【推荐1】Haynes,who still lives in Ladbroke Grove,now runs breakfast clubs and free lunches in Paddington. Every Wednesday, Haynes _______ a full English breakfast for the 50-strong group. On Saturdays, it’s a three-course lunch.

“I do home-made soup,a cooked dinner with meat and two vegs and pudding.” she says. On Thursdays, she offers a food bag with _______ that people can take home and _______ themselves. But if people are _______ or can’t cook,she’ll make them ready-meals and sandwiches. She adds: “My whole life is _______ by food. In north Paddington, people _______ me in their phone book as ‘Jacqui dinner lady’.”

“Demand has only _______. When universsal credit was introduced I had to buy two extra fridges to _______ the demand,” Haynes says. When the pandemic began,she had to purchase an extra freezer because “we needed more _______. Some people were ________to come out of the house,so we had to make extra ________.” She is concerned about the rising ________ of living.

“Food is getting so expensive,” says Haynes. “People are paying ￡7 a day ________ for gas on their meters. And that’s going to go up when it gets ________ .” On average,Haynes ________ about 50 people a day,but she ________ to see that rise come in winter.

Whatever Haynes does. she does it ________. “I believe it is not without any reward. You’ll get back ten times what you ________,” she says. In addition to her work at the food bank,she ________ a support service in North Kensington,offering people help with legal issues,advocacy and school appeals,and she is ________ involved in the post-Grenfell Tower recovery effort.

【推荐2】Processed foods like chips, soda and frozen pizzas are full of salt, sugar and fat. Now scientists are trying to understand if there is something else about such foods that may be bad for humans. Scientists have already linked low-cost, ________ foods to rising obesity rates around the world. Three recent studies offer more ________ into how our increasingly industrialized food supply may be affecting our health.

What does processed food mean?

The researchers created a system that ________ foods into four groups. The system says highly processed foods are made ________ of industrialized materials and additives. Sodas, packaged cookies, instant noodles and chicken nuggets are some examples of highly processed foods. But also included are products that can ________ healthy, such as morning cereals, energy bars and some kinds of yogurt.

What’s wrong with processed foods?

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health conducted a four-week study involving 20 people. They found that people eat about 500 more calories a day when ________ mostly processed foods. That is compared with when the   ________ subjects were given less processed foods. The researchers permitted the 20 participants to eat as much or as little as they wanted. They were taken to a medical center so their health and behavior could be ________.

In another study, researchers in France found people who ate more processed foods were more likely to have heart disease. ________, a similar study in Spain linked eating more processed foods to a higher risk of death in general.

What is it about processed foods?

When given less processed foods, people in the study ________ more of a hormone that controls hunger, and less of a hormone that causes hunger. The reason for the ________ is not clear. The scientists also found that people ate processed foods more quickly.

Kevin Hall is one of the researchers who led the study. He told the AP that processed foods are usually softer and easier to chew and swallow. Hall noted the source of nutrients might ________. For example, fiber from whole fruits and vegetables may be better for making people feel ________ than fiber added to packaged foods such as energy bars and yogurt.

What should you eat?

Avoiding processed foods can be hard, ________ for people with limited time and money. Processed foods can also take many forms. In addition, companies continually ________ products to make them seem healthier. The newest studies may provide more reasons to avoid processed foods. But, they also call attention to the difficulty of coming up with ways to do that.

【推荐1】Directions: Foreach blank in the following passage are four words or phrases marked A. B. Cand D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

Research has shown that two-thirds of human conversation is taken up not with discussion of the cultural or political problems of the day, not heated debates about films we've just watched or books we've just finished reading, but plain and simple_______.

Language isour greatest treasure as a species, and what do we _______ do with it? Wegossip. About others' behaviour and private lives, such as who's doing what with whom, who's in and who's out——and why; how to deal with difficult_______ situations involving children, lovers, and colleagues.

So why are we keen on gossiping? Are we just natural _______, of   both time and words? Or do we talk a lot about nothing in particular simply to avoid facing up to the really important issues of life? It's not the case according to Professor Robin Dunbar. In fact, in his latest book, Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution ofLanguage, the psychologist says gossip is one of these really_______issues.

Dunbar _______the traditional view that language was developed by the men at the early stageof social development in order to organize their manly hunting activities more effectively, or even to promote the exchange of poetic stories about their origins and the supernatural. Instead he suggests that language evolved among women. We don't spend two-thirds of our time gossiping just because we can talk, argues Dunbar —_______, he goes on to say, language evolved specifically to allow us to gossip.

Dunbar arrived at his cheery theory by studying the _______ of the higher primates like monkeys. By means of grooming——cleaning the fur by brushing it,monkeys form groups with other individuals on whom they can rely for support in the event of some kind of conflict within the group or_______ from outside it.

As we human beings evolve from a particular branch of the primate family, Dunbar ________that at one time in our history we did much the same. Grouping together made sense because the bigger the group, the greater the ________ it provided; on the other hand, the bigger the group, the greater the stresses of living close to others. Grooming helped to ________ the pressure and calm everybody down.

But as the groups got bigger and bigger, the amount of time spent in grooming activities also had to be ________ to maintain its effectiveness. Clearly, a more ________kind of grooming was needed, and thus language evolved as a kind of vocalgrooming which allowed humans to develop relationship with ever-larger groups by exchanging information over a wider network of individuals than would be possible by one-to-one ________ contact.