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CET-4 Bananas, always the fashion victims of the produce section, are wearing another new label this spring. Bananas with “Fair Trade Certified” stickers have been available in the United States since October. They represent the new front of an international effort to help first-world consumers improve the living standards of the third-world farmers who grow much of their food. By expanding its reach to the produce section, Fair Trade is now trying to reach the American supermarket shopper. Fair Trade deals directly with farmer cooperatives. It helps organize, avoiding brokers (代理人) and middlemen. It guarantees higher prices for the farmers’ goods and helps them set up schools and health clinics. The Fair Trade movement took root in Europe in the 1990’s as a way of bolstering coffee farmers as prices were collapsing. Since Fair Trade began, more than a million coffee growers and other farmers have joined cooperatives that sell their products through Fair Trade channels instead of directly to a commercial producer. Not everyone is greeting the Fair Trade label with open arms. Several American coffee importers recently pulled out of Fair Trade, citing TransFair’s “corporate friendly” policies that allow large companies to use the Fair Trade logo in their marketing even if only a small amount of the company’s overall purchases are Fair Trade certified. Edmund LaMacchia, the national produce coordinator for Whole Foods, said Fair Trade is only one of many consumer choices. “Whole Foods has its own team of inspectors and has no plans to carry Fair Trade products”, Mr. LaMacchia said. “Our standards are higher than Fair Trade’s, actually.” Fair Trade is only one of several labels your bananas might be wearing this year. Another is that of the Rainforest Alliance, which certifies the use of sustainable agriculture methods. So far, though, Fair Trade is the biggest. A Fair Trade label by itself does not guarantee an organic product, but most Fair Trade bananas are also organic, Ms. Bourque said, because pesticides are usually too costly for the small farmers who grow them. If the bananas are organic, they will be labeled as such, and will probably be wearing a sticker to prove it. 1. Why are bananas wearing “Fair Trade Certified” stickers?A) It means bananas are the fashion victims of the produce section. B) It means bananas have got a new label.C) It means bananas with these stickers are available in the United States. D) It represents an international effort to help the third-world farmers. 2. What does Fair Trade do?A) It helps farmers sell their products for a higher profit. B) It appoints brokers and middlemen to deal with farmer cooperatives. C) It brings down the price of farmers’ goods. D) It sets up schools and health clinics for American farmers. 3. What was the original purpose of the Fair Trade movement? A) To cooperate with coffee growers and other farmers. B) To help coffee farmers as prices were collapsing. C) To prevent farmers from selling their products to commercial producers. D) To sell products through coffee growers and other farmers. 4. What can we infer from this passage? A) American coffee importers will never buy their products through Fair Trade channels.B) Fair Trade is the only label that bananas might be wearing this year. C) Not every consumer considers Fair Trade products the only choice. D) Whole Foods and the Rainforest Alliance are more influential than Fair Trade. 5. What is the best title for this passage? A) Helping the Third World: One Banana at a Time B) Consumers Face More Choices C) Fair Trade — the Best Sticker D) The Fair Trade Movement
1. D)。參見第一段“They represent the new front of an international effort to help first-world consumers improve the living standards of the third-world farmers who grow much of their food.”一句可知,F(xiàn)air Trade推出這一標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的目的是為了幫助第三世界GJ的果農(nóng),讓他們生產(chǎn)的香蕉更有競爭力、更有市場(chǎng)。 2. A)。參見第二段“It guarantees higher prices for the farmers’ goods and helps them set up schools and health clinics.”一句可知,F(xiàn)air Trade的作用是幫助農(nóng)民把他們生產(chǎn)的農(nóng)產(chǎn)品賣出個(gè)好價(jià)錢。 3. B)。參見第三段“The Fair Trade movement took root in Europe in the 1990’s as a way of bolstering coffee farmers as prices were collapsing.”一句可知,F(xiàn)air Trade成立于20世紀(jì)90年代的歐洲,它成立的最初目的是為了挽救種植咖啡的農(nóng)民,因?yàn)楫?dāng)時(shí)咖啡的價(jià)格下跌得很厲害。 4. C)。參見第四段“Not everyone is greeting the Fair Trade label with open arms.”一句可知,消費(fèi)者可以有不同的選擇,并不一定要買Fair Trade推薦的產(chǎn)品。 5. A)??v觀全文,本文的目的是向讀者推薦被Fair Trade認(rèn)可并貼有Fair Trade Certified標(biāo)簽的香蕉,推薦香蕉的最終目的還是為了幫助生活在第三世界GJ的香蕉種植者。
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