Late on a Friday night, Asia Faircloth had one question for the seven teenagers for the next three hours. “You want to play with knives?” the cooking teacher asked.
In two groups, the students were busy in a kitchen at the High Point Community Center in Seattle, the US. Asia Faircloth taught one group how to cook noodles with tofu and chicken. The other group joined Jacob Alhadeff to practice new chopping skills with knives.
The center’s four-week cooking course was centered on cooking and food justice. The city recruited students from poor families. Each student received 100 dollars at the end of the course.
“Low-income(低收入)people of color are more likely to meet food injustice(不公正),” Alhadeff said. “So teaching cooking skills and putting money back in the pockets of our community members seemed very important.”
Alhadeff and Faircloth started the course not only to teach kids how to cook, but also to encourage them to think more deeply about something behind food. They were shown how to connect the dots between personal choices and the cost of global food supplies(供给).
Tahir Adams and Najah Goodrich, two juniors at Seattle Lutheran High School, joined the classes. They talked about how farmers have a hard time putting food on their own kitchen tables while growing fresh vegetables for the rest of the country.
“We started with more personal things, then looked at the bigger, global view like, how climate change has influenced food,” Adams said. “It can be really bad when droughts(干旱)turn places into deserts.”
31. What do we know about the cooking course?
A.It mainly focused on cooking skills. |
B.It was held in Seattle, the US. |
C.The students were from rich families. |
D.Each student paid 100 dollars for the course. |
32. What does the underlined word “recruited” mean in Chinese?
33. In the fourth paragraph, Alhadeff explains _________.
A.the standards for choosing students |
B.community members are stupid |
C.the importance of giving students money |
D.why the course provides cooking skills |
34. In the cooking course, students were encouraged ________.
A.to use cooking skills to make money |
B.to focus on personal choices |
C.to learn to grow fresh vegetables |
D.to think more deeply about food |
35. What can we infer(推断)from what Adams and Goodrich said?
A.They were proud of the cooking skills they learned. |
B.They learned nothing much from the course. |
C.The course widened their views on food. |
D.The course taught them how to solve droughts. |