Your Bean Steak （素肉排), Sir!What sort of food are we likely to be eating in the year

Your Bean Steak (素肉排), Sir!

What sort of food are we likely to be eating in the year 2000？

Most people, when you ask them a question like that, either say: " There won't be any left, " or "Whatever it is, there won't be much taste in it." Of course, there are good reasons for being worried about the world's food supplies in the future.Nevertheless, not all the experts share these worries.

For one thing, although the world's population is rising fast, food production is keeping pace with it, even in developing countries.It is therefore argued that the main reason why people are hungry is not that there is a world food shortage but that methods of cultivation are not sufficiently advanced in some areas and the food is not fairly distributed (分配 ).

This does not mean, however, that our diet (饮食 ) will go on being the same.In many industrialized countries, people feed animals with grain to produce high-quality beef, even though the grain would feed the human population, and use fishmeal to fatten pigs to improve the quality of bacon.While not many of us would like fishmeal for lunch, its nutritional value is high and the unattractive fish it is made from can be presented to the public in colorful packets of fish fingers.

By the year 2000, many of these problems will have been solved.Scientists are already capable of making steaks from soy beans.It is quite obvious that there will still be enough to eat, if we are not too particular about where the food comes from and what it is made of.

1.Most people believe that food supplies in the future().

A、will become a very serious problem

B、will be the same as they are today

C、will be enough in quantity but not good in quality

D、will be much better than they are today

2.The reason why people are hungry in today's world is().

A、poor farming methods and bad distribution

B、slow growth of food production

C、food shortages all across the world

D、fast rising population

3.The word "bacon" in Line 5, Para.3 most probably is().

A、a kind of "meat" made from grain

B、meat made from fish

C、food for fish

D、meat made from pigs

4.The word "particular" in Line 4, Para.4 means().

A、special

B、choosy

C、detailed

D、very exact

5.The title of this passage suggests that().

A、food in the future will be tasteless

B、there will be worldwide food shortages

C、diet in the future will be very different

D、science is making rapid progress