1 . In the United States, farmers who are trying to earn money find the situation difficult to deal with. The United States Department of Agriculture found that more than half of the small farms in California do not make money. But the United Nations reported at least one third of the food is wasted by not selling it out in time.

One California farm family is using social media to change the situation and reduce wasted food. Nick Papadopoulos is the manager of Bloomfield Farms in Sonoma County. He was sad and worried to watch his employees returning from some weekend farmers’ markets with top quality unsold products.

Mr. Papadopoulos said he would find boxes of leaf greens and carrots left in a storehouse. The vegetables would go bad before the next market day. One night, he began thinking about the matter of wasted food when he didn’t know how to deal with 32 cases of broccoli (西兰花). Usually he would give it to chickens and use the rest to make fertilizer (肥料). He thought he shouldn’t let the farm products go to waste.

Then his daughter showed him a book she bought online. Suddenly it hit him that he could offer the food at a low price by advertising it on the farm’s Facebook page on Sunday nights. The deals were open to anyone using the social media website. In the first week, some neighbors came to his home to buy the vegetables. Another week, the buyers were a group of friends. And now many people wait to buy his cheap products.

After his success, Mr. Papadopoulos helped to set up a website called cropmobster. com, which is a place where people deal with food production at low prices, feeding the hungry. Since March, the website has stopped more than 20, 000 kilograms of food from going to waste.

1. According to the United Nations, much food is wasted mainly because          .

A．there is too much food	B．the food can’t be sold out
C．the food isn’t of good quality	D．the prices of the food are high

2. Where did Nick’s farm products use to be sold?

A．On weekend markets.	B．On a food website.
C．In the supermarkets.	D．Beside his farms.

3. How did Nick deal with his unsold farm products in the past?

A．Gave them to the poor.

B．Sold them at lower prices.

C．Put them in a storehouse for the next chance.

D．Gave them to chickens and turned them into fertilizer

4. What does cropmobster. com mainly deal with?

A．Improving the farm products.

B．Improving the farmers’ incomes.

C．Providing cheap food for the poor.

D．Helping farmers sell out farm products.

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Cleaning your plate may not help feed hungry children today, but the timeworn (陈旧的) advice of mothers everywhere may help reduce food waste from the farm to the fork and make it     1    (easy) to feed the world's     2    (grow) population. Hard data is still being collected, but experts in Chicago say that each American     3    (throw) away 33 pounds of food each month, which means everyone throws away almost 400 pounds of food every year. In richer nations, fruits and vegetables end up in the trash because they aren’t pretty enough     4    (meet) standards, and have gone bad in a home refrigerator. In developing countries, much food goes wrong     5     it gets to the market because of poor roads. But the effect of food waste is far     6    the kitchen. Agriculture is the world's largest     7    (consume) of water, a big consumer of energy. No matter     8    sustainable (可持续的) farming is, if the food is not eaten, it means we don’t make good use of our resources.   In     9     (real), the resources we could use have decreased     10    (sharp). All of us have responsibility for it.