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III.Discourse Organization. (2% x 5)      Once upon a time, food was about where you came from. (31)_______. Food has always been expressive of identity, but today those identities are more flexible and fluid; they change over time, and respond to different pressures. Some aspects of this are ridiculous: the pickle craze, the báhn-mì boom, the ramps revolution, compulsory kale. Is northern Thai still hot? Has offal gone away yet? Is Copenhagen over? The intersection of food and fashion is silly, just as the intersection of fashion and anything else is silly. Underlying it, however, is that sense of food as an expression of an identity that’s defined, in some crucial sense, by conscious choice. (32)_______. The apparent silliness and superficiality of food fashions and trends touches on something deep: our ability to choose who we want to be.    Most of the energy that we put into our thinking about food, I realized, isn’t about food; it’s about anxiety. Food makes us anxious. The infinite range of choices and possible self-expressions means that there are so many ways to go wrong. You can make people ill, and you can make yourself look absurd. People feel judged by their food choices, and they are right to feel that, because they are.    The other thing that changed during those twenty years has to do with ethics. (33) _______. That’s not true anymore. Food is now politics and ethics as much as it is sustenance. People feel pressure to shop and eat responsibly, healthfully, sustainably. At least, that’s the impression you get from what’s written and said about food culture—that it’s a form of surrogate politics. To some, it’s not even surrogate politics; it’s the real deal, politics at its most urgent and consequential. Alice Waters presents the case beautifully: “Eating is a political act, but in the way the ancient Greeks used the word ‘political’—not just to mean having to do with voting in an election, but to mean ‘of, or pertaining to, all our interactions with other people’—from the family to the school, to the neighborhood, the nation, and the world. (34) _______. The right choice saves the world.”    Maybe these sentiments wouldn’t strike a chord in Ukraine or Liberia or the territories under the control of the Islamic State, but there’s a moving, warming, generous idea here—that by taking loving care when we purchase summer corn, heirloom tomatoes, organically fed and outdoor-reared chicken, we’re doing something that’s charged with political significance. (35) _______. We’re doing something that “matters at every level.” 
(A) Not so long ago, food was food. 
(B) For most people throughout history, that wasn’t true. 
(C) With these choices, the thought is that we’re doing our humble little bit to save the world.
(D) Every single choice we make about food matters, at every level. 
(E) Now, for many of us, it is about where we want to go—about who we want to be, how we choose to live.
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參考答案

答案：E
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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