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19-11-6【地道美语121】The price of pork goes up 猪肉涨价了…了解一下?

最近人们热议着猪肉涨价了…去年4月以来,受“猪周期”下行、非洲猪瘟疫情冲击,中国生猪产能持续下滑,导致今年猪肉供应相对偏紧,价格上涨较快。不过在市场机制和国家迅速应对的利好政策支持下,猪肉养殖已密集展开,中国老百姓依然能吃上肉吃好肉。【地道美语】生活篇 The price of pork了解关心肉价上涨

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 dialogue 1

Jingjing:  Hey Mark, what's that you're--------?

Mark:  It's a kind of--------------.

Jingjing:  Yeah, but as you came in, I saw you take it out of ------. Is it -----------?

Mark:  No, it was baked almost ---------.  Yeah, here's the date--------------: December, 2018.

Jingjing:  It looks---------.  Does it have-----------init?

Mark:  Nope.  Just a little---------.  I have to eat it ---------------------after opening the pack.

Jingjing:  Hmm.  Cool idea.

Mark:  Yeah, I've --------- this bread, andwill probably have --------, with----------- discounts.

Jingjing:  Let me------- a piece.  I might ----------.  I'mnot a big---------------- though.

Mark:  Here.  Take this piece.  I haven't-------------------------yet.

Jingjing:  Uh, it tastes alright.  But I'm --------- Thanks for letting me try it, though.  Hey, speaking of ---------------,-----------------------

Mark:  You mean like --------------------now?

Jingjing:  Exactly.  African swine-------------------last year,and lots of countries --------------------

Mark:  I know a little about that.

Jingjing:  Well, the Commerce Ministry has now----------on themarket, to keep prices from going ---------------.  So, China isn't havingtoo much ------------------

Mark:  Big countries like China need to hav-------------

Jingjing:  Yeah, Pork always gets------------ when I try to dothat.  So it's pretty impressive, what the Commerce Ministry has done.

Mark:  You said it, Jingjing.

 

 

dialogue 2

Jingjing:  Mark, would you like to hear more about the-------------?

Mark:  Sure.  I don't know much about it.

Jingjing:  Do you know how long it takes--------- to mature?

Mark:  Let me guess: 2 years?

Jingjing:  No. ------------------.  But that still means the ----------------

Mark:  I understand a lot of----------------  So, you're sayingit might still take years for -------------, right?

Jingjing:  That's right.  With depleted breeding stock, -------------aslong as demand remains the -------------.

Mark:  Well, that's basi---------------.  What's yourguess—three years or so of-----------?

Jingjing:  That's ----------guess.  It's going to be ----------. And there are many ----------.

Mark:  I heard a lot of----------------, while big ones have ------------------.

Jingjing:  That's been the---------------now.  This-----just made it more ------------------------

Mark:  Well, that sounds interesting.  It also sounds likecompanies are -------------------

Jingjing:  It's just---------to operate a few-------------------

Mark:  Yeah, I guess so.  And a big company could ------------indifferent regions.  That way, they'd be----------------------

Jingjing:  Let's hope so.  Anyway, there's always------ smallfarms, even when it comes to pork --------------

Mark:  Yeah, -------------

Jingjing:  Well, it might grow,---------

Mark: ----------------

 

 

new words and phrases

 

from dialogue 1

munch on (something) – to eat

preservatives – chemicals addedto food, to prevent it from rotting or spoiling

stockpile - to keep a very large amount of something, for future use

price hike – a sudden increase in prices

freezer burn – when items in the freezer become dry from being in there too long

 

 

from dialogue 2

decline – when something goes down (decreases), typically over a long period oftime

sow – a female pig

livestock – farm animals

deplete – to cause something to run out (decrease in number)

breeding stock – animals kept onfarms for reproduction

industry trend – a changehappening over time, in a type of business
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