【推荐1】This supermarket sells only wasted food

Food waste is a big deal: According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, 28 percent of the world’s agriculture area is used to produce food that _________ goes to waste each year. But now, a new supermarket _________ only with wasted food is tackling the problem head-on.

The project is an expansion of British non-profit the Real Junk Food Project. The group has long collected wasted food for pay-as-you-can cafes around the world, but its supermarket takes the concept one step _________. The market takes food that’s donated by local restaurants and grocery stores and puts it on _________ to sell to customers who pay what they can.

As is reported, the store is already serving as a _________ for families who are down on their luck. It’s kind of like food pantry(食品分发处), but has no _________ on who gets the food. And the concept is not a new one: as is written in another report this month, the idea has taken _________ in Denmark, too, due to a government effort to reduce the country’s amount of wasted food.

Last year, the USDA launched its first-ever food waste reduction goal, _________ to reduce the amount of wasted food by 50 percent by 2030. The agency estimates that cutting just 15 percent of this waste in the United States would provide enough food for more than 25 million Americans per year. And hunger isn’t the _________ reason to reduce food waste. Wasted food has a carbon dioxide impact ____________ to the output of one in four cars on the road worldwide and ____________ a quarter of the world’s freshwater and 300 million barrels of oil each year.

So why do grocery stores produce all the wasted food? The USDA notes that damaged packaging products that haven’t been stored properly, holiday specialties that are never purchased, overstocked foods and odd-looking foods____________ for the waste.

Food waste supermarkets aren’t the only ____________ in the fight against waste: From activists working to improve the reputation of ____________ fruits and vegetables to craft beers made of wasted products like no longer fresh bread and grapefruit, there are plenty of creative ways to and eat food that would ____________ be thrown out. Maybe it’s time to bring the food waste supermarket concept to the United States-a delicious addition to the variety of ways not to trash perfectly good meals.

【推荐3】Many of the world’s most brilliant scientific minds were also fantastically weird. From Pythagoras’outright ban on beans to Benjamin Franklin’s naked ‘air baths’, the path to greatness is paved with some truly _______ habits. Scientists are increasingly realizing that intelligence is less about genetic luck than we tend to think. According to the latest review of the evidence, around 40% of what distinguishes the brainiacs from the blockheads in adulthood is _______ . Like it or not, our daily habits have a powerful influence on our brains, shaping their structure and changing the way we think.

Of all history’s great minds, arguably the master of combining genius with unusual habits was Albert Einstein. So what better person to study for clues to _______ behaviors to try ourselves? Could there be any benefits in following Einstein’s sleep, diet, and even _______ choices?

GOOD SLEEP

It’s common knowledge that sleep is good for your brain, and Einstein took this advice more seriously than most. He reportedly slept for at least 10 hours per day. But can you really sleep your way to a _______ mind?

Many of the most radical breakthroughs in human history, including the periodic table and Einstein’s theory of special relativity, have supposedly occurred while their discoverer was _______ . The latter came to Einstein while he was dreaming about cows being electrocuted.

DAILY WALK

Besides, Einstein’s daily walk was sacred to him. While he was working at Princeton University, New Jersey, he’d walk the mile and a half journey there and back. He followed in the footsteps of other _______ walkers, including Darwin, who went for three 45minute walks every day. These short walks weren’t just for _______ . There’s plenty of evidence that walking can boost memory, creativity and problem-solving.

EATING SPAGHETTI

So what do geniuses eat? Alas, it’s not clear what _______ Einstein’s extraordinary mind, though the Internet somewhat dubiously claims it was spaghetti.

It’s well known that the brain is a food-guzzling greedy guts, consuming 20%of the body’s energy though it only __________ 2% of its weight. Just like the rest of the body, the brain prefers to snack on simple sugars, which can give the brain a valuable boost, but unfortunately this doesn’t mean eating spaghetti __________ is a good idea.

NO SOCKS

No list of Einstein’s eccentricities would be complete without a mention of his __________ of socks. “When I was young,” he wrote in a letter to his cousin-and later, wife-Elsa, “I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.”

__________ , there haven’t been any studies looking directly at the impact of going sockless, but changing into casual clothing, __________ a more formal outfit, has been linked to poor performance on tests of abstract thinking.

And what better way to end that with some advice from the man himself. “The important thing is not to stop __________ . Curiosity has its own reason for existing,” he told LIFE magazine in 1955.