克服食物浪費(fèi)
——變“廢”為寶

山東 孫啟祿

主題語(yǔ)境：飲食 篇幅：339詞 關(guān)鍵詞：fight,food,waste

1For the past six months, the menu has changed at a San Francisco restaurant called Shuggie's Trash Pie.That's because the ingredients depend in part on what farmers plan to throw away on any given day.The restaurant's mission is to fight food waste.

2David Murphy and Kayla Abe are the founders of the restaurant.They previously started the Ugly Pickle (泡菜) Company, which makes snacks out of less appealing vegetables that farmers struggle to sell.While making pickles, they saw the opportunity to do more.

3“We saw that there was so much waste that we weren't able to capture,mainly because food waste is unpredictable.People would come to us every week with requests like,‘Can you pickle this?Can you use this in some way?’We wanted to be able to capture a lot more of that.”So they opened a restaurant.

4Shuggie's Trash Pie opened in April, 2022, and after a couple of months of dealing with the usual challenges of starting a restaurant,the founders say they're now able to focus on adapting to their suppliers.“We go to the farmer market every Saturday, filling our car and roof rack with things,”Abe says.

5Inside the restaurant, what you notice first isn't the mission but the design, with bright green and yellow furniture including kitsch hand-shaped chairs.The restaurant turns food waste into a party.The menu notes some of the unusual ingredients,like“withered(枯萎的)greens”and“not fully ripe tomatoes”,though Abe says there's so much to say that it doesn't all get included.At the bottom, under a heading that says“food waste paradise”,they explain why it's so important to do this.Between 30% and 40% of all the food grown in the country is wasted.That's not just a landfill problem, but a climate problem, and removing that waste could play a meaningful role in fighting climate change.

6The founders want to help change what diners are willing to eat.They also want to inspire other restaurants to change.

Reading Check

1.Why has the restaurant changed its menu?

A.Its menu is out of date.

B.It wants to fit the customers'tastes.

C.It wants to save money on the ingredients.

D.Some dishes rely on things farmers plan to throw away.

2.What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A.How Shuggie's Trash Pie was founded.

B.How serious food waste is in America.

C.How eagerly people want to make pickles.

D.How hard farmers sell their products.

3.What can we learn from the fourth paragraph?

A.Some Americans are lacking in food.

B.Food waste is a serious problem in the US.

C.Food waste contributes most to climate change.

D.American farmers throw away about one third of the food.

4.What is the real aim of the restaurant founders?

A.To fight climate change.

B.To inspire people to save food.

C.To change people's eating habits.

D.To make their restaurant more popular.

語(yǔ)篇解碼

為了號(hào)召人們節(jié)約食物，舊金山的一家餐館利用農(nóng)民準(zhǔn)備扔掉的蔬菜做成美味佳肴，這一舉措受到了人們的歡迎。

語(yǔ)言學(xué)習(xí)

Ⅰ.語(yǔ)料薈萃

語(yǔ)篇單詞restaurantn.飯店 wasten.廢物v.浪費(fèi) previouslyadv.以前 appealingadj.吸引人的strugglev.掙扎 opportunityn.機(jī)會(huì) mainlyadv.主要地 requestn.要求 challengen.挑戰(zhàn) capturev.捕獲；得到 designn.設(shè)計(jì) includev.包括 removev.清除掉meaningfuladj.有意義的 inspirev.鼓舞重要短語(yǔ)throw away 扔掉 a couple of 幾個(gè)；一對(duì) food waste 食物浪費(fèi) deal with 應(yīng)對(duì)；處理focus on 專(zhuān)注于 adapt to 適應(yīng) turn...into...把……變成……play a role in 在……中起作用 climate change 氣候變化

Ⅱ.語(yǔ)句分析

1.That's because the ingredients depend in part on what farmers plan to throw away on any given day.這是因?yàn)檫@些原料在一定程度上取決于農(nóng)民計(jì)劃在這一天扔掉什么。

【點(diǎn)石成金】本句是一個(gè)主從復(fù)合句。This is是主句，because引導(dǎo)的是表語(yǔ)從句，what farmers plan to throw away on any given day 作介詞on的賓語(yǔ)。

2.We saw that there was so much waste that we weren't able to capture, mainly because food waste is unpredictable.我們發(fā)現(xiàn)有太多的過(guò)剩食物我們無(wú)法得到，主要是因?yàn)槭澄锢速M(fèi)是不可預(yù)測(cè)的。

【點(diǎn)石成金】本句是一個(gè)主從復(fù)合句。We saw 是主句，第一個(gè)that 引導(dǎo)的是賓語(yǔ)從句，so...that...引導(dǎo)的是結(jié)果狀語(yǔ)從句，because引導(dǎo)的是原因狀語(yǔ)從句。

-語(yǔ)言運(yùn)用

Ⅰ.例句仿寫(xiě)

1.我們生活在一個(gè)非常便捷的世界中。那是因?yàn)槿斯ぶ悄芗夹g(shù)在很多情況下取代了我們。

We are living in a quite convenient world.___________________________

2.長(zhǎng)城非常有名，每年都有數(shù)百萬(wàn)人來(lái)參觀(guān)。

__________________________millions of people come to visit it every year.

Ⅱ.寫(xiě)作實(shí)踐

假定你是校學(xué)生會(huì)主席李華，近期學(xué)生會(huì)決定號(hào)召全體學(xué)生開(kāi)展拒絕食物浪費(fèi)的活動(dòng)，請(qǐng)你給你校英文報(bào)寫(xiě)一封倡議信，內(nèi)容包括：

1.食物浪費(fèi)的危害；

2.具體措施；

3.鼓勵(lì)全體同學(xué)行動(dòng)起來(lái)。

注意：

1.詞數(shù)80左右;

2.可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

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