2016年12月英语四级阅读长篇阅读练习(三)

　　H. To attract funding，Rhinehart and his roommates turned to the Internet：they set up a crowd-funding campaign in which people could receive a week’s supply of manufactured Soylent for sixty-five dollars.They started with a fund.raising goal of a hundred thousand dollars，which they hoped to raise in a month.But when thev opened up to donations，RhinehaIt says，“we got that in two hours.”Last week，the first thirty thousand units of commercially made Soylent were shipped out to customers across America.In addition to the crowd.funding money,its production was financed by Silicon Valley venture capitalists，including Y Combinator and the blue.chip investment firm Andreessen Horowitz， which contributed a million dollars.

　　I. Soylent has been heralded by the press as“the end of food，”which is a somewhat bleak prospect.It conjares up visions of a world devoid of pizza parlors and taco stands——our kitchens stocked with beige powder instead of banana bread，our spaghetti nights and ice-cream socials replaced by evenings sipping sludge.

　　J.But，Rhinehart says，that’s not exactly his vision.“Most of people’s meals are forgotten，”he told me.He imagines that，in the future，“we’ll see a separation between our meals for utility and function，and our meals for experience and socialization.”Soylent isn’t coming for our Sunday potlucks.It’s coming for our frozen quesadillas.

　　46.What will be the consequence of his direct study of raw chemical components?

　　47.What we really need for survival is the nutritional elements of food instead of the food itself.

　　48.The concept of life hacking is to encourage people to live reasonably and to be yourself.

　　49.Soylent is not prepared for our Sunday potlucks，but an alternative options for junk food.

　　50.Rent is definitely a cost you paid without the possibility of regain.

　　51.I feel that I have become a man who could not be beRer than before in physical condition.

　　52.Soylent has predicted the bleak future of food，the end of food.

　　53.Food is trouble.making and time.consuming.

　　54.Last week，the first batch of commercial Soylent was delivered to other parts of the world.

　　55.The film is on the background of a visionally terrible future，in which people live by Soylent owing to the overpopulation and pollution.

　　46.what will be the consequence of his direct study of raw chemical components?如果他直接研究原材料的化学成分又会是什么结果呢?

　　47.What we really need for survival is the nutritional elements of food instead of the food itself.人们真正需要的不是食物本身，而是食物能带给我们的营养成分。

　　48.The concept of life hacking is to encourage people to live reasonably and to be yourself.生活黑客的概念鼓励人们合理生活、勇做自己。

　　49.Soylent is not prepared for our Sunday potlucks，but an alternative options for junk food.Soylent不是为我们的周末聚餐而准备的，而是垃圾食品的备选项。

　　50.Rent is definitely a cost you paid without the possibility ofregain.租金的确是一项支付了就没法再获得的支出。

　　51.I feel that I have become a man who could not be better than before in physical condition.我觉得我的身体状况比起以前来，好得不能再好了。

　　52.Soylent has predicted the bleak future offood，the end offood.Soylent预示着食物的未来不容乐观，甚至是食物的终结　。

　　53.Food is trouble.making and time.consuming.食物很麻烦和费时。

　　54.Last week，the first batch of commercial Soylent was delivered to other parts of the world.上周，第一批投入商用的Soylent已经被运往国外。

　　55.The film is on the background of a visionally terrible future，in which people live by Soylent owing to the overpopulation and pollution.这部电影以一个想象的悲惨未来为背景，由于人口过多和环境污染，在未来世界里，人们只能依靠Soylent为生。