Face of American Farmer Changing

王士龙

阅读理解：

1.What does the underlined phrase“subscribe to”meanm？

A.订阅 B.捐款 C.同意 D.申請

2.What is the main idea of the passage？

A.The trend of American farmer changing.

B.The data also suggests U S farms are getting larger.

C.It's a troubling trend signaling big changes ahead for American agriculture.

D.Smaller farms are a main reaction to changes in the way Americans think about their food.

3.What does the underlined sentence mean？

A.The challenges the farmers are facing.

B.The farmers are growing older and older.

C.The farmers are getting harder and harder.

D.The process of bringing food to table is hard for farmers.

答案与解析：

1.C。词义推断题。根据They subscribe to supporting the farm，subscribe to意思是“同意，赞成”，故选C.

2.A。主旨大意题。根据文章第一段最后一句：A new report from the U.S.Census（统计）Bureau is suggesting what some of those changes might look like and why they might not be so troubling.和最后一段的There's one trend that every American farmer can be pleased about.Census data shows that the value of the food they produce rose more than 25 percent in just six years.可知选A.

3.D。细节理解题。根据第9、10、11段可知，D符合语境。A选项是干扰项，意思是：农民面临的挑战，太笼统。

长难句分析：

1.A new report from the US Census Bureau is suggesting what some of those changes might look like and why they might not be so troubling.一份来自美国统计局的新的报告解释了这些改变中的一些可能看起来是什么样子和为什么他们不必那么担心。

这句是个简单句。what some of those changes might look like and why they might not be so troubling作is suggesting的宾语。

2.There's growing interest in where our food is coming from，what is the food quality，things like that.（人们）对我们的食物来自哪里，食物的质量怎样，等等越来越感兴趣。

这句是个简单句。where our food is coming from，what is the food quality，things like that作介词in的宾语。

3.Nate Phillips considers it a positive development that the people who grow the food are beginning to look more like the people who consume the food.奈特·菲利普斯认为这是一种积极的发展，即种植食物的人们开始正变得和消费者更相似。

本句是一个简单句。Nate Phillips是主语，considers作谓语，it作形式宾语，that the people who grow the food are beginning to look more like the people who consume the food是真正的宾语，a positive development作宾语补足语。

4.Nate Phillips，who teaches horticulture at Middle Tennessee State University，says smaller farms are，in part，a reaction to changes in the way Americans think about their food.奈特·菲利普斯是一个在Middle Tennessee StateUniversity教园艺学的老师，他说更小的农场从某部分来说，是美国人对他们食物方式改变的一种反应。

这是一个含有定语从句的复合句。who teaches horticulture at Middle Tennessee State University作Nate Phillips的定语。endprint