英语听力教程5Unit4Part3附标准答案文本

Unit 4 Safe Food?

Part III

A

Mr. Peter Stanton's major point of view: Fish and chips is still the most popular takeaway meal in Britain.

Takeaway meals Sales volume per year

fish and chips 450 million portions

hamburgers380 million

Chinese & Indian takeaway meals 200 million meals

friedchicken140 million meals

pizzas 80 million

Sum of money spent per year ￡1.8 billion Sales volume

perweek 20 million meals

Sum of money spent per head per year ￡36

1. P: Presenter S: Mr. Peter Stanton

P: Fish and chips is the traditional British takeaway meal,it's a completehot meal that can be takenhome toeat or eaten in the street, and it's still the most popular, isn't it, Peter Stanton?聞創沟燴鐺險爱氇谴净。

S: It certainly is, yes. Er ... the figures speak for themselves. For instance, the fish and chip market represents 450 million portions of fish and chips sold per year. This compares with only 380 million takeaway hamburgers a year. Um ... also looking at the ethnic takeaway meal, specially ... um ... Chinese and Indian, that accounts for 200 million meals per year. The fried chicken market, Kentucky and otherwise, that's 140 million meals a year -- 80 million takeaway pizzas per year. And that means that in Britain 20 million takeaway meals are sold per week and as a total, the British spend 1.8 billion pounds per year on takeaway meals and that works out at 36 pounds per head.残骛楼諍锩瀨濟溆塹籟。

B

Dr. Marshall's major point of View: Takeaway meals are stuffed full of fat, sugar and additives酽锕极額閉镇桧猪訣锥。

Takeaway food Content Calories

a half-pound hamburger a small percentage of lean

meat, 25% pure fat, other parts

of the animal

830 calories

a portion of Chinese sweet and

sour chicken

four ounces of pure fat 2 052 calories

milkshakes rarely contain fresh milk and

icecream, but have artificial

flavor, additives

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chips made browner by coloring,

fried in beef fat

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2. P: Presenter M: Dr. Janet Marshall

P: But takeaway meals may not be very good for our health, according to Dr. Janet Marshall.

M: One of the major problems around takeaway food is that restaurants and fast food outlets are not actually required by law to disclose the ingredients in their dishes––unlike for instance supermarkets –– and ... er ... takeaway meals are stuffed full of fat and sugar and additives.

And of course high fat means a large amount of calories. If we look at some of the ... er... th ...

the calorific e... er ... quantities in some of these takeaway foods, for instance hamburgers, which only contain a small percentage of lean meat––the rest being fat and other parts of the animal ––well, a half-pound hamburger contains 25%pure fat. which works out at 830 calories––which is in facthalfa typical woman's daily requirement. And ... um ... ifwe look at ...

er ... atypical portion of Chinese sweet and sour chicken for instance, that would contain four ounces of pure fat, Which works out at 2052 calories! Milkshakes ... um ... very rarely contain freshmilk or icecream and their flavors are generally artificial. And their thickness is attributable to ... er ... additives like emulsifiers and wood pulp. And then the chip, which ...

er ... we all know and love, is often made to look browner through coloring and ... er... chips are often fried in beef fat, which ... er ... is something vegetarians perhaps should be aware of as well.謀荞抟箧飆鐸怼类蒋薔。

C

Mr. Terry Green's major point of view: Takeaway meals cause serious pollution and destroy our environment.厦礴恳蹒骈時盡继價骚。

the use of more and more beef

in hamburger making

cutting down tropical the packaging parts of uneaten茕桢广鳓鯡选块网羈泪。

rainforests to make hamburgers thrown

room for cattle away

greenhouse effecthuge mountains of rubbish

3. P: Presenter G: Mr. Terry Green

P: Terry Green of Friends of the Earth also has misgivings about takeawayfood.鹅娅尽損鹌惨歷茏鴛賴。G: Well ... er ... the meat that they use in these hamburgers is often beef thatthey get from Latin America and ... er ... the beef that they export to theUnited States and Japan and Europe is produced by cutting down tropicalrainforests to make room for the cattle. OK, to produce a single hamburger,five square meters of rainforest have to be destroyed. Now the problem withthis is that people all over the world are being encouraged to eat more andmore beef and the only way they can raise this beef is by cutting down morerainforests. Now the packaging of the hamburgers has got CFCs(chlorofluorocarbons) in it, and we all know ... er ... those contribute to the greenhouse effect. But I guess the most noticeable thing about these fast foodplaces is the huge mountains of rubbish ... er ... from the packaging and the partsof uneaten hamburgers thrown all over the street. It's really disgusting.

P: But is this a typically British phenomenon? ls it just the British way ofeating that is becoming more and more dominated by takeaways? PeterStanton again.

S: No, every country seems to have its own "typical" fast foods. For example,ifwe look at the various ...