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获取今日课堂完整文本,请关注《英语PK台》公众微信号:英语PK台关注主持人京晶个人微信:goingforgold2018参与语音互动(验证注明添加原因)临时疑问可咨询新浪微博: @京晶am774 @英语PK台Dialogue : (课堂全文本于微信公众号【英语PK台】课后发送,参与直播互动中译英练习需加京晶微信goingforgold2018 拉入群dialogue 1Jingjing: Mark, have you heard about the new cellular meat?Mark: Huh? ---------------mobile phone?Jingjing: No, it's a technology -----we can eat, without having to get it fromanimals.Mark: Ohyeah, I have heard about that. ----------a breakthrough, right?Jingjing: Idon't know if it's anywhere near ready to be put on the market. But I saw a video made by a -----------pieces of beef steak.Mark: I'mnot clear, is that synthetic meat or was it really grown -----------?Jingjing: Itwas grown from natural cells.Mark: That'spretty cool! ------------------------------Jingjing: Right, a lot of people go vegetarian, or even vegan,to avoid all the cruelty involved in the meat industry.Mark: Irespect that. ------------leather wallets and shoes?Jingjing: Hmm,----------- out of our lives. But I read somewhere that 60% ofthe biomass of mammals is livestock.Mark: Wecould definitely------------. This cellular meat might be a greatalternative.Jingjing: Right. ------- three to five times its weight in vegetables andgrain and finally get meat, we could grow the meat-------------.Mark: Let'shope the day comes soon.Jingjing: Yeah,--------------------- this issue in the news.dialogue 2Jingjing: Mark, what do you think about the food of the future?Mark: Thanks----------tothat video. They tried to make cellular meat look quite luxurious. But I think it's more ----------- baloney than filet mignon.Jingjing: That might be. ----------------living animals?Mark: Whatever tastes good, I'll eat—especially if there's no killing involved.Jingjing: Haha. Do you consider yourself to be a conscientiousconsumer?Mark: I'dlike to think so. ------------- and buy only the things I need—and the samegoes for food.Jingjing: Right. ------------------you don't leave much on your plate.Mark: It'sgood to know what impacts---------- have on the environment. That's why Idon't eat much beef.Jingjing: -------------------Ithought Americans liked it best.Mark: I likeit plenty, and can't pass up a burger once in a while. --------produce a kilogram of beef than it---------of pork or chicken. Also, the beefindustry puts out a huge amount of greenhouse gas.Jingjing: Oh, yeah. I was reading ---------fish farming is also a hugeproducer of greenhouse gas.Mark: Really? How does that happen?Jingjing: Well, the fish are all close together in small ponds. ---------, and verylittle oxygen. -----------------methane rise to the air.Mark: Well,let's hope, in the future, most meat ------------land can be used for wildanimals.Jingjing: Yeah. I'd give up today's meat to have ----------wild once in awhile.Mark: Samehere.new words andphrasesfrom dialogue 1breakthrough a newdiscovery or way of making or selling something, a new accomplishment that cannow be repeatedput (sth) on themarket sellsomething to the public for the first timesynthetic madefrom chemicals rather than natural materialsvegetarian aperson who doesn't eat any meatvegan aperson who doesn't eat any animal products (including milk and eggs)livestock animalskept on farmsfrom dialogue 2conscientiousconsumer aperson who buys only the things that are less harmful to the worldpass up missthe chance to havegreenhouse gas CO2,methane, and other gases that contribute to global warming (aka the greenhouseeffect)
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