2026年06月四级第1套仔细阅读 Passage 1 原文翻译及答案解析

Is organic food worth the higher price? It's the classic grocery store dilemma. On the one hand, your family dinner table deserves only the best. On the other hand, your wallet can only stretch so far.

有机食品值得为更高的价格买单吗？这是超市里经典的两难困境。一方面，你家的餐桌理应只配得上最好的食物；另一方面，你的钱包也只能承受得起有限的开销。

Whether or not to buy organic is a personal decision, said Mike von Massow, professor of Food Agriculture.

食品农业学教授 Mike von Massow 说，是否购买有机食品是个人的决定。

Science won't give a clear-cut answer to the question of whether organic food is "better." There are often trade-offs (权衡) and answers become less definitive depending on the product under consideration.

对于有机食品是否"更好"这个问题，科学并不会给出明确的答案。这其中往往存在权衡取舍，而且答案会因所考量的具体产品不同而变得不那么确定。

One thing is definitive: Organic and conventionally grown food are equally nutritious. From a nutrition point of view, there is no difference between organic and traditionally grown products.

有一点是确定的：有机食品与常规种植的食品营养价值相同。从营养角度来看，有机产品与传统种植的产品之间没有区别。

Organic products don't necessarily have fewer pesticides (杀虫剂)—in fact, they may have more. There is also no big difference between organic and non-organic products from a food-safety perspective. Even organic growers use pesticides. Testing shows little if any pesticide remains on conventionally grown products.

有机产品所含的杀虫剂未必更少——事实上可能更多。从食品安全的角度看，有机与非有机产品之间也没有太大差别。即便是有机种植者也使用杀虫剂。检测显示，常规种植的产品上几乎没有残留的杀虫剂。

In fact, organic farmers often use larger quantities of pesticide because they can only use the natural variety of insect-killers. Chemical pesticides generally kill a much wider range of pests (害虫) than any single natural pesticide.

事实上，有机农户往往使用更大量的杀虫剂，因为他们只能使用天然种类的杀虫剂。相比任何单一的天然杀虫剂，化学杀虫剂通常能杀灭范围更广的害虫。

The use of animal waste in organic agriculture can also be a factor in the spread of bacteria like E. coli and salmonella. Over the past 10 years, Canada has seen more food-safety recalls for organic products, proportionally, than for conventional products.

有机农业中使用动物粪便，也可能成为大肠杆菌、沙门氏菌等细菌传播的一个因素。在过去10年里，按比例计算，加拿大因有机产品发生的食品安全召回比常规产品更多。

On the whole, organic agriculture may have a smaller environmental footprint. That's mostly because the risk of groundwater contamination from organic farming is lower. Organic farmers never used neonics, the controversial pesticides that have been linked to shrinking bee populations worldwide.

总体而言，有机农业对环境的影响可能更小。这主要是因为有机耕作造成地下水污染的风险更低。有机农户从不使用新烟碱类杀虫剂——这种有争议的杀虫剂被认为与全球蜜蜂数量减少有关。

Traditional agriculture has been making "dramatic improvements" to reduce its impact on the environment. It isn't a black-and-white picture, though.

传统农业一直在做出"巨大的改进"以减少对环境的影响。不过，这并非一个非黑即白的问题。

Organic farming is much less efficient when it comes to land use, although yields vary considerably depending on the crop. On the other hand, advocates of organic farming argue yields and efficiency could be significantly improved if the food industry devoted as much research and money to organic farming as it does conventional agriculture.

在土地利用方面，有机耕作的效率要低得多，尽管产量会因作物不同而有很大差异。另一方面，有机耕作的支持者认为，如果食品行业能像投入常规农业那样，向有机耕作投入同等的研究和资金，其产量和效率是能够显著提高的。