Can better food create better people? This is the true idea that is driving the development of today’s farming quickly.

The future food is the best food. Scientists will put real-time sensors into our bodies that can read the information of what our bodies need. A personal health system will be able to study the information that the sensor provides before making a food order. Then the order will go to the local food supplier, who will get in touch with the food maker on the farm. The entire supply will be controlled by computer according to the needs of the end user. Food from restaurants will come in over a million kinds. Customers will be able to order the food that is really good for their health.

By 2050, a farm will use technologies that will leave today’s farming far behind. A farm, as shown by Despommier, a farming scientist, will be a 30-storey-tall building and used to grow plants without soil. The farms of the future will grow half-plant, half-animal products, and people will be able to control nature. Special crops will be grown in this controlled special space, such as short stalk corn, personalized fruits and vegetables.

Besides growing food , new ways will be found to “ grow ” products . We will also be able to control plants in other ways . For example , we will some day be able to “ train ” a tree to grow its branches into the shape of tables , coffee tables , chairs , or rocking chairs . Once these unusual branches are fully grown , farmers can walk up to the tree and harvest the rocking chairs by cutting them off , which is the same as harvesting apples or pears .

The entire production area in the future will be managed by a robot that travels up and down doing all the necessary jobs of planting , weeding , watering , and harvesting .

56. The real- time sensors in our bodies will find out        .

A. what we like and what we hate          B. whether we are healthy or not

C. how much food we need               D. what food our bodies need

57. The food order goes to the local food supplier so that        .

A. the needs of the end user will be well met

B. the food supplier will not waste any money

C. the food maker will know how to grow plants

D. the food supplier will know what healthy food is

58. What can we infer from Paragraph 3 ?

A. Crops will take longer to grow by 2050 .

B. In the future , there will be no animal products .

C. Crops in the future will be very different from today’s .

D. Crops in the future will grow without sunshine , water , or soil .

 

 

 

 

 

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Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.
The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster, population and economic trends. It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (營(yíng)養(yǎng)不良) and heat-related health problems.
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12.A. if                                           B. as                                      C. while                       D. although

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