food。

　　2.[The decline in proper meat-curing.]

　　[定位]根据European immigrants查找到首段末句。

　　解析：原文该句先指出肉类熏制手段越来越少这一结果，然后列举了3个原因，本题题干就是该段末提到的第3个原因，由此可见，该句开头提到的the decline in proper meat-curing就是本题答案。

　　3.[severe procedures]

　　[定位]根据United States查找到第2段第2句。

　　解析：第2段重点指出了美国对进口香肠有一套严格的制度，这就是欧洲香肠难以进入美国市场的原因。

　　4.[police dogs]

　　[定位]根据1uggage查找到第3段末句。

　　解析：原文该段末句表明没收的香肠最终会被a policeman's German shepherd dog吃掉，但它并非本题答案，因为这只是一个特殊例子里提到的特殊信息。而并非所有警犬的品种都是德国牧羊犬，因此，本题答案应为“警犬”，即police dogs。

　　5.[dull]

　　[定位]根据shrink-wrapped查找到末段。

　　解析：末段首句指出工业化使食物变得毫无味道，第2句通过对比手工制作的香肠和超市出售的香肠，主要为了说明前者美味无比，而后者就是工业化制作的产物，因此要形容这种食物的味道，最好的形容词就是首句提到过的dull-tasting，因为题干中已出现了taste一词，因此本题答案为dull。

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