【2014】高考英语阅读理解巩固精品题练习(37)及答案

2014高考英语阅读理解巩固练习精品题（37）及答案

【江苏省常州市北郊高级中学2013模拟】C

FROM lunch at the school canteen to the delicious dinner cooked by your mother, it’s easy to find pork, an important ingredient in Chinese cooking.

While enjoying the dishes, however, have you ever thought about how many government agencies are involved in ensuring the quality of the meat on your table?

Let’s list them.

The Agriculture Ministry supervises (监管) farmers raising pigs. The Commerce Ministry supervises those slaughtering (屠宰) them. When the pork is made into sausage, it is the responsibility of the quality supervision and inspection department to supervise production. When it is then sold in supermarkets, the department of industry and commerce steps in. When it enters restaurants, the task goes to the State Food and Drug Administration. And if food safety crimes occur, it is the police’s duty to find the criminals.

This overlapping (重叠) management often leads to the repetition of work and supervision blind spots, says Ma Kai, state councilor. Consumers may be confused about which government department they should go to when a quality problem involving pork occurs.

But the confusion will be soon clarified thanks to a government restructuring plan released on March 10 during the National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. According to the plan, a new general administration will be established and will be responsible for a unified supervision of food and drug safety and quality throughout the process of production, circulation and consumption.

So, all supervision before pigs are slaughtered will still be covered by the Ministry of Agriculture, but the duties after that fall on the new administration – the General Administration of Food and Drugs.

On the whole, the reform cuts the total number of government ministry level bodies from 27 to 25, while reorganizing certain other government agencies and departments. The plan is aimed at improving efficiency, China Daily reported.