答案：C

　　B

　　An environmental group called the Food Commission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sale of bottled water from Japan. The water it angrily argues in public has traveled 10000 "food_miles" before it reaches Western customers. "Transporting water halfway across the world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty of water in the UK." It is also worrying that we are wasting our fuel by buying prawns (对虾) from Indonesia (7000 food miles) and carrots from South Africa (5900 food miles)．

　　 Counting the number of miles traveled by a product is a strange way of trying to tell the true situation of the environmental damage done by an industry. Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energyefficient (高能效的). It should be noted that a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck to a farmers' market does not necessarily use less fuel on its journey than a similar product transported hundreds of miles by sea. Besides the idea of "food miles" ignores the amount of fuel used in the production. It is possible to cut down your "food miles" by buying tomatoes grown in Britain rather than those grown in Ghana; the difference is that the British ones will have been raised in heated greenhouses and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun.

　　 What the idea of "food miles" does provide however is the chance to cut our Third World countries from First World food markets. The number of miles traveled by our food should as I see it be regarded as a sign of the success of the global (全球的) trade system not a sign of damage to the environment.

　　5．The Food Commission is angry because it thinks that ________.

　　A．UK wastes a lot of money importing food products

　　B．some imported goods cause environmental damage

　　C．growing certain vegetables damages the environment

　　D．people waste energy buying food from other countries

　　解析：由第一段"It is also worrying that...from South Africa."可知。

　　答案：D

6．The phrase "food miles" in the passage refers to the distance ________.