1 . Can you imagine what 680,000 tons of food look like? That’s the amount of food wasted in Britain each year, and at the top of the list of wasted food is bread. In the British diet, bread appears in every meal. It is eaten for breakfast, used for sandwiches for lunch and put in soups at dinner. Almost everyone in Britain buys bread.

Bread is so important to the British that they use the word “bread” to mean “money” and the word “loaf” to mean “head”. So let’s use our “loaves” to understand why so much “bread” is wasted!

Even though bread is still sold in such a popular way and in such a large amount, that doesn’t mean it’s made full use of. It seems people are simply buying much more than they need, so they throw away the bread that they don’t need.

Baker Chris Young explains that the British aren’t valuing their bread because bread is no longer respected. “None of the bread that is thrown away is ‘real’ bread—homemade or carefully-made bread, but is bought from the bread shop.”

Another baker Mark Boyle agrees. “If you make something by yourself, you don’t want to waste it because you know how much energy you’ve put into it. But although home baking is a nice idea, for many it’s out of their ability because they have to work such long hours every day that they don’t have time to make bread by themselves at home. So they simply buy bread and just bring it home to eat.”

Perhaps the British should try to bake bread by themselves, which can probably make their dustbins lighter.

1. What can we infer from the passage?

A．Bread plays an important part in British diet.	B．Different British people like different foods.
C．Bread will become less popular in Britain.	D．Bread is the favorite food for the British.

2. If a British boss says to his workers “Please bring your loaves here,” he ________.

A．wants his workers to eat healthily	B．advises his workers to buy more bread
C．asks his workers to work more cleverly	D．promises to give his workers more money

3. Mark Boyle believes that the British throw away much bread mainly because ________.

A．they are tired of eating bread	B．they are too rich to value bread
C．they don’t like the taste of bread	D．they don’t put any energy into making bread

4. Many British people fail to make bread by themselves at home because ________.

A．they are very busy	B．they don’t earn much money
C．they become lazier than before	D．they don’t know how to bake bread