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53. Britain Accelerates[(accelerate):v.加快] toward Cleaner Future-with Wheat[n.小麦]. 依托小麦-英国加速迈向绿色未来. 　　　1. Wheat never used to get Charlie Goldsack excited. Hes got fields of the stuff[n.材料,东西] down on his farm, but as a cash[n.现金] crop there was one big problem: it didnt generate[v.产生] much cash. Rock bottom prices saw to that. 1、小麦从未让查利·戈德萨克兴奋过。虽然他的农场大片大片地种着这东西，但作为一种商品作物，它的一大缺陷就是创收有限。最低价在那儿决定着呢。 分析：used to do :过去常常做某事； stuff=材料（这里指小麦）；cash＝； generate＝产生； 2. But now, the farmer hopes his wheat might literally[adv.真正地] become the driving force of his 1,400-acre Friar Maine farm in southern England. 2、但现在，这位农场主希望小麦能够给他在南英格兰的1400英亩的费赖尔缅因农场带来活力。 分析：literal：字面的，literate:有文化的，识字的，literary: 文学的，literature:n.文学； 单词：literally＝真正； 3. Instead of heading to the bakery[n.面包店], Goldsacks harvest will now go to a nearby plant for conversion[n.转化] into bioethanol[n.生物酒精]-part of accelerating[(accelerate):v.加快] British efforts to introduce cleaner car fuel. 3、今后，戈德萨克所收获的小麦将不再送往面包房，而是供应给附近一家工厂生产生物酒精--这是英国加速引进清洁汽车燃料行动的一部分。 单词：conversion转化 accelerate＝加快； 4. For a lot of farms, it was barely[adv。几乎不] economic to grow wheat any more, he says. This is just what we need-a new market. Hopefully it can soak up[吸收] all the surplus[n.剩余] and raise prices. 4、“对许多农场来说，再种小麦几乎已经无利可图了，”他说，“这正是我们所需要的--一个新市场。但愿它能消化掉所有过剩的小麦，从而抬高小麦的价格。” 分析：soak up：吸收；barely＝几乎不能； economic＝经济的； surplus＝； 5. The simple arithmetic[n.算术] looks compelling[adj.令人服的]. Goldsacks roughly[粗略地] 250 acres could yield[v.生产] enough wheat to produce a million miles of car fuel. 5、这个简单的算法看上去挺有说服力：戈德萨克的大约250英亩小麦，就足以生产供一辆汽车行驶100万英里的燃油。 单词： compelling＝的； roughly＝略地； yield＝； 6. Extrapolate[推算] that across all of Britains farmland and you get enough bioethanol[n.生物酒精] to account for 5 percent of all fuel used annually by British motorists-a target[n.目标] the government wants hit by 2010. In a pleasing symmetry[n.对称], the amount of wheat required would be around 3 million tons, roughly equal to the excess[n.过剩] produced each year t