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[单项选择]So far as the food industry is concerned, the processing of sheep and lambs is rela tively_______in the United States, accounting for only about 7 percent of meat-packing production.
A. irrelevant
B. negligible
C. redundant
[单项选择]Our research has not shown us anything so far, so there is little （）to continue with it.
A. impatience
B. incentive
C. impulse
D. initiative
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The Americans are eating food which is far too sweet. That people load up with more sugar than ever is unquestionable—156 pounds of added sugars per person last year, up from 144 pounds in 1994, which in turn was up from 127 pounds in 1986. The average American now consumes more than 20 teaspoons of added sugars a day, twice the amount recommended by health experts worldwide. In the frenzy to cut back on fats, people have turned to sugar with a vengeance as a feel-good food. The consumption of fructose alone has risen tenfold since 1975. By squeezing out more nutritious foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy products that can help to prevent disease, a high-sugar diet might be making an important contribution to such problems as osteoporosis, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and, of course, tooth decay. And by contributing so many easy-to-consume empty calories to our daily diets, added sugars are Undoubtedly a major factor in the
[单项选择] So Near and Yet So Far
In many examinations, 90% is an excellent score, deserving a prize and a handshake from the headmaster. In Geneva this week, only full marks would do, and the world’s trade ministers failed. No matter that they came closer to a deal than anyone should have expected. No matter that they stuck at it for nine days and several nights, in the longest ministerial meeting in the history of the World Trade Organization (WTO). No matter, too, that this time they parted in stunned disbelief, heads shaking, rather than in acrimony(刻薄), quarrel and spite, as at Cancun in 2003. They managed "convergence" on 18 of the 20 topics set before them by Pascal Lamy, the WTO’s director-general, but they stumbled on the 19th, a device for protecting farmers in developing countries against surges in imports. They never reached the 20th, cotton. Failed.
You can construct a plausible argument that the collapse of yet anoth
A. trade protectionism
B. developed countries’ limitation on importation
C. higher tariffs on successive stages of production
D. western countries’ economic punishment
