内容包括:
1. 活动目的;
2. 活动内容;
3. 号召同学积极参加。
参考词汇:节约粮食人人有责Saving food is everyone’s responsibility
Dear students,
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The Students’ Union
1.简述浪费粮食的现象;
2.节约粮食的意义;
3.发出倡议。
注意:
1.写作词数应为80左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Say No to Wasting Food
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1. 节约用电的必要性;
2. 日常节电的措施。
注意:
1. 词数80左右;
2. 可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear teachers and my fellow students,
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The Students’ Union
4 . Gleaning—collecting leftover crops from farmers’ fields—is regaining popularity in Britain. A growing network of volunteer gleaning groups are being welcomed into farmers’ fields to collect tonnes of free produce. The produce would then be given to local food banks, which would otherwise be left to rot after the commercial harvest.
Research has shown that up to 16 percent of a crop can be wasted for various reasons, such as overproduction to ensure meeting supermarket orders, produce not being the right shape or size to meet supermarket standards, unexpected weather patterns changing harvest times and yield, as well as shortages of pickers.
The charity Feedback told The Times that its number of gleaning groups across England had risen from five in 2017 to twenty last year. “Feedback’s overall aim is for closer links between farmers and the communities they feed, so that getting hands on the land is an uncomplicated, accessible and enjoyable affair,” the group said.
Holly Whitelaw, 52, from St Just in Penwith, set up the Cornwall Gleaning Network last year after watching a BBC series that highlighted food poverty in Cornwall. She contacted Feedback, which gave her a £2,000 grant to get insurance, knives, and cut-proof gloves.
She set up a Facebook page, found willing volunteers and then managed to get a £10,000 grant from Feeding Britain, a national network of antihunger partnerships, to establish seven coordinators across the county and pay for more knives and gloves. They also raised funds to buy a pick-up truck.
“We look like proper farmers now,” Whitelaw said.
As a thank you to the farmers, they have begun planting trees to reduce wind speed across their land, preventing damage to crops and minimising soil erosion (侵蚀).
1. The passage mainly focuses on ________ in UK.A.the benefits of gleaning |
B.research on gleaning network |
C.warm welcome to gleaning pickers |
D.the growing acceptance of gleaning |
A.Productions in poor quality. |
B.Lack of labor working the land. |
C.Changeable weather conditions. |
D.The increasing supermarket orders. |
A.A growing network of volunteers. |
B.Feedback’s overall aim for closer links. |
C.A TV series revealing regional food poverty. |
D.Caring communities and volunteers’ joint effort. |
A.No cross, no crown. |
B.From saving comes having. |
C.Knowledge starts with practice. |
D.One good turn deserves another. |
1. 食物浪费的现状;
2. 食物浪费的影响;
3. 解决食物浪费的措施。
注意:1. 写作词数应为80左右;
2. 可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Ladies and gentlemen,
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1.简述浪费粮食的现象;
2.节约粮食的意义:
3.发出倡议。
注意:
1.词数100左右;
2.题目已为你写好。
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7 . There are energy savings to be made from all recyclable materials, sometimes huge savings. Recycling plastics and aluminum, for instance, uses only 5% to 10% as much energy as producing new plastic or smelting (提炼) aluminum.
Long before most of us even noticed what we now call “the environment”, Buckminster Fuller said, “Pollution is nothing but the resources (资源) we are not harvesting. We allow them to be left around because we’ve been ignorant of their value.” To take one example, let’s compare the throwaway economy with a recycling economy as we feed a cat for life.
Say your cat weigh 5kg and eats one can of food each day. Each empty can of its food weights 40g. In a throwaway economy, you would throw away 5,475 cans over the cats 15-year lifetime. That’s 219kg of steel — more than a fifth of a ton and more than 40 times the cat’s weight.
In a recycling economy, we would make one set of 100 cans to start with, then replace them over and over again with recycled cans. Since almost 3% of the metal is lost during reprocessing, we’d have to make an extra 10 cans each year. But in all, only 150 cans will be used up over the cat’s lifetime — and we’ll still have 100 left over for the next cat.
Instead of using up 219kg of steel, we’ve used only 6kg. And because the process of recycling steel is less polluting than making new steel, we’ve also achieved the following significant savings:in energy use — 47% to 74%; in air pollution — 85%; in water pollution — 35%; in water use — 40%.
1. What does Buckminster Fuller say about pollution?A.It is becoming more serious. | B.It is the resources yet to be used. |
C.It destroys the environment. | D.It benefits the economy. |
A.50. | B.100. | C.150. | D.250. |
A.To introduce an environmentalist. | B.To promote the idea of recycling. |
C.To discuss the causes of pollution. | D.To defend the throwaway economy. |
A.A novel. | B.A fiction. | C.Sports column of newspaper. | D.A magazine. |
8 . Like most of us, I try to be mindful of food that goes to waste. The arugula (芝麻菜)was to make a nice green salad, rounding out a roast chicken dinner. But I ended up working late. Then friends called with a dinner invitation. I stuck the chicken in the freezer. But as days passed, the arugula went bad. Even worse, I had unthinkingly bought way too much; I could have made six salads with what I threw out.
In a world where nearly 800 million people a year go hungry, “food waste goes against the moral grain,” as Elizabeth Royte writes in this month’s cover story. It’s jaw-dropping how much perfectly good food is thrown away — from “ugly” (but quite eatable) vegetables rejected by grocers to large amounts of uneaten dishes thrown into restaurant garbage cans.
Producing food that no one eats wastes the water, fuel, and other resources used to grow it. That makes food waste an environmental problem. In fact, Royte writes, “if food waste were a country, it would be the third largest producer of greenhouse gases in the world.”
If that’s hard to understand, let’s keep it as simple as the arugula at the back of my refrigerator. Mike Curtin sees my arugula story all the time — but for him, it's more like 12 bones of donated strawberries nearing their last days. Curtin is CEO of DC Central Kitchen in Washington, D.C., which recovers food and turns it into healthy meals. Last year it recovered more than 807,500 pounds of food by taking donations and collecting blemished (有瑕疵的) produce that otherwise would have rotted in fields. And the strawberries? Volunteers will wash, cut, and freeze or dry them for use in meals down the road.
Such methods seem obvious, yet so often we just don’t think. “Everyone can play a part in reducing waste, whether by not purchasing more food than necessary in your weekly shopping or by asking restaurants to not include the side dish you won’t eat,” Curtin says.
1. What does the author want to show by telling the arugula story?A.We pay little attention to food waste. | B.We waste food unintentionally at times. |
C.We waste more vegetables than meat. | D.We have good reasons for wasting food. |
A.Moral decline. | B.Environmental harm. |
C.Energy shortage. | D.Worldwide starvation. |
A.It produces kitchen equipment. | B.It turns rotten arugula into clean fuel. |
C.It helps local farmers grow fruits. | D.It makes meals out of unwanted food. |
A.Buy only what is needed. | B.Reduce food consumption. |
C.Go shopping once a week. | D.Eat in restaurants less often. |
9 . 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 |
A.On weekend markets. | B.On a food website. |
C.In the supermarkets. | D.Beside his farms. |
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 |
A.Improving the farm products. |
B.Improving the farmers’ incomes. |
C.Providing cheap food for the poor. |
D.Helping farmers sell out farm products. |
10 . Multiple measures have been taken to fight food waste, but a young man is making a big difference with technology.
Liu Jichen, a student from Tsinghua University, has developed a WeChat mini-program called Clear Your Plate. After a meal, users can open the mini-program and take a picture of their empty plates. Once the image is recognized by the AI, students can collect points and use them to buy gifts or charity meals which will be donated to children in poor rural areas. Liu and his team launched the Clear Your Plate campaign in November, 2020 for the third year. It has swept over 1,017 universities across the country. The one-month campaign attracted almost 1.6 million participants and collectively reduced food waste by 862 tons and carbon emissions by 3,337 tons.
The idea to develop such a mini-program came from Liu’s experience in a canteen. In 2017, he found that a restaurant would give diners who finished off their food a card and offer small gifts after a certain number of cards had been collected.“Technological innovation is a good way to reduce food waste,” Liu thought. He organized a team of 20 members to work on the project at the end of 2017. To solve the AI’s problem of identifying photos of empty plates, the team spent half a year collecting over 100,000 samples in canteens and restaurants. In 2018, the mini-program was officially put into operation. They then launched a campaign later that year.
“There were so many unknowns in research and development. For our team members, the biggest psychological challenge was whether we were confident enough to complete it,” said Liu. Now, they have achieved their goal, and the mini-program has more than five million registered users.
“We hope that our efforts can start a new trend among the younger generation by encouraging them to cherish their food and develop the habit of thrift (节约),” Liu said. “Through the campaign, we hope to inspire everyone to take action against food waste and contribute Chinese wisdom and solutions to global food security challenges.”
1. What can we infer about the Clear Your Plate campaign?A.It was started in 2020. | B.It is the best way to avoid food waste. |
C.It is aimed at supporting the poor people. | D.It is very popular among young people. |
A.His experience in a canteen. | B.His research on empty plates. |
C.His interest in collecting cards. | D.His worry about food shortage. |
A.Confidence. | B.Enough funds. | C.Wide support. | D.Advanced technology. |
A.Fighting against Food Waste | B.An Excellent Young Inventor |
C.Clearing Your Plate with Technology | D.The Important Role of Mini-programs |