In China, a lot of food is wasted every year and the waste food is enough for 200 million people.

In restaurants or at home, people often order or cook ________ food. But they can’t eat it up. In schools, we can often see a lot of students throw food away after meals and they only eat the food they like.

Everyone is supposed to have enough food to eat. However, in some places, the food is ________ little that a lot of people died from hunger. Although China has tried hard to solve the ________ of hunger over the past thirty years, the job is not finished yet. Food is important to us all. We ________ live without food. So it is necessary for us to love food and try to eat up everything on our plates.

________ we eat in restaurants, we should pack up the leftovers (剩菜剩饭). We also need to tell other people to stop wasting food.

Do you eat rice every day? Rice is the most important food for people all over the world. ______ a survey, rice helps feed one third of the world’s population. Scientists say that China first ______ rice about 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. Now, rice is common in people’s daily ______. Rice can be cooked in many ways. Snacks made ______ rice are very delicious. And rice is also a popular food on festivals. People make New Year cakes with sticky rice every Spring Festival.

China has the ______ population in the world. In order to feed more people, Chinese great scientist Yuan Longping led the Super Rice Program in 1996. Today half of China’s rice plants are Yuan’s Super Rice.

How’s your summer vacation going? I’m having fun in Shanghai, China. I am sitting in a ________ now. It is big and there are about 50 tables in it. I’m ________ some tofu and a small bowl of mutton noodles ________ carrots. I’m also ________ some black tea. I will _________ 50 yuan for the meal. The dumplings here look good, and I will eat ________ next time. The ________ here is very good. The noodles and the tofu are ________, and the vegetables are fresh, ________ the tea isn’t very good. There are also many ________ of fruit ice-cream in the restaurant. The people in the restaurant use chopsticks to ________ meals. I ________ use them and I’m learning ________ to use them. It is very interesting. I think it will take me a long time to ________ the meal. I will go back to New York next week. See you ________.

Yours,

Sally