How to find your way out of a food desert

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题目与答案

1. Data on food deserts and their effects on health

   The Brooklyn Food Association

   ·The online map provides users with a store’s name, 1_____ and details of its produce.

   答案：location

   原文定位：Clicking on a dot will show you the store's name and whether it carries fresh fruit and vegetables, wholegrain bread, low-fat dairy and other healthy options

2. 10 The city government has taken a considerable interest in the Brooklyn project website.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：FALSE

   原文定位：Their website hasn’t caught them much local or official attention yet, however

   同义替换：「city government」↔「official」

3. 11 Michele Ver Ploeg believes the Brooklyn project website should contain additional information.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：This kind of detailed information could be very useful’ says Michele Ver Ploeg, an economist for the Department of Agriculture. To make the map more helpful to both residents and policy makers, she would like to see price data for healthy products, too

4. 12 The rate of internet use in Brooklyn is unlikely to increase in the near future.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：NOT GIVEN

   原文定位：In fact, a significant proportion of Brooklyn residents don’t have internet access at home and 8 percent rely on dial-up service, instead of high-speed internet access, according to Gretchen Maneval, director of Brooklyn College’s Center for the study of Brooklyn

5. 13 Jeffrey Heehs would like more people to assist with the Brooklyn project research.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：He also hopes warmer days in the spring will draw out fresh volunteers to spread awareness and to finish surveying, as they have about two-thirds of Brooklyn left to cover

   同义替换：「research」↔「surveying」

6. ·One goal of the mapping project is to help develop new 2_____ on food.

   答案：policies

   原文定位：The aim of the project is also to assist government officials in assessing food availability, and in forming future policies about what kind of food should be sold and where

   同义替换：「goal」↔「aim」，「help develop new」↔「forming future」，「policies about food」↔「policies about what kind of food should be sold and where」

7. ·Citizen maps are sometimes made when 3_____ maps are unsatisfactory.

   答案：government

   原文定位：According to Michael Goodchild, a geographer at the University of California at Santa Barbara, citizen map makers may make maps because there is no good government map, or to record problems such as burned-out traffic lights

   同义替换：「unsatisfactory」↔「no good」

8. Reasons for the development of food deserts

   ·New research suggests that people living in food deserts often have low 4_____ .

   答案：incomes

   原文定位：According to recent studies, people at higher risk of chronic disease and who receive minimal incomes for the work they do, frequently live in neighborhoods located in food deserts

   同义替换：「low」↔「minimal」，「often」↔「frequently」

9. ·Some supermarkets are unable to buy enough 5_____ inside cities for their stores.

   答案：land

   原文定位：Linda Alwitt and Thomas Donley, marketing researchers at DePaul University in Chicago, found that supermarkets often can’t afford the amount of land required for their stores in cities

   同义替换：「unable to buy」↔「can’t afford」，「enough」↔「the amount of」

10. ·Small grocery stores in cities often cannot cope with supermarket 6_____ .

    答案：suburban

    原文定位：Cliff Guy and colleagues at the University of Leeds in the UK found in 2004 that smaller urban groceries tend to close due to competition from suburban supermarkets

    同义替换：「cities」↔「urban」，「cannot cope with」↔「competition from」

11. 7 A group of professional researchers are in charge of the Brooklyn project.
    • TRUE
    • FALSE
    • NOT GIVEN

    答案：FALSE

    原文定位：The Brooklyn project differs in that it’s run by a local core of five volunteers who have worked on the project for the past year, rather than trained, academic researchers

    同义替换：「professional」↔「trained, academic」

12. 8 The Brooklyn project team carries out their assessment of stores without the owner’s knowledge.
    • TRUE
    • FALSE
    • NOT GIVEN

    答案：FALSE

    原文定位：To gather data, they simply go to individual stores with pre-printed surveys in hand, and once the storekeeper's permission has been obtained, check off boxes on their list against the products for sole in the store

13. 9 The Brooklyn project has experienced technical difficulties setting up the website.
    • TRUE
    • FALSE
    • NOT GIVEN

    答案：NOT GIVEN

    原文定位：Their website hasn’t caught them much local or official attention yet, however. It was launched only recently, but its creators haven’t yet set up systems to see who’s looking at it;Heehs says of the online map. They’ll start advertising it online and by email to other community groups, such as urban food garden associations, next month