1 . According to a research, more than 130 billion pounds of uneaten food go to waste in Laura’s county each year. That is about 30% of the yearly food supply (供应). It is a sad fact, especially when you consider how many families and homeless people are in hunger.

When Laura saw her school dining hall throw away food that was not eaten at all every day, she came up with an idea. She started a project to help her school dining hall to give away uneaten food to homeless shelters (避难所) in her community. In the past three years, the same protect has spread to other schools and some fast food restaurants throughout the city. The project is called Feed & Find, which has already fed thousands of people in her city.

How does it work? Through an app, Feed & Find matches local homeless shelters with school dining halls and restaurants that have uneaten food to provide. When dining halls or restaurants have uneaten food left, they can use the app to share the information about the food. A truck driver working for the project is then sent to pick it up and take it to a shelter.

Pretty cool, right? It’s not surprising that people in other cities have got in touch with Laura, to hoping that she could help develop similar projects for their communities.

Some people, however, dread the safety of the uneaten food. They think such food may not be clean enough. Still, this project is a clever way to help solve the problem of food waste and it helps those in need.

1. The numbers in Paragraph 1 tell us ________.

A．some people are poor	B．food waste is serious
C．the population is large	D．the research is interesting

2. Laura’s project first got food from ________.

A．her school dining hall	B．her family
C．a fast food restaurant	D．a homeless shelter

3. People in other cities would like Laura to ________.

A．find a truck driver	B．visit their communities
C．give away food to them	D．help develop projects like hers

4. The underlined word “dread” in paragraph 5 means _______.

A．ways

B．secrets

C．worries

D．decisions

3 . The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and the environment. These findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.

David Tillman, a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, America, examined information from 100 countries to identify what people ate and how diet affected health. He noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations industrialized, population increased and earnings rose, more people began to adopt what has been called the Western diet.

The Western diet is high in sugar, fat, oil and meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter and sicker. David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk of non-infectious diseases like diabetes (糖尿病)and heart disease.

Unfortunately, when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these health problems, especially in developing countries in Asia. China is an example where the number of diabetes cases has been jumping from less than one percent to 10 percent of the population as it began to industrialize over a 20-year period. And that is happening all across the world, in Nigeria and so on.

And, a diet bad for human beings is also bad for the environment. As the world’s population grows, more forests and tropical areas will become farmland for crops or grasslands for cattle. We are likely to have more greenhouse gas in the future from agriculture than that coming out of all forms of transportation right now.

Mr. Tillman calls the link between diet, the environment and human health, “a dilemma”, a problem offering a difficult choice. He says one possible solution is leaving the Western diet behind.

1. David Tillman believes that          .

A．diet, the environment and human health are closely connected

B．the Western diet is the only choice as nations industrialized

C．people in tropical areas are more likely to have heart disease

D．traditional diet is more balanced than the Western diet

2. According to the passage, more greenhouse gas might be given off in the future from       .

A．transportation	B．developing countries
C．agriculture	D．developed countries

3. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Nigeria has the largest number of diabetes cases.

B．Overweight people are at higher risk of infectious diseases.

C．The examined information comes from developing countries.

D．Industrialization contributes to the spread of the Western diet.

4. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．Call on us to protect the environment.

B．Warn us of the danger of the Western diet.

C．Remind us of the importance of health.

D．Advise us to have a balanced diet.