Massimo Bottura is a widely celebrated cook. A restaurant he opened 27 years ago in Italy has twice been named the best in the world. Today, Bottura’s cooking empire spreads from Dubai, in the Middle East, to Beverly Hills, California.
At Refettorio Ambrosiano, the menu changes daily, depending on what comes with the morning’s delivery. By dinner, these supermarket wastes have been transformed (转化). The 100 or so diner — refugees (难民), the homeless, and the unemployed — enjoy the meal with obvious pleasure. Meals of charge for people in need. Bottura’s Refettorios are not restaurants — they’re actually soup kitchens (施食处). But Bottura would not call them that. He thinks of them as places that shine a light on the dignity of their guests while focusing attention on the food-waste problem.
Bottura came up with the idea of Refettorio Ambrosiano in 2015. He wanted to invite the world’s best cooks to cook with him for the city’s homeless and turned an abandoned theater into a dining room for people in need.
Turning basic materials into delicious meals in Bottura’s magic. He says his grandmother taught him how to make “the original no-waste kitchen”. Cooks at Bottura’s restaurants learn his approach to cooking. But they also learn about his belief in making a difference in people’s lives. “Everybody has the ability to contribute to positive change. It starts with all of us, in our own kitchens,” Bottura says. It starts by looking at an old carrot or a broken piece of bread and catching a shine of gold.
“The are 8 billion people on Earth. We produce enough food for 12 billion people,” Massimo Bottura says. “Every year, more than a billion tons of food ends up wasted. As a result, 820 million people don’t have enough to eat. And food waste is responsible for 10% of global greenhouse emissions (排放).”
1. Where do the Refettorios’ meal materials come from？| A．Social contribution. | B．Supermarket wastes. |
| C．Government supply. | D．Products made by themselves. |
| A．ignore the need of | B．focus on the right of |
| C．show respect for | D．get praises from |
| A．To create the most popular kitchen. | B．To teach his cooking magic. |
| C．To enlarge his cooking empire. | D．To spread his idea of saving food. |
| A．The waste of food. | B．Global greenhouse emissions. |
| C．Natural disasters. | D．The increasing world population. |
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【推荐1】Last year, the largest wildfire in California history killed 31 people and removed thousands. Meanwhile, Hurricane Laura was bearing down on Louisiana, causing 16 U. S. deaths and up to $ 12 billion in damages. Twenty years ago, crises like these could have been considered as “natural”. Thanks to climate change, this is no longer the case. We may need a new term to call them “man-made natural disasters”.
People now play a determining role on the planet. By cutting down forests and building cities, we’ve transformed half of the ice-free land. By endless digging and transportation, we move more earth than all the rivers and streams. People now outweigh wild mammals by a rate of more than 8 to 1. As people increasingly destroy other animals’ habitats and move species around the world, outbreaks of disasters and novel diseases become more common.
What’s to be done? According to one school of thought, the best way to deal with human involvement in the natural world is to involve better. Old technologies trapped us into this situation; new ones will help us out. Another school, however, argues that the new world-changing technologies are likely to have the same effect as the old ones, only with higher risks. For example, the solar geoengineering, which is supposed to provide the entire planet with a kind of sunshade, has been criticized as “a broad highway to hell” since unexpected problems could arise.
As a reporter on climate change, I feel pulled in both directions. I’ve interviewed scores of scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs over the past two decades, and I’m continually carried away by how smart humans are as a species. But then the wind blows in smoke from 3,000 miles away, and Tm reminded of how dangerous we are as well. The choice we face now is not whether to change the world; that decision unfortunately has been made. The decision going forward is how we are going to change it.
1. What do the numbers in Paragraph 2 indicate?| A．The slow increase of the wild animals. | B．The influential role of humans on the earth. |
| C．The richness of natural resources in the world. | D．The reason behind the spread of new diseases. |
| A．The new techniques will be our way out. | B．The humankind should stick to the old tricks. |
| C．There is no problem that humans cannot handle. | D．The old technologies have done enough damage. |
| A．Satisfied but bored. | B．Playful but regretful. |
| C．Impressed but concerned. | D．Amused but surprised. |
| A．To examine ways to change the world. | B．To discuss human involvement in nature. |
| C．To review the man-made natural disasters. | D．To analyze the world-changing technologies. |
【推荐2】Wetlands, making up about 6% of Earth’s land surface, are found on every continent except for Antarctica.
Protecting against floods. Wetlands play a crucial role in protecting against floods. The plants and soil in wetlands act as natural sponges (海绵), storing excess water during heavy rainfall or storms.
Purifying (净化) water. Wetlands have exceptional abilities to purify water. Acting as natural filters, the plants, soil and micro creatures in wetlands remove sediments, excess nutrients and pollutants from water sources.
Fighting climate change. Aside from these vital functions, wetlands also play a significant role in fighting climate change.
However, the world’s wetlands are being lost at an alarming rate. Restoration and conservation projects offer hope that these ecosystems can be saved.
| A．Supporting life |
| B．Protecting birds |
| C．This process helps to improve water quality |
| D．The water stored in wetlands can be drunk |
| E．Wetlands play an important role despite their small coverage |
| F．Wetland plants have remarkable carbon storage capabilities |
| G．Thus, wetlands can reduce the risk of flooding in surrounding areas |
【推荐3】Finding fish is going to get harder as climate change continues to heat the world’s oceans. A new study finds that warming seas over the past 80 years have reduced the sustainable (可持续) catch of 124 species of fish.
Sustainable catch refers to the amount that can be harvested without doing long-term damage to the health of populations of some species.
Overfishing has made that decrease worse, researchers say. Overfishing refers to catching so many fish that the size of the population falls. In some parts of the world, such as the heavily fished Sea of Japan, the decrease is as high as 35 percent. That’s a loss of more than one in every three fish.
Researchers examined changes in 235 populations of fish between 1930 and 2010. Those fish populations were in 38 ocean regions. Temperature changes are different from one ocean site to another. But on average (平均) over that time, Earth’s sea-surface temperatures have risen by about 0.5℃.
On average, that warming has caused the sustainable catch to drop 4.1 percent, the study found. About 8 percent of the fish populations the team studied saw losses as a result of the ocean warming. About 4 percent of the population increased. That’s because certain species have thrived in warmer waters. One example is the black sea bass (鲈鱼). It lives along the northeastern U. S. coast. But as warming continues, even these fish will reach their limit, says Christopher Free. He works at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He led the work while he was at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N. J. His team shared its findings March 1 in Science.
1. The example of the Sea of Japan in paragraph 3 is to show ______.| A．the good harvest of fish | B．the harm of overfishing |
| C．the sudden change of climate | D．the strong influence of sustainable catch |
| A．broken up | B．died out | C．come into being | D．grown in number |
| A．Practical Sea Fishing Information | B．How Weather Affects Fishing |
| C．Oceans’ Fever Means Fewer Fish | D．Warming Waters, Moving Fish |
【推荐1】With heavy rain and strong winds, Cyclone (飓风) Amphan hit the coast of India and Bangladesh on a Wednesday afternoon, destroying homes and other buildings, after forcing millions to leave home.
The storm broke out earlier in the week in the Bay of Bengal, the first “super cyclone” to break there since 1999. Though the storm wasn't as strong as it had been when it landed, Cyclone Amphan still arrived with a force the same as a Category 3 storm (3级风暴).
With wind speed of 105 miles an hour, Amphan went through villages along the coast. Most people on the coast live in very simple houses. The cyclone destroyed many of these houses, blowing the roofs (屋顶) off and washing the walls away. Amphan also blew down trees and damaged electricity, telephone and Internet lines in many places along its path. The cyclone also caused huge and sudden rises in the sea level, known as “storm surges”. These surges were as high as 16 feet and pushed seawater in, ruining houses and farms along the way.
Although the cyclone had terrible power, it might not have been as deadly as people first feared. That's mainly because governments took action before the cyclone hit.
The governments in both India and Bangladesh were using schools as shelters. Several of the shelters were used before for patients with COVID-19. More shelters were needed than usual, because the governments were trying to fill the shelters only half full to allow enough space between people.
Because of the disease, many people didn't want to depart from their homes. This was especially true in India. Part of the reason was fear of catching the disease, but it was also because many people had lost so much during the country's lockdown (封锁).
1. What do we know about Cyclone Amphan?| A．It followed a Category 3 storm. | B．It slowed down when it landed. |
| C．It wasn't as strong as a Category 3 storm. | D．It was the strongest ever in the Bay of Bengal. |
| A．The causes of Cyclone Amphan. | B．The places Cyclone Amphan hit. |
| C．The damage caused by Cyclone Amphan. | D．The influence of Cyclone Amphan on the sea. |
| A．They paid special attention to patients. |
| B．They advised people to keep enough space. |
| C．They built many new shelters before it hit. |
| D．They moved many people to safety before it hit. |
| A．leave | B．share | C．sell | D．build |
【推荐2】Four million children are caught up in the war in Syria. Thirteen-year-old Rabia is one of them. Tall and thin, she sits shaking in a yellow T-shirt at the Al Marj settlement, close to the Lebanese-Syrian border.
Home for Rabia was once a two-story house near Damascus. Now it is a tent shared with her nine family members. Rabia’s face is covered with dirt, and she is tired and cold. She has just finished work, picking up potatoes that fell from a truck. Her typical day starts at 4 a.m., and she works a double shift that lasts about 16 hours, putting potatoes into bags. The only choice for her is that she can choose the first eight hours or the second eight hours. For this, she gets paid about $8 a day.
Working means Rabia misses school. Back in her village, she was the best in her class and good at everything. Her favorite subjects were Arabic literature and math. But that was Rabia’s old life. It was the life before war, before her family moved five times to escape the bombs, before leaving behind her bedroom, her toys and her friends without packing a bag, before “half the people I know” were dead.
The old life was full of laughter with her sister, Wala. But Wala, 14, got married two days ago to an 18-year-old Lebanese. Rabia is happy for her sister. Life in the settlement is tough— the children have nowhere to play, the bathing is poor and sexual abuse is out of control. You can’t blame parents —often confused, illiterate (不识字的)and poor—who want to marry off their daughters. They fear for their safety. Increasing numbers of Rabia’s girlfriends are getting married. Once in rural Syria, a girl got married at 16. According to UNICEF, the age is now dropping to 12 or 13. It is no secret that Lebanese men want to marry Syrian refugee girls, who work hard and don’t ask for anything.
1. Where is the passage most likely to have been taken from?| A．A news report. | B．A book review. |
| C．A history book. | D．A travel magazine. |
| A．the extra task | B．the low pay |
| C．the potato factory | D．the working period |
| A．present the dream of Rabia |
| B．show the damage of the war |
| C．predict the future of Syrian girls |
| D．compare the life before war and now |
| A．No place for children to play. |
| B．Condition of bathing is poor. |
| C．Sexual abuse is under control. |
| D．Syrian refugee girls have to work hard. |
| A．Their parents are worried about their safety. |
| B．They want money from the husband family. |
| C．They have no good friends to play with. |
| D．Their parents are confused, illiterate and poor. |
【推荐3】When you think of a national park, you generally picture fresh air and wild animals, right? Well, now you’re going to have to add tea shops and something called "the Tube" to your definition, because London, England has signed up to be the first "National Park City. "
London was established by the Romans around 2,000 years ago and has been continually inhabited(居住于)since then. In all that time, however, nobody had the idea to replace all the parks with big box stores or high buildings, which means London already has a much lower urban density(密度)than most of the world's cities. Nowadays about a third of the city is green space.
In July 2019, London announced its willingness to become the world’s first National Park City. Now the city is moving toward the goal of achieving 50% green space by the year 2050 by connecting and expanding public parks, greening up unused parking lots and the private yards of existing and new houses, fixing some green roofs on existing buildings and even cutting holes in fences for wildlife to pass through.
"Inspired by the aims and values of our precious rural national parks, the London National Park City is basically about making life better in the capital through both small everyday things and long-term strategic thinking," Daniel Raven-Ellison, who began the campaign to make London a National Park City six years ago, said in a press release. "We've been doing that in London for centuries, which is why London is so green and diverse."
London will have a much easier job achieving this type of green transformation than more densely- urbanized cities like Paris and New York, which have 10% and 27% green space, respectively. But that doesn’t mean it’s not possible--the National Park City Foundation hopes to employ 25 more cities in addition to London by the year 2025. Glasgow, Scotland and Newcastle upon Tyne in northeast England are both currently considering becoming National Park Cities.
1. Where can we find the data on London's measures to achieve its goal?| A．In Paragraph 1. | B．In Paragraph 2. |
| C．In Paragraph 3. | D．In Paragraph 4. |
| A．London's long-term strategic thinking. | B．The significance of London's campaign. |
| C．The effects of national parks on London. | D．The resources of London's green space. |
| A．Trying to be a national park city is turning new trend. |
| B．National park cities are springing up around the world. |
| C．It is so easy for London to become a national park city. |
| D．National park cities are making improvements to our life. |
【推荐1】Scott McKenzie and Jeremy Uhrich, two dads from Huntingdon, have transformed their passion for baking into a heartwarming community effort. This journey began when McKenzie, 58, found himself laid off and decided to learn a new skill every week. Baking was one of these new skills, and he was pleasantly surprised by the quality of his first batch of cookies. Proudly, he shared his creation on social media, catching the attention of Uhrich,a longtime friend, who playfully challenged him to a bake-off.
Uhrich, 42, baked with his sons that same day and proposed a competition to McKenzie. The two agreed to let community workers in the community judge the treats as a thank-you for their help during the challenging times. The competition was a success, but McKenzie and Uhrich didn’t stop there. They decided to deliver the rest of the cookies to community workers, sparking an idea that would eventually become Cookies for Caregivers.
The timing couldn’t have been more crucial—the community had recently experienced a terrible earthquake, leaving many homes destroyed and families displaced. As part of the rebuilding efforts, a Facebook group, Cookies for Caregivers was born. McKenzie and Uhrich allowed their neighbors to volunteer to make treats for first responders and business owners who were working tirelessly in the aftermath of the earthquake. Since the disaster struck, more than 100 people have joined the group, baking and delivering more than 15,000 cookies to workers at hospitals, grocery stores, fire departments, and more.
The impact of Cookies for Caregivers has been profound. Uhrich says “they’ve seen a lot of smiles and tears during deliveries”. The project has brought together members of the community who may have never interacted otherwise, all with a common goal of showing gratitude to those on the front lines of the rebuilding efforts after the earthquake. McKenzie says “they plan on continuing the effort because they are immensely grateful for the selfless contributions and want to express their appreciation to as many people as possible”.
1. What happened to Scott McKenzie before he started to bake?| A．He was unfortunately out of work. | B．He challenged Uhrich on social media. |
| C．He suffered a lot during the hard times. | D．He worked as a judge in the community. |
| A．Smiles and tears during deliveries. | B．A bake-off between McKenzie and Uhrich. |
| C．Positive responses to the delicious cookies. | D．The rebuilding efforts after a terrible earthquake. |
| A．A description of a terrible earthquake. | B．An introduction to Cookless for Caregivers. |
| C．The impact of Cookies for Caregivers. | D．The effort by responders and business owners. |
| A．It’s never too old to legent. |
| B．Two heads are holler than one. |
| C．Small acts of kindness can make a big difference. |
| D．A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. |
Adilah was 10 years old when she started reading newspaper stories. One story was about sharks. They had plastic in their stomachs. Adilah knew she needed to do something. First, she joined a group. It organized clean-up activities in Dubai, her home city. “The group helps me understand what a person can do and how I can really make a difference.” she says.
Then Adilah created Kids for a Better World. Its goal is to fight climate change. It has brought together nearly 10, 000 youths. They come from all over the world. Kids for a Better World is for people aged 8 to 16. It teaches them about what they can do to deal with climate change. They can grow food or plant trees. They can collect recyclables. “This is the information which can help change our future.” Adilah says.
Dubai is a desert big city. Growing up there has made Adilah understand the need for action. Her city faces the risks of rising temperatures and less water supply. She believes young people can bring attention to these environmental challenges.
Adilah is all about small actions. But she has big plans. She’d like to go to college in California. While she’s there, she’ll continue being an activist. She will also be running Kids for a Better World. She hopes to encourage others to fight for a greener planet.
1. Where is Adilah’s home city?2. What risks does Adilah’s city face?
3. Please underline the false part in the following statement and explain why.
➢Adilah created Kids for a Better World, whose goal is to teach youths how to grow food or plant trees.
4. Among Adilah’s qualities, which one(s) do you think will be important for us? Why? (In about 40 words)
【推荐3】An Indiana man ordered a Sausage McMuffin at his local McDonald’s and got much more than he expected.
On January 6, TikTok user Josiah Vargas, aka @ dookiedoeboy, shared a video detailing his trip to a McDonald’s drive-through in Elkhart, Indiana that resulted in him receiving much more than he ordered. In the video, which has attracted over 2.3 million views, Vargas is shocked by what he finds in his to-go bag instead of breakfast: thousands of dollars.
“Why? There’s a couple thousand dollars here,” Vargas says, holding up a baggie full of $20bills. “Like, why would they do this? Why would they give this to me?”
Vargas took to TikTok to share his shocking discovery, knowing that he could easily take the money and leave the McDonald’s workers in quite a bind. But, ultimately, he says he knows what he needs to do.
“Now I have to return it because I’m a good person, I guess,” Vargas says, putting the money back in the bag. “How interesting!”
After he walks into the store, he gives the bag to a worker at the register. The worker realizes he’s returning the cash they had been looking for. Amid all the relieved reactions from staff that can be heard from McDonald’s staff, one employee asks if they could give him a hug — which he accepts.
Back in the car, Vargas reflects on his good deed. “They were just all hugging me and thanking me,” he says. “When I was driving away, they called me back in. They gave me $200as well as free McDonald’s for a month.”
The TikTok ends with Vargas sharing what he believes to be the moral of the story. “Do good, people. Returned $5,000, got $200 and free McDonald’s for a month,” he says. “Good trade value and maybe a viral TikTok.”
1. Why was January 6 a special day for Josiah Vargas?| A．His video views ranked top in TikTok. | B．His bag was taken by others by mistake. |
| C．He was given a lot of money unexpectedly. | D．He was awarded a big prize by McDonald’s. |
| A．In serious trouble. | B．At great ease. |
| C．With extreme caution. | D．Under strict control. |
| A．Responsible and generous. | B．Considerate and honest. |
| C．Confident and humorous. | D．Curious and lucky. |
| A．Every man has his price. | B．Money is not everything. |
| C．Details determine success. | D．One good turn deserves another. |
