1 . Throwing those unwanted leftovers or unused ingredients into the trash doesn’t just hurt your wallet—it also costs the climate. When food is wasted, so are the natural and human resources that go into producing, processing, transporting and storing it.    1    Food waste is a big problem. These small changes can help.

    2    Try to look around your kitchen and see what you can make with it before heading to the grocery store, because so many things can be substituted with what you already have. In other words, you don’t have to stick exactly to the recipe if it means buying a brand new jar of something that’ll just end up sitting in the back of the fridge.    3    

Cho, host of the YouTube channel, says her most common food-waste problem is one likely shared by many. “I’ll buy a bunch of items and then put them in my refrigerator and then I simply forgot about it” she says, calling it an issue of space management.    4    . Armed with glass containers and dry-erase markers, she says it allows her to quickly assess which ingredients she’s working with, then figure out how to use them.

Once you have the ingredients you need, make sure you’re using them to the fullest extent. For one, that means using all parts of the vegetable, reminding people that broccoli stems are “perfectly eatable” and carrot tops “make a wonderful stir-fry.” Like a red onion, if you have half of it that you’re not going to be using, for example, you’ll season it. And seasoned onions are great on a toast.    5    You can also give vegetables a second life by seasoning them.

A．So, keep track of what’s in the fridge by labeling.

B．You have luck getting onions to last longer by storing it.

C．Instead, create a recipe with the thing in the new jar.

D．It just has that extra taste, and you’re not wasting your food.

E．Those processes generate significant carbon dioxide emissions.

F．When making shopping lists, start by surveying what’s already in your fridge.

G．If you won’t have a regular use for that particular product, just replace the recipe.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the man?

A．A teacher.

B．A doctor.

C．A host.

2. What is the conversation mainly about?

A．How to save money.

B．How to spend money.

C．How to be a good housewife.

3. Where does the woman like shopping?

A．In supermarkets.

B．In outdoor markets.

C．In department stores.

4. What does the woman highly recommend?

A．Fixing things by ourselves.

B．Hiring someone to repair things.

C．Asking friends to help with the repairs.

3 . America has more than enough food for everyone to eat. But each year, billions of pounds of perfectly good food go to waste. Meanwhile, 34 million face hunger in the United States.

As the country’s largest food rescue organization, Feeding America partners with food manufacturers, grocery stores, restaurants, and farmers to rescue food and deliver it to food banks serving our neighbors.

Each year, 108 billion pounds of food is wasted in the United States. That equates to 130 billion meals and more than $ 408 billion in food thrown away each year. Shockingly, nearly 40% of all food in America is wasted.

Food goes to waste at every stage of food production and distribution from farmers to packers and shippers, from manufacturers to retailers to our homes. Food waste in our homes makes up about 39% of all food waste—about 42 billion pounds of food waste, and commercial food waste makes up about 61% of all food waste or 66 billion pounds of food waste. Feeding America focuses on reducing food waste on farms and in food service, manufacturing, and retail.

Last year, the Feeding America network and our partners rescued 4.7 billion pounds of groceries. That food went directly to meals for people facing hunger. This makes Feeding America the largest food rescue organization in the country.

Food rescue, or food recovery, is the practice of collecting high-quality food that would otherwise go to waste and distributing it to people facing hunger. We work with manufacturers, retailers, and farmers to reduce food waste and get rescued food to people in need.

We identify food at risk of going to waste, offer rescued food to food banks, safely ship food over long distances and keep food fresh longer once it reaches a food bank.

1. What do we know about the food in America?

A．It is barely enough.	B．It is quite abundant.
C．It is easily available.	D．It is increasingly insufficient.

2. What does the underlined phrase “equates to” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Consumes.

B．Multiplies.

C．Wastes.

D．Equals.

3. How does the author reveal the food waste in America?

A．By making comparisons.	B．By listing reasons.
C．By presenting data.	D．By offering examples.

4. What does Feeding America actually do?

A．It teaches people how to grow food.	B．It saves food from being wasted.
C．It urges government to take action.	D．It aims to relieve world hunger.

4 . Here are some of students’ opinions about waste.

Mary

As for me, I believe “Waste not, want not.” As we know, there are still millions of Chinese living in a poor condition. We can never afford waste. Therefore, there is no doubt that saving is still a good habit that we should not give up. I do not like the men who spend their money in a wrong way. They do not know waste is a bad thing. It can only make them happy for the time being.

Jacky

More and more people are no longer interested in the simple life style, including me. And I feel embarrassed to save the things I used. What I love is the latest fashion. In my eyes, saving is already out of style.

Sally

One of the best ways we students can do in this situation is to recycle the textbooks we are using everyday. There are different ways to do so, such as sending them to a recycling factory, reusing them for other purposes, passing them on to new students and so on.

Tim

The negative effects of waste can be shown as follows. Firstly, it makes some students ask their parents for money quite often, which is harmful to their development. If they don’t learn to support themselves, they will be “useless people” when they graduate. Secondly, it is not easy for our parents to arrange for our schooling. Last but not least, just like what Mary said that our country is still poor.

Now, please remember this English old saying “A penny saved is a penny earned”.

1. The text is most probably written for________.

A．teachers

B．parents

C．students

D．book sellers

2. Which of the following will Mary do?

A．Spending her money.	B．Making her happy.
C．Feeling embarrassed.	D．Considering saving is a good habit.

3. Which is FALSE about Tim’s opinion?

A．Waste makes students spend less money.

B．Waste probably makes students become “useless people”．

C．It is not easy for our parents to arrange for our schooling.

D．He agrees with Mary.

4. What does the writer really want to tell his readers?

A．Waste has become a serious problem.	B．People should not waste things.
C．Millions of Chinese living in a poor condition.	D．We should recycle the textbooks.

5 . Scientists at the University of Minnesota report Thursday in the journal Science that about a third of all food grown around the world never gets eaten. In terms of calories per person, cutting food waste is more of an immediate opportunity to feed more people than increasing crop yields around the world.

“But not all these calories are equal, when you look at how they hurt the global food supply,” says Paul West, who led the study. “Throwing away a pound of boneless beef effectively wastes 24 times more calories than discarding a pound of wheat. If you throw out some cabbage at a fancy restaurant in upstate New York, it doesn’t have much impact on the world’s food system. But throwing out a small steak has a huge impact—maybe more than all the cabbage in the restaurant put together. Wasting other animal products, such as chicken, eggs and dairy, has less effect on the global food supply than beef, but still more than vegetables and grains.

The US, China and India together throw out enough food each year to feed more than 400 million people, the team found. And the biggest global contributor to that loss is the US. Each day the average Americans waste up to about 1,200 calories per person. They throw out 290 effective calories from beef. They also waste about 550 calories from chicken and pork.

On the other side, India wastes the least amount of food and meat of the three countries. Each Indian, on average, effectively throws out about 44 calories a day, mostly rice and wheat.

China falls between the US and India. Each Chinese person wastes about 280 calories of wheat and rice every day. But the Chinese also love pork and each person effectively tosses 200 calories from pork each day. “The food service industry in China has really high amounts of waste,” West says. “It’s a cultural standard for them to order seven to nine dishes in restaurants to honor the guests. All that food doesn’t get eaten.”

1. What is the most direct way to feed more people in the world?

A．Reducing food waste.	B．Eating less than necessary.
C．Growing more crops.	D．Replacing grain with meat.

2. What does the underlined word “discarding” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Eating.

B．Buying.

C．Wasting.

D．Donating.

3. Which country is the most wasteful in the world?

A．India.

B．The US.

C．The UK.

D．China.

4. What message does West seem to convey in the last paragraph?

A．China should adopt Western food culture.	B．The number of dishes should be limited by law.
C．Chinese people should eat more wheat and rice.	D．Food waste in Chinese restaurants is very serious.

6 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. fertile   B. rewoven C. deep-rooted D. recapture   E. produce   F. needlessly G. foodstuffs H. minerals   I. worthlessly   J. document   K. deforested

The Promise of the Circular Economy

The origins of the expression “waste not, want not” can be traced to the 1500s.We feel bad when we expend resources     1     (like leaving lights on when we’re away) or throw out things that shouldn’t have become trash (like uneaten, past-its-prime produce). This is a     2     guilty feeling.

But we do waste in ways big and small. The result is this shocking fact: Of the     3    , fossil fuels, and other raw materials that we take from the Earth and turn into products, about two-thirds end up as waste. And, more likely than not, that waste is part of a larger environmental problem.

“Plastic trash drifted into     4     soils, rivers and oceans. A third of all food rotted, even as the Amazon was     5     to produce more,” writes senior environment editor Robert Kunzig in “The End of Trash”. Climate change is what happens when “we burn fossil fuels and spread the waste – carbon dioxide -- into the atmosphere.”

What if we could     6     waste and turn it into something else? This concept, called the circular economy, is not entirely new. For generations, in Prato, Italy, old wool sweaters have been reduced to their knitting thread and     7     into new clothes. And environmentalists have supported the ideas of “reduce, reuse and recycle” since the 1970s.

Kunzig was sent to     8     where the new circular economy is taking hold. They found a lot of examples. In London, researchers are feeding rotted farm     9     to insects, which are made into animal feed. In hotel kitchens around the world, chefs are reducing waste from     10     like cookies, yogurt and Coke with AI garbage cans that measure it.

“It reminds me of a line in Diner, a movie I love: If you don’t have good dreams, you got nightmares.” Kunzig said, “The circular economy is like that -- it’s a dream we have to try to make real.”

7 . 假设你是天津晨光中学学生李津，你的美国朋友Mike得知我国正在号召国民展开“节约粮食人人有责”的行动，特写信来询问如何开展相关活动。请根据以下提示，给他回复一封建议信，内容包括：
（1）简要表达你对此活动的看法；
（2）开展节约粮食活动的建议措施（量胃盛饭等）。
注意：
（1）词数不少于100；
（2）开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
（3）请适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯。
参考词汇：胃口appetite   光盘行动Clean Plate Campaign   吃播mukbang
Dear Mike,

I am more than delighted to know that you are interested in what our country has done in reducing food waste.

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Yours

Li Jin

8 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．The boss.

B．The supervisor.

C．The president.

D．The manager.

2.

A．To wear warm clothing in winter.

B．To turn off the lights when leaving the office.

C．To cooperate with cleaning staff in their cleaning.

D．To come to work earlier during the winter months.

3.

A．If they have energy saving suggestions.

B．If their offices become too cold.

C．If someone doesn’t cooperate with the new program.

D．If they have a complaint.

9 . Have you got any gadgets hanging around your home that you no longer want or use? Between us, we have millions of bits of tech stockpiled in drawers that could be given a new lease of life.

Part of the problem for our unloved gadgets is that many become obsolete quickly because their software doesn’t get updated. Other items are left unused because they’re broken or they’ve become replaced by a fancy new version. Many of these items are electronics, but despite them appearing to be past their sell-by date, they don’t need to end up in landfill. And here are some tips for you to make the most of our unwanted gadgets.

Recycling is the obvious solution

Materials used to make them can be extracted and reused in other things. As an example, Elisabeth Ratcliffe from the Royal Society of Chemistry told the BBC: “There are about thirty different elements just in a smartphone, and many of them are very rare. ” These can be used in touch screens and solar panels.

Repairing is the best approach

Probably the best approach to our throwaway culture is to repair our broken tech. This takes patience and skill, which can be learnt at repair clubs and repair cafés—free meeting places where you’ ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. In the UK, the interest in mending our stuff and giving it a new life is reflected by the popularity of a TV series called The Repair Shop, where craftspeople rescue and resurrect items their owners thought were beyond saving.

Upcycle is a final option

You can breathe new life into unwanted stuff by transforming it into valuable pieces or collectable retro items. These could be sold on, meaning you can make some cash from your junk and create much needed space in your home!

1. Which of the following isn’t the reason for the problems of unwanted gadgets?

A．Their software doesn’t get upgraded	B．They are substituted with senior versions
C．They need to end up in landfill	D．They may have passed sell-by date

2. In which way can you make some profit from dealing with thrown-away gadgets?

A．Recycle them

B．Repair them

C．Upcycle them

D．Reuse them

3. What is the best title for the passage?

A．How to make our gadgets last longer

B．How to protect environment better

C．The ways to use gadgets effectively

D．The problems of unwanted gadgets

10 . Be a Green Guest

When people take a vacation, they often take vacation from responsibility, too. Our behavior at hotels is one of the biggest problems. We have our linens（纺织品）washed daily for us, and are provided with an endless stream of hot water—what's not to love about that? But all of this luxury equals serious consequences for the environment.     1     They offer programs and facilities that save water and energy. That's a good start, but there is a lot more you can do to cut down the amount of waste produced wherever.

•     2    

In America alone, there are about 50,000 hotels. Now think if hotel management leaves out two small bottles for each hotel room every day, that's a huge amount of little plastic bottles that may not even get recycled. And what about all of that shampoo when you don't finish the bottle? A better way is to bring your own shampoo from home.

•Turn off the lights.

You do it when you're at home, right? Do it at the hotel, too. Studies have shown that, in hotels, the majority of energy spent through lighting comes from the bathroom light being left on for more than one hour!     3     , remember to hit the switch!

•Don't have your sheets or towels washed every day.

Sure, it's a luxury to have linens and towels. cleaned every day, but that's all it is. Washing a set of bed sheets and a pair of bathroom towels requires about 12-16 gallons of water. See if there is a policy for requesting that your towels and linens get washed weekly. In some hotels, it's as simple as hanging towels back up on a hook.     4     .

These tips are also useful for trips to a friend's or relative's house.     5     They will also save your hosts a lot of money.

A．Think about bathroom facilities

B．Just say "no" to hotel shampoos

C．When you're using the bathroom

D．After you're done with your business

E．They will save plastic, water, and electricity

F．More and more hotels are becoming eco-friendly

G．In others, you may ask the front desk for a personal request