【推荐1】With hundreds of tons of unsold vegetables and fruits sent to landfills at the end of each market day, the Central de Abastos has become the largest source of food waste in Mexico City. When De Paz Fuentes noticed the ______, he partnered with the market to turn the wasted food into ______ for the hungry. Since 2020, his program, the Itacate, has ______ the market’s daily food waste by 24% and ______ almost 800 tons of food to soup kitchens across the city.

“Efforts like this are ______, ” says Gutiérrez, who is one of the businessmen taking part in the program. “Now, if I have too many vegetables and won’t be able to ______ them, I call the Itacate. ”

When Gutiérrez makes the call, a volunteer ______ at Gutiérrez’s shop and helps distribute the unsold ______ among the city’s 450 soup kitchens, which ______ 80, 000 meals a day.

Just across the street from the Central de Abastos is one of the city’s largest soup kitchens. There, Leonardo Bautista, 62, is eating lunch after a(n) ______cleaning onions and green tomatoes at the market. The soup kitchen is the only place where he can get a(n) ______ meal near his workplace.

“It’s ______ to eat at the market,” he explains, “about $3. 50 for lunch, which is almost half of my daily salary.”

Some shop owners ______ they are familiar with the program, but still often throw away ______ food because it takes too much time to make a ______.

【推荐2】While food bank lines have grown longer, millions of pounds of produce are still going to waste. When several Stanford University students heard about the huge amount of food _________ every day, they were shocked and they knew they had to _________.

That’s why they _________ the Farm Link Project, a grassroots movement that not only _________ supplies to charities, but also helps farmers earn money.

“The farmers want to donate their surplus (盈余) Mood, but they can’t _________ to take on the related _________, like packaging and transporting a student explained.

That’s where FarmLink comes in. Funded by donations, they _________ food from farmers and pay truckers to deliver _________ to food bank distributors.

Their first projects in April alone transported 50,000 pounds of onions and 10,000 eggs and _________ 644, 000 pounds of food across many states. The group quickly ____________ to include 20 students and graduates from five different colleges. “Our ____________ is to get produce where it is needed most,’’ said another student. “No food bank should have to turn people away.”

With so many devoted, caring individuals working ____________ to make that happen, we have no doubt they’ll ____________ their goal!

Talk about making a difference!____________ FarmLink families across the country won’t have to worry about going ____________.

【推荐3】This pasta（意大利面食）is no ordinary pasta. When imprinted with grooves（沟、槽），it can _________into tubes, and other traditional shapes as it cooks. This new technique would _________ uncooked pastas to take up less space. That means it would need less _________

Pasta lovers “are very picky about the shapes of pasta and how they _________ with different sauces,” says Lining Yao. She studies the _________ of smart materials at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn. Flat pasta like spaghetti holds less sauce than twisty types like rotini. But those shapes come at a(n) _________ :bigger packages. For some _________ pasta, more than 60 percent of the package holds just air.

Yao and her colleagues _________ a series of grooves onto one side of each noodle. Then they cooked that pasta. The pasta _________ water as it cooked. But the liquid couldn’t go as fully into the grooved side. So that side became less expanded than the ____________ side．That asymmetric（不对称的）expansion bent the ____________ flat noodle into a curve（曲线）．By changing the arrangement of the grooves，the researchers ____________ the final shape.

Yao and her colleagues reported their ____________ in Science Advances.

The pasta ____________ good camping food, Yao says. A member of her team brought it along on a recent hiking trip. The pasta slips easily into a small pack. But it cooks into a(n) ____________ shape.

【推荐1】As a well-recognized chef, television star, and restaurant owner, Joyce Chen introduced Chinese food to America. She made such a(n) ________ impact on American culture that her photo was included on a US stamp.

Joyce Chen was born in a ________ family and discovered her enthusiasm for cooking at a very early age. Her father ________ a family chef that cooked all of their meals. Chen ________ Chinese cuisine simply by watching their chef cook in their home kitchen. By the time she was 18 years old, she organized and cooked her first ________ dinner. This was the beginning of her career in the ________ industry.

In 1949, Chen and her family moved to Massachusetts. While ________ near Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she frequently met Chinese students that ________ the food they’d grown up with. Chen’s children attended Buckingham School and she would often cook food to be served at ________ events. Her meals quickly became popular among the students. This ________ Chen to open her first restaurant in 1958. At this restaurant, she often served “buffet-style (自助式的)” meals, allowing customers to ________ samples of everything.

Chen rose to fame as a(n) ________ and began holding cooking classes. She released her first cookbook and ________ in “Joyce Chen Cooks”, her own cooking show that aired world wide. However, she began to ________ her brand by marketing various cooking items as well as ________ and selling Chinese sauces to supermarkets. In the early 1980s Chen began to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (阿尔茨海默病) and passed away in 1994.

【推荐2】We lived on a Kansas farm and had more than enough beef to feed our family. Mom always cooked enough meat to _______ a pot of leftover soup the next day. Tomatoes, green beans, corn and the vegetables cooked with the original roasted meat filled a large pot.

We _______ government-supplied foods in the 1950s, including blocks of cheese. We found inventive ways to _______ them up. Our vegetable beef soup, for example, was topped with a big piece of cheese. I _______ the combination and always topped off my soup with cheese when I _______ it to my family.

My cooking instructor in college said, “Recipes are only a jumping-off place. You should add your personal touches to the dishes you _______ .” That explains the _______ of my recipe for vegetable beef soup.

I married into a Southern family, and fresh okra(秋葵)soon found its way into the _______ . When we moved to Missouri, a new neighbor stopped by to _______ if I had any cabbage she could use to finish making supper.

“Vegetable beef soup just isn’t ________ without it,” she said. Once I ________ it, I knew what she meant. My soup grew ever ________ , and so did my soup pot.

A college friend lived in Spain when we lived in Germany for a few years, and she came for a(n) ________ . We were cooking dinner together, my soup of course, when she opened the refrigerator and ________ a bottle of soy sauce(酱油). “It improves the taste,” she said.

She ________ some in the soup and I knew I had a(n) ________ to my list of ingredients.

And that`s how the ________ of my soup has changed. It reflects a series of friends, ________ and places in my life. Each time I ________ it, I relive the memory of each ingredient, and how I was inspired to ________ my soup.

【推荐2】The Queen’s Gambit is a TV series about a chess genius inspired by a doorkeeper. Now, a(n) _________ version of The Queen’s Gambit is playing out at a school in Maine.

David Bishop _________ the school day as a full-time doorkeeper, but after work, he grabs his chess boards and begins his second _________: part-time chess coach.

The 61- year- old doorkeeper has _________ both elementary and middle school teams to state championship titles this year. One of his players, 11-year-old Avery Zhang, _________ the state champion for grades K-5 this year.

_________ Mr. Bishop enjoyed chess and was good at it, he didn’t join his high school chess club, _________ he would be labelled as a nerd (呆子). These days, thanks to the growing _________ of chess after The Queen’s Gambit, those stereotypes (刻板印象) no longer apply.

But unlike the TV series’ doorkeeper, Bishop is _________ not just one girl but dozens of kids of all skill levels and backgrounds. His one worry is that there aren’t as many girls ____________ chess. There’s only one female on his middle school champion team right now. He’s hoping to ____________ that situation by getting kids into the ____________ at earlier ages.

Bishop also emphasizes to his young players that chess is about ____________ winning. “I tell my kids that chess ____________ your life,” he told the Daily News, “Whether in life or in chess, if you work hard, if you’re not discouraged by failure, you will be ____________.”

【推荐3】George Eliot took a book off the shelf in a San Diego library. He found himself interested in the ________ penciled in the margin(页边空白). In the front of the book, he discovered the ________ owner’s name, Miss Julie Pankhurst. With time and effort he ________ her address and wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to correspond. The next day he was shipped overseas for ________ in World War Ⅱ.

During the next year the two ________ to know each other through the mail. George Eliot discovered that Julie Pankhurst was such a considerate lady that he couldn’t help but ________ in love with her gradually. He requested a photograph, but she refused, responding, “ ________ you love me, you won’t mind my appearance. Unless you don’t really love me…” When the day ________ came for him to return from Europe, they scheduled their first ________ — 7:00 at the Grand Central Station in New York. “You’ll ________ me,” she wrote, “by the red rose I’ll be wearing on my lapel(翻领).”

So at 7:00 George Eliot was in the station ________ a girl whose heart he loved, but whose face he’d never seen. Just then a pretty young woman ________ a green suit was coming toward him, her figure long and slim. He was ________ entirely and forgot to notice that she was not wearing a rose.

Almost uncontrollably George Eliot made one step ________ to her, and then he saw Julie Pankhurst. She was standing almost directly behind the girl. She was well past 50 and had ________ hair. The girl wearing the green suit was walking quickly away. George Eliot ________ to follow her, and yet had desire for the woman whose ________ had truly accompanied him.

“I’m Lieutenant George Eliot, and you must be Miss Julie Pankhurst. I am so glad you could meet me; may I take you to dinner?” The woman’s face ________ into a tolerant smile.

“I don’t know ________ this is about, son,” she answered, “but the young lady ________ me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said if you were to ask me out to dinner, I should go and tell you that she is waiting for you in the big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of test!”