3.In a recent report,a new plan of offers a road map to the U.S.to reduce food waste by 20% within a decade while also creating thousands of jobs and could save consumers billions of dollars.
The report,which comes just months after a federal(聯(lián)邦政府的)action aimed at cutting food waste by 50% by 2030,offers a 27-point list of ways to address the problem.
One of the three categories of food waste solutions is prevention.The measures put forward in the report mainly center on preventing food waste in the first place.The report suggests food companies should adjust packaging to discourage waste.Portions(一份的量)should be smaller and packaging should be designed to prevent food from going bad.Distributors,those who supply shops and companies with food,should use new technology to reduce food waste during transport.Prevention methods would help save roughly $8 billion and prevent 2.6 million tons of food from being wasted,according to the report.
Recovery solutions focus on new methods of taking food that would otherwise be thrown away and using it for other purposes before it goes bad.The report also recommends providing tax encouragement for people who donate food to the poor,softening regulations on food donations and processing food to prolong its life.
The report also encourages recycling solutions-recycling food once it is no longer edible.
Food waste causes a lot of related problems from food insecurity to climate change.At present an average American household of four wastes more than two million calories of food every year.At the same time,other American families remain food-insecure and rely on cheap and unhealthy food.Carbon dioxide produced in the process of growing crops and raising animals such as cows and sheep also speeds up global warming.Nearly 10% of the greenhouse gas in the U.S.relates to agriculture,according to a report from the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Problems connected with food waste are only expected to become more serious in coming years as the global population grow quickly and climate change reduces crop production.Crop production in some areas of the world faces a nearly 20% reduction thanks to climate change.
The new report offers a path to approaches to meeting the federal government food waste goal.The government action-called for by the EPA and the U.S.Department of Agriculture-offered high ambition but few important details.
"Let's feed people,"said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy announcing the goal,"Not landfills."
62.We can learn from the passage that the report suggestsC.
A.reducing food waste to half of its present level in 2030
B.a(chǎn)dvancing packaging for convenience during transport
C.a(chǎn)djusting portions to prevent food from being wasted
D.working out new direct trade routes for distributors
63.Which of the following can be viewed as a recovery solution?B
A.Reusing food that cannot be eaten any more.
B.Making dog food out of unpopular human food.
C.Giving quality food to school children for free.
D.Taxing those who don't wasted food at a lower rate.
64.Which of the following may be the direct cause of reduction in crop production?C
A.Growing population.
B.Food waste.
C.Climate change.
D.Food insecurity.
65.According to the passage,the author probably thinks the new report isC.
A.debatable
B.imperfect
C.helpful
D.a(chǎn)mbitious.
分析 本文主要講述了根據(jù)美國的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查顯示,在人口日益增加糧食緊張的現(xiàn)在,我們有很多種方法來減少食物的浪費(fèi),并且結(jié)果顯示,那些方法都是行之有效的.
解答 62.C 細(xì)節(jié)題.根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容Portions(一份的量)should be smaller and packaging should be designed to prevent food from going bad.Distributors,those who supply shops and companies with food,should use new technology to reduce food waste during transport由此可知,一份的量應(yīng)該更小份并且包裝設(shè)計(jì)應(yīng)該阻止食物變質(zhì).向商店和公司供應(yīng)食品的批發(fā)商應(yīng)該用新科技減少食物的浪費(fèi).結(jié)合選項(xiàng),故答案為C
63.B 細(xì)節(jié)題.根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容Recovery solutions focus on new methods of taking food that would otherwise be thrown away and using it for other purposes before it goes bad.恢復(fù)方法主要集中在新的方法上,而這些新的方法是指在食物變質(zhì)前能夠利用它,使得它有其他的用途.結(jié)合選項(xiàng),B選項(xiàng)提到將不受歡迎的不美味的人類食物加工利用成狗食,故選B
64.C 細(xì)節(jié)題.根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容the global population grow quickly and climate change reduces crop production氣候變化會(huì)減少莊家產(chǎn)量,故選C
65.C 推理題.根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容Prevention methods would help save roughly $8 billion and prevent 2.6 million tons of food from being wasted,according to the report…The report also encourages recycling solutions-recycling food once it is no longer edible由此可知,作者認(rèn)為文中提到的各種方法是對減少浪費(fèi)是非常有用的.結(jié)合選項(xiàng),故選C
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