LESSON

06

Further Questions for Reading (교과서 pp.126-133)

Class    Name

Sold in stores everywhere, bacon

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may be a triumph of modern living, but there is a dark side to the bacon industry. Pigs are raised in confined pens and fed corn that has been grown in vast fields that stretch as far as the eye can see.

(A) To grow the corn, a huge amount of fertilizer is used, which eventually gets washed into rivers and streams. This affects the ecosystems of such bodies of water, and the fertilizer runoff ends up in fish and other marine life for kilometers around. This is the process necessary to get bacon onto our breakfast tables.

(B) Every year, over one billion tons of grain is consumed by farm animals. More than two thirds of all agricultural land is used to raise grains and vegetables for livestock while merely eight percent of the agricultural land is used to grow food for direct human consumption.

(C) Annual meat consumption has reached an average of over 40 kilograms per person globally, and the demand is increasing. To meet growing demand, livestock industries have turned to large scale “manufacturing” of meat in huge “factories.” Such a move, however, puts strain on the environment, in particular on the land and water resources of the earth.

※ 지문을 읽고, 다음 물음에 답하시오.

1 이 글의 목적으로 가장 적절한 것은?

① to object to raising domestic animals

② to insist that meat contributes to bad

health

③ to explain the harmful effects of livestock

industry

④ to introduce the process of making and

selling bacon

2 이 글의 밑줄 친 부분이 의미하는 것에 해당하지 않는 것은?

① 베이컨이 도처의 상점에서 팔린다.

② 돼지들이 좁은 우리에서 사육된다.

③ 옥수수 재배를 위해 많은 비료가 사용된다.

④ 비료 유출수가 해양을 오염시킨다.

3 이 글의 주어진 (A), (B), (C)를 바르게 배열한

것은?

① (A) – (B) – (C)

② (A) – (C) – (B)

③ (B) – (A) – (C)

④ (B) – (C) – (A)

Further Questions for Reading

As more people want more meat,

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ⓐ it is inevitable that land for livestock be extended to meet the demand. More meat production results in increased water pollution in both rivers and oceans since cows and pigs eat a lot and at the same time produce a lot of manure.

Livestock is said to produce 130

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times as much manure as humans in the U.S. When not managed properly, the manure and water containing ⓑ it cause severe harm to the ecosystems of rivers and oceans. When rain comes, manure is washed away with the runoff, polluting nearby soil, streams, and rivers all the way until ⓒ it reaches the ocean.

Once it reaches the ocean, ⓓ it

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contributes to the formation of what is known as a “dead zone.” Dead zones occur around the world, primarily near areas where heavy farming and industrial activity spill nutrients into the water. Concentrated levels of nutrients in water result in the blooming of algae, which are simple forms of water plants. When too many plants grow in the water, they use up the ocean’s oxygen, suffocating other plants and animals. The largest known dead zone occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in 2002, when runoff from the Mississippi River caused over 20,000 square kilometers of the Gulf area to become uninhabitable for oceanic life.

4 이 글의 밑줄 친 ⓐ~ⓓ 중 가리키는 것이 다른

하나는?

① ⓐ               ② ⓑ

③ ⓒ               ④ ⓓ

5 이 글의 제목으로 가장 알맞은 것은?

① Marine Life Cannot Live in Dead Zones

② Why I s Livestock Industry Being Extended?

③ What Causes Oceans to Become Dead?

④ What Should We Do to Protect Our

Environment?

6 에서 다음 영영 풀이에 해당하는

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단어를 찾아 쓰시오.

impossible to live as it is dangerous or unhealthy

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Further Questions for Reading

The increasing demand for meat

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and meat products brings trouble not only to the natural resources under our feet but also to those overhead in the atmosphere. Even though carbon dioxide is a major cause of global warming in the air, recent research has shown that methane can have a greater impact.

Methane is responsible for about

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16 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. That doesn’t seem like much, but experts warn that methane is over 20 times as powerful as carbon dioxide in trapping the sun’s heat in the atmosphere. Where does all the methane come from?

Much of the methane in the

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atmosphere is released naturally in damp areas. However, about 15 percent is emitted by the growing number of cows and pigs. Statistics vary about the exact amount of methane emitted by a cow, but it is generally agreed that a single cow releases up to 120 kilograms of methane per year, more than any other domestic animal. That is about 1,000 times the amount of methane emitted by an average person.

( ⓐ ) Methane is produced in a

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cow’s special digestive system. ( ⓑ ) A cow has a stomach with four rooms to break down the food it eats. ( ⓒ ) A cow does this for about eight hours on average every day during which it keeps burping and passing gas, giving off methane into the atmosphere. ( ⓓ ) Imagine the enormous amount of methane emitted from the burping mouths of 1.5 billion cows on six continents.

7 이 글에서 메탄가스에 관한 내용과 일치하지

않는 것은?

① 이산화탄소보다 강력한 온실가스이다.

② 방출되는 지구 온실가스 중 16퍼센트를 차지한다.

③ 소가 메탄가스의 주 배출원이다.

④ 소의 소화기 계통에서 만들어진다.

8 의 ⓐ~ⓓ 중 다음 문장이

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들어가기에 적절한 곳은?

The food digested in the first two rooms is sent to the mouth to be chewed again, and then sent to the third and the fourth rooms.

① ⓐ              ② ⓑ

③ ⓒ              ④ ⓓ

9 다음은 이 글의 주장을 요약한 것이다. 빈칸에

들어갈 가장 적절한 말은?

We need to ____________________________

in order to protect the environment.

① prevent overpopulation

② reduce greenhouse gas emissions

③ cut down on our meat consumption

④ find ways to meet the growing demand

for meat

Further Questions for Reading                                             pp.200~202

Lesson 6 My Promise with Mother Nature

Answers

1 ③

2 ①

3 ②

4 ①

5 ③

6 uninhabitable

7 ③

8 ③

9 ③