GRE阅读练习：专为工作狂打造可以喝的午餐.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：专为工作狂打造可以喝的午餐 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：专为工作狂打造可以喝的午餐 GRE考试精品课程指导  A startup called Soylent wants to change the way people consume calories.  成立不久的Soylent绿色食品生产公司想要改变人们消耗卡路里的方式。  “One should eat to live, not live to eat,” wrote Moliere, the French comedic playwright.  法国喜剧作家莫里哀曾写过“人应为生而食，不应为食而生”。  Some workaholic entrepreneurs have taken him at his word.  一些企业家工作狂都已信奉他这句话。  Soylent, a two-year-old startup, is trying to save consumers time and money by selling them a healthy, cheap “meal” that they can drink.  Soylent是一家成立了两年的小公司，它向消费者销售健康便宜并且能喝下去的“饭”，以此来节省消费者的时间和金钱。  Each vegetarian portion has only around 400 calories, costs around $3 and boasts of being as nutritious as, and more environmentally-friendly than, processed food and meat.  每种素食成分的热量大概只有400卡路里，售价3美元左右，和加工过的食品和肉类一样富含营养而且更加环保。  Soylent has found a place among American workaholics who resent the cost and hassle of preparing regular meals.  Soylent在那些因费钱费力而不喜欢准备正餐的美国工作狂中找到了销路。  This is especially true in Silicon Valley, home of many “early-adopter” engineers too consumed with coding the future to break from work.  这在“早期接受者”工程师之家的硅谷更是如此。工程师们过度忙于给未来编码而没有时间休息。  Their bad diets can damage their health.  不健康的饮食会毁坏他们的健康。  Several years ago Sam Altman, an entrepreneur who is now president of Y Combinator, a startup boot camp, was so cost-conscious and focused on building his first company, Loopt, that for weeks he ate only ramen noodles and coffee ice cream, until he developed scurvy.  时任Y联合者(Y Combinator，成立不久的创业孵化营公司)总裁的企业家山姆·阿尔特曼几年前专注于成立自己的第 一家公司Loopt，他非常有成本节约意识，以至于连续几周只吃拉面和咖啡冰淇淋，直到他得了坏血病。  He later became an investor in Soylent.  后来，他成为了Soylent的投资人。  At first the product was sold as a powder, but even that was a hassle for some consumers, soon September 9th it started shipping version 2.0, which comes already mixed and bottled.  起初，Soylent的产品是以粉末状销售的，但即便这样，对一些消费者来说还是