2015年英語四級長篇閱讀匹配練習(xí)題(6).docx

2015年英語四級長篇閱讀匹配練習(xí)題(6)2015年英語四級長篇閱讀匹配練習(xí)題(6)Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our meA.s?A.In December of 2012，three young men were living in a claustrophobic(患幽閉恐懼癥的)apartment in San Franciscos Tenderloin district，working on a technology startupThey had received a hundred and seventy thousand dollars from the incubator Y Combinatorbut their projecta plan to make inexpensive cell-phone towershad failedDown to their last seventy thousand dollarsthey resolved to keep trying out new software ideas until they ran out of moneyBut how to make the funds last?Rent was a sunk costSince they were working frantically,they already had no social lifeAs they examined their budget，one big problem remained：foodB.They had been living mostly on ramen，com dogs，and Costco frozen quesadillassupplemented by Vitamin C tablets，to stave ofr scurvy(壞血病)but the grocery bills were still adding upRob Rhinehart，one of the entrepreneurs，began to resent the fact that he had to eat at all“Food was such a large burden，”he told me recently“It was also the time and the hassleWe had a very small kitchen，and no dishwasher”He tried out his own version of“Super Size Me”living on McDonalds dollar meals and fivedollar pizzas from Little CaesarsBut after a weekhe said,“I felt like l was going to die”Kale was all the rageand cheapso next he tried an allkale dietBut that did not work，either“I was starving，”he saidC.Rhinehart，who is twenty-five，studied electrical engineering at Georgia Tech，and he began to consider food as an engineering problem“You need amino acids(氨基酸)and lipids，not milk itself,”he said“You need carbohydrates(碳水化合物)，not bread”Fruits and vegetables provide essential Vitamins and mineralsbut theyre“mostly water”He began to think that food was an inefficient way：of geRing what he needed to survive“It iust seemed like a system thats too complex and too expensive and too fragile，”he told meD.What if he went straight to the law chemical components?He took a break from experimenting with software and studied textbooks on nutrifional biochemistry and the Web sites ofthe F.DA,the USDA，and the Institute of MedicineEventually,Rhinehan compiled a list of thirty-five nutrients required for survivalThen，instead of heading to the grocery store，he ordered them ofr the Intemet-mostlyin powder or pill formand poured everything into a blenderwith some waterThe resulta slurry of chemicals，looked like gooey lemonadeThen，he told me，“I started living on it”E.Rhinehart called his potion Soylent，which，for most people，evokes the 1973 science-fiction film“Soylent Green”starring Charlton HestonThe movie is set in a dystopian future where，because ofoverpopulation and pollution，people live on mysterious wafers called Soylent GreenThe film ends with the ghastly revelation that Soylent Green is made from human fleshF.Rhineharts roommates were skepticalOne told me，“It seemed pretty weird”They kept shopping at CostcoAfter a month，Rhinehart published the results of his experiment in a blog post，titled“How I Stopped Eating Food”The post has a“Eureka!”toneThe chemical potion，Rhinehart reported，was“delicious!I felt like ld just had the best breakfast of my life”Drinking Soylent was saving him time and money：his food costs had dropped from four hundred and seventy dollars a month to fiftyAnd physically,he wrote，“I feel like the six million dollar mailMy physique has noticeably improved，my skin is clearer,my teeth whiter,my hair thicker and my dandruff gone”He concluded“I havent eaten a bite of food in thirty days，and its changed my lifc”In a fcw weeks，his blog post was at the top of Hacker Newsa water cooler for the tech industryReactions were polarized“RIP Rob，”a comment on Rhineharts blog readBut other people asked for his formula，which，in the spirit of the“open source”movement，he posted onlineG.One of Silicon Valleys cultural exports in the past ten years has been the concept of“l(fā)ife hacking”：devising tricks to streamline the obligations of daily lifethereby freeing yourself up for whateveryoud rather be doingRhineharts“future food”seemed a clever workaroundLifehackers everywherebegan to test it out，and then to make their own versionsSoon commenters on Reddit were sparring about the appropriate dose of calcium-magnesium powderAtier three months，Rhinehart said，he realized that his mixture had the makings of a company：“It provided more value to my life than any app”He and his roommates put aside their software ideasand got into the syntheticfood businessH. To attract funding，Rhinehart and his roommates turned to the Internet：they set up a crowd-funding campaign in which people could receive a weeks supply of manufactured Soylent for sixty-five dollarsThey started with a fundraising goal of a hundred thousand dollars，which they hoped to raise in a monthBut 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 AmericaIn addition to the crowdfunding money,its production was financed by Silicon Valley venture capitalists，including Y Combinator and the bluechip investment firm Andreessen Horowitz， which contributed a million dollarsI. Soylent has been heralded by the press as“the end of food，”which is a somewhat bleak prospectIt conjares up visions of a world devoid of pizza parlors and taco standsour kitchens stocked with beige powder instead of banana bread，our spaghetti nights and ice-cream socials replaced by evenings sipping sludgeJ.But，Rhinehart says，thats not exactly his vision“Most of peoples meals are forgotten，”he told meHe imagines that，in the future，“well see a separation between our meals for utility and function，and our meals for experience and socialization”Soylent isnt coming for our Sunday potlucksIts coming for our frozen quesadillas46What will be the consequence of his direct study of raw chemical components?47What we really need for survival is the nutritional elements of food instead of the food itself48The concept of life hacking is to encourage people to live reasonably and to be yourself49Soylent is not prepared for our Sunday potlucks，but an alternative options for junk food50Rent is definitely a cost you paid without the possibility of regain51I feel that I have become a man who could not be beRer than before in physical condition52Soylent has predicted the bleak future of food，the end of food53Food is troublemaking and timeconsuming54Last week，the first batch of commercial Soylent was delivered to other parts of the world55The film is on the background of a visionally terrible future，in which people live by Soylent owing to the overpopulation and pollution46what will be the consequence of his direct study of raw chemical components?如果他直接研究原材料的化學(xué)成分又會是什么結(jié)果呢?47What we really need for survival is the nutritional elements of food instead of the food itself人們真正需要的不是食物本身，而是食物能帶給我們的營養(yǎng)成分。48The concept of life hacking is to encourage people to live reasonably and to be yourself生活黑客的概念鼓勵人們合理生活、勇做自