Food waste is a big problem in America. So is hunger.
The National Institute of Health estimates that, as a _______, Americans waste 40 percent of the food we produce. At the same time, roughly 50 million people in the US don't have _______ enough food. That's more than 15 percent of the _______—or nearly one in six people.
Food waste is not only a _______ cost, but it causes environmental problems. When cut off from oxygen, food creates methane(甲烷) gas and _______ global warming. The fuel that is burned to process and transport it _______ adds to the environmental cost.
That was why Komal Ahmad, a 25-year-old university student, came up with the _______ for Feeding Forward, a mobile phone app that _______ companies and event planners to donate _______ food to people in need—with an easy click of the__________
__________a football stadium filled to its brim(边缘),” Ahmad said. “That's __________ food goes wasted every single day in America.”
Through the app, people ________ Feeding Forward drivers where they're located so the drivers can ________ the food, which is then quickly taken to where it's ________most. Within a year of the app's launch, ________600,000 homeless people have been fed with about 690,000 pounds of food redistributed, which would have ________ ended up in the landfill(垃圾场).
Feeding Forward solves the problems of food waste and ________ At present,it only serves the San Francisco Bay Area, but that could ________ “We are trying to make the Bay Area a case study to say ‘Hey, if it works ________ , it can work anywhere ,’” Ahmad said.
【小题1】A.team | B.nation | C.generation | D.community |
【小题2】A.access to | B.time for | C.plans for | D.interest in |
【小题3】A.food | B.homeless | C.consumers | D.population |
【小题4】A.social | B.productive | C.special | D.low |
【小题5】A.points to | B.refers to | C.contributes to | D.devotes to |
【小题6】【小题7】A.purpose | B.view | C.idea | D.conclusion |
【小题8】A.urges | B.persuades | C.requires | D.allows |
【小题9】A.extra | B.wasted | C.rare | D.saved |
【小题10】A.television | B.bell | C.button | D.computer |
【小题11】A.Compare | B.Build | C.Choose | D.Imagine |
【小题12】A.how | B.how much | C.where | D.why |
【小题13】A.recommend | B.convince | C.ask | D.tell |
【小题14】A.collect | B.deliver | C.check | D.preserve |
【小题15】A.stored | B.sold | C.needed | D.finished |
【小题16】A.almost | B.still | C.merely | D.hardly |
【小题17】A.ever | B.eventually | C.instead | D.otherwise |
【小题18】A.pollution | B.hunger | C.overpopulation | D.unemployment |
【小题19】A.succeed | B.continue | C.change | D.work |
【小题20】A.worldwide | B.here | C.anytime | D.soon |