Overcoming food waste—turn“waste”into treasure克服食物浪費

孫啟祿

主題語境：飲食 篇幅：339詞 關鍵詞：fight， food， waste

1 For the past six months， the menuhas changed at a San Francisco restaurantcalled Shuggies Trash Pie. Thatsbecause the ingredients depend inpart on what farmers plan to throwaway on any given day. The restaurantsmission is to fight food waste.

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

3“We saw that there was so much waste that we werent able to capture， mainly be?cause 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 lotmore of that.”So they opened a restaurant.

4 Shuggies Trash Pie opened in April， 2022， and after a couple of months of dealingwith the usual challenges of starting a restaurant， the founders say theyre now able to focuson adapting to their suppliers.“We go to the farmer market every Saturday， filling our carand roof rack with things，”Abe says.

5 Inside the restaurant， what you notice first isnt the mission but the design， withbright green and yellow furniture including kitsch handshapedchairs. The restaurant turnsfood 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 theres so much to say that itdoesnt all get included. At the bottom， under a heading that says“food waste paradise”，they explain why its so important to do this. Between 30% and 40% of all the food grownin the country is wasted. Thats not just a landfill problem， but a climate problem， andremoving that waste could play a meaningful role in fighting climate change.

6 The founders want to help change what diners are willing to eat. They also want to inspireother 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A. Its menu is out of date.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 customerstastes.

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 Shuggies 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 peoples eating habits.

D. To make their restaurant more popular.

語篇解碼

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

語言學習

Ⅰ. 語料薈萃

Ⅱ. 語句分析

1. Thats because the ingredients depend in part on what farmers plan to throw away on any given day. 這是因為這些原料在一定程度上取決于農(nóng)民計劃在這一天扔掉什么。

【點石成金】本句是一個主從復合句。This is是主句，because引導的是表語從句，what farmers plan to throw away on any given day 作介詞on的賓語。

2. We saw that there was so much waste that we werent able to capture， mainly because food waste is unpredictable. 我們發(fā)現(xiàn)有太多的過剩食物我們無法得到，主要是因為食物浪費是不可預測的。

【點石成金】本句是一個主從復合句。We saw是主句，第一個that引導的是賓語從句，so...that...引導的是結(jié)果狀語從句，because引導的是原因狀語從句。

語言運用

Ⅰ. 例句仿寫

1. 我們生活在一個非常便捷的世界中。那是因為人工智能技術在很多情況下取代了我們。

We are living in a quite convenient world.___________________________________

2. 長城非常有名，每年都有數(shù)百萬人來參觀。

____________________________________millions of people come to visit it every year.

Ⅱ. 寫作實踐

假定你是校學生會主席李華，近期學生會決定號召全體學生開展拒絕食物浪費的活動，請你給你校英文報寫一封倡議信，內(nèi)容包括：

1. 食物浪費的危害；

2. 具體措施；

3. 鼓勵全體同學行動起來。

注意：

1. 詞數(shù)80左右;

2. 可以適當增加細節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

Dear fellow students，

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