Over 30 percent of all food goes to waste, according to The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization（联合国粮农组织）. Supermarkets throw away food that is not sold before its sell-by date, while families throw away food that they can’t finish eating.
The world’s first food bank was founded in the US in 1967. Some people and stores donated （捐赠）extra food to the bank. People could take the food home there if they didn’t have money to buy any for themselves. In Shanghai, there is a “shared fridge” in some communities. It is free for everyone to take food from it.
A UK company called The Real Junk Food Project says that food that has passed its sell-by date is still safe to eat. They collect this food from supermarkets and sell it in cafes. You only have to pay as much as you feel is necessary. If you don’t want to spend money, you can volunteer at the cafes instead.
What else can we do to stop food waste? The answer is simply buying less food.
Share more, throw less | |
Food | Over 30 percent of all food goes to waste. Supermarkets throw away food that has Families throw away food that they can’t finish eating. |
Food bank. | It was created in the US in 1967. People who couldn’t Shanghai communities have shared fridges. |
Pay as you | The Real Junk Food Project collects that food that is not sold before its sell-by date. People can get food by volunteering at the cafes |
| Buy less. | That’s the least people can do. |
相似题推荐
Do you need useful and interesting books? Here we have some for you.
Best Learners
When your parents or teachers ask you some questions, this book can give you the answers. Read this book and learn:
►What the three problems in study are and what to do with the problems.
►What to do if you have no interest in a subject.
►Twenty-six simple exercises to help you study easily and fast.
You will get more from this book. For young students, you can buy Learn in Study for Beginners. It is easy to read.
How to Keep Pets
A pet can be our best friend. Do you have pets in your house? Are they in good shape? This book shows you many colorful pictures of lovely pets and tells you:
►How to choose pets you like best.
►How to build houses or nests (巢穴) for your pets.
►How to feed the pets and how to clean them.
Buy this book and you will learn more.
We have many other books to sell. For more information, enter www. knowbetter. com. If you buy more than two books at a time, you’ll get 10% off.
| Two | |
| Best Learners | ►What are the three problems in study and what to do with ►What can you do if you aren’t ►It’s |
| How to Keep Pets | ►You should choose your ►You’d better ►In order to make your pets healthy, you should feed them and keep them |
| The book, Learn in Study for Beginners, is easy for young students to | |
| If you | |
| You can get 10% off if you buy | |
Healthy eating doesn’t just mean what you eat, but how you eat. Here is some advice on healthy eating.
Eat with others. It can help you to see others’ healthy eating habits. If you usually eat with your parents, you will find that the food you eat is more delicious.
Listen to your body. Ask yourself if you are really hungry. Have a glass of water to see if you are thirsty—sometimes you are just thirsty, you need no food. Stop eating before you feel full.
Eat breakfast. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. After you don’t eat for the past ten hours, your body needs food to get you going. You will be smarter after eating breakfast.
Eat healthy snacks like fruits, yogurt or cheese. We all need snacks sometimes. In fact, it’s a good idea to eat two healthy snacks between your three meals. This doesn’t mean that you can eat a bag of chips instead of a meal.
Don’t eat dinner late. With our busy life, we always put off eating dinner until the last minute. Try to eat dinner at least 3 hours before you go to bed. This will give your body a chance to digest (消化) most of the food before you rest for the next 8-10 hours.
1. Should we eat alone or eat with others?2. Why breakfast is the most important meal of the day for us?
3. What healthy snacks does the writer suggest?
4. When should we eat dinner?
5. How many pieces of advice on healthy eating does the passage talk about?
Working Out through Online Videos
Physical exercise is good for our mind, body and spirit. Today, working out through online videos is becoming very popular. Since the Internet is widely used, it’s very easy for us to do so. That means we can work out anytime anywhere.
One of my friends, Lin Fei. followed short workout videos to do daily exercise. “With live programs, I feel like working out with my friends, which encourages me to hold on to the last minute.” she said. Another friend of mine, Michael, told me that workout videos let him feel so comfortable. “I have a fear of working out at the gym（健身房）because I don’t like being watched by others. Working out at home makes working out much more enjoyable.” he said.
With their examples, I decided to give it a try. When I told my plan to my elder sister, a P.E. teacher, she reminded me that workout videos could be helpful but might still carry some problems.
“Without being with someone in person, you will be less willing （愿意的）to work out to your best. Working out at the gym allows you to have advice in real time and get pushed harder.” my sister said to me. “Well, if you really want to have a try. first, choose proper programs or videos. That’s very important. And then ask your friends for advice. Their experiences can give you a good sight into what you can expect. Anyway, don’t be addicted（沉迷的）to it. You should try different ways to work out to be healthy.”
At her suggestions, I finally followed an online workout program with personalized help that is held for three months. After the first period of training, I felt it very practical and helpful when I put in the right amount （量） of work along with a strong will. Compared with going to the gym, using online videos to work out is a much cheaper and time-saving choice. But it can be difficult sometimes when I’m too lazy or too busy to stick to it.
1. Which way to work out is becoming very popular today?2. Why does Michael dislike working out at the gym?
3. What is the problem of working out without someone else in person?
4. How did the writer feel about his first period of training?
5. Would you like to follow online videos to work out? Why or why not?
When you want to invite friends to a party, you’d better send them invitations. This is a good way to show your respect（尊重）. Here are some ways of inviting friends to your party.
Mailed Invitation
The most traditional way to invite your friends is to mail invitations. You need to write down all the information about the party, such as the party time, place, clothes to wear, things to bring, phone number and so on.
Online Invitation
You can also invite friends to a party through the Internet. You can buy some online invitations, put pictures and videos in the online invitations and then e-mail them to your friends.
Phone Call
If you want to save more time, you can just make a phone call. In this way, you can tell them more about your party. And you can hear if they are interested in the party.
In-person（亲自）
An in-person invitation can let you talk to your friends about the party and know their interests. But when you talk to the friends, you may forget some important information.
So, you’d better prepare an invitation for them, too.
1、2题完成句子；3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下全文的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. Sending invitations is a good way to
2. The most traditional way to invite your friends is to
3. What can you do when you want to save more time?
4.
5.
【推荐2】Do you like eating instant noodles (方便面)? The food is easy to make and cheap to buy. People have celebrated its 60th birthday this year. It was invented by a Japanese businessman Momofuku Ando in 1958.
China is the biggest market for instant noodles. It can be a snack for students, a meal on a train, or just a choice for hungry workers. More than 46.2 billion instant noodles packets were sold on the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong in 2013, a BBC article reported. But by 2016, those sales had dropped to 38.5 billion packets, according to the World Instant Noodles Association.
One of the reasons for the drop could be the rise of online food delivery services (外卖服务). They can bring you food wherever you are. They also offer more choices and tastier food. According to a 2016 survey by China Youth Daily, about 70 percent of young people order meals online once a week.
This shows that Chinese people now expect higher for the quality of their food, according to Shen Hongbing, a professor from Chongqing Technology and Business University.
Facing this challenge, instant food companies are trying to do something to increase sales. For example, Kangshifu, one of the largest instant noodle companies, puts more natural food and fewer man-made tastes into the noodles and it also tries to make its noodles non-fried (非油炸), which can cut the calories (卡路里) and bring less fat. Another big company, Tangdaren, take actions too. It changes the price from 9 yuan to 7 yuan for each bowl. There are many other instant food companies following them to improve their products to meet people’s needs.
Will instant noodles disappear one day? We don’t know. But they have surely left a mark on dining history.
1. Who invented instant noodles?2. What do instant food companies do to increase sales?
3. If you have no time for your meals, will you choose instant noodles? Why or Why not?
How do astronauts live and work on a space station? You can get the answer from the Tiangong Class, a series of lectures from China: s space station. In the Tiangong Class, Chinese astronauts became the “teachers in space”. Months ago, three Shenzhou-13 astronauts, Wang Yaping, Ye Guangfu and Zhai Zhigang, gave their first class. Thousands of young students took the class.
With the help of the other two astronauts, Wang first gave the students a tour around. She showed students how to live and work on the space station. After the tour, the astronauts did some interesting experiments. In one experiment, Wang made a small water film and put a pink folded paper flower on it. Soon the flower blossomed. “I made the flower with my daughter while on earth and I always think of her when I see the flower,” said Wang. “Students, all of you are flowers of the motherland. I hope your dreams can blossom like flowers.”
During the class, the students learned how different space is from the earth. Many students showed great interest in space and science. A girl, a fifth-grade student, said, “It was an eye-opening experience. The experiments really surprised me. They were wonderful! I want to be an astronaut, too!”
1-2题完成句子；3-4题简略回答；5题将文中划线句子译成汉语。
1. In the Tiangong Class, Chinese astronauts became the “teachers
2. Wang showed students how to
3. What did the astronauts do after the tour?
4. What are all of the students according to Wang?
5.
China throws（扔）away enough food to feed about 5, 000, 000 people every year. President Xi calls on Chinese people to stop wasting their food and try to change the bad habit. It’s called Operation Empty Plate（光盘行动）.
“We’re going to prepare plates of two different sizes for people. That way, they can choose the one they need.” A restaurant owner said.
Some eaters are known as “big eaters”. Today it is not easy for you to find them. When you search for “big eaters” online, you can watch a short video. The video tells people not to waste food.
Now, schools around the country are also teaching children to treasure（珍惜）food from a young age in different ways. Students need to return his empty plate at a school in Shanghai. The school starts the “Clear Your Plate” program to stop food waste.
A teacher tells stories about saving food before having meals at school in Xiangxi. The school hopes that children know it’s important to treasure food.
1. How many people can be fed by the food China throws away every year?2. Who calls on Chinese people to stop wasting their food and try to change the bad habit?
3. Why is the restaurant owner going to prepare plates of two different sizes for people?
4. Is it easy for you to find “big eaters” today?
5. What does the school in Xiangxi hope?
It has been 10 years since the Clean Your Plate Campaign was started in 2013. Although some achievements have been made, there are still some problems.
Nowadays, in China, more and more people are ordering their meals online. The number of online food orderers is a lot more than before. A study found that every time someone orders food, they waste about 57.5 grams (克) on average.
Why is this happening? Well, sometimes when we order food, we get excited by discounts (折扣) and end up buying more than we need. This can mean we leave food uneaten. To stop this, China’s government has told food delivery (递送) websites to make sure restaurants offer smaller meal sizes and to change how discounts work. These websites also remind customers not to waste food when they pay online.
And it’s not just the websites doing their part, restaurants are too! Some restaurant workers, like Li in Beijing, say that people can now choose how big they want their meal to be when they order. Another restaurant owner, Mao, offers smaller rice portions (一份) , which saves customers money and cuts down on waste.
Leftover food isn’t being thrown away either. Some smart restaurant owners are making “surprise boxes” out of food that isn’t used. People can buy these boxes without knowing exactly what’s inside, which is fun and helps reduce waste.
China knows food waste is a big deal, so in 2013 they started the “Clear Your Plate” campaign, and in 2021, they enact (制定) laws to prevent food waste. All these efforts are there to make sure food isn’t wasted and everyone does their part to help!
The Clean Your Plate Campaign was started in 2013. So far, it has made some achievements. But food waste is still a problem. Nowadays, in China, more and more people are ordering their meals online. Some of them become Many restaurants have taken some actions. People can now China’s government has made |
The United Nations believes about 17 percent of the world’s food goes to waste each year. That amounts to 931 million tons of food being thrown away from homes, stores and food companies.
The information comes from the UN Environment Program’s Food Waste Index Report 2021. The report says food waste is not only a problem in rich countries like Britain and the United States. It happens in poor countries, too, where food can go bad without cold storage. Most of the wasted food — 61 percent comes from homes. The rest comes from stores and food service companies.
Sometimes stores offer reduced prices on larger amounts of food, so people buy too much food, but they do not always use it before it goes bad. Also, the writing on food containers (容器) can be hard to understand. In some cases, the producers put a date that shows when the food will be best to eat. Sometimes the food is still good for a number of days after the date, but people will throw it away. Food administrators (管理者) in the US have asked producers to label (标明) their products in a way that is easier for people to understand.
Researchers say more attention should be paid to the influence of food waste on the world. In the past few years, because of food waste, an increasing amount of land has been required to plant crops. What’s more, more forests are also being cleared for more food production. If food waste is reduced, it might be possible to lessen (减少) the food production.
1. How much food is being wasted from homes, stores and food companies?2. Is food waste a problem in poor countries?
3. Why do people sometimes buy too much food?
4. How can food producers help people reduce food waste?
5. What influences does food waste have on the world?
