Thursday阅读理解 C

Food waste is a big deal. According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, 28 percent of the world’s agriculture area is used to produce food. Much of that food finally goes to waste each year. But now, a new supermarket that only sells wasted food is dealing with the problem. The market takes food that comes from local restaurants and grocery stores and puts it on shelves. It sells it to customers who pay what they can.

The concept is due to a government program to reduce the amount of wasted food in the United States. Last year, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) set its goal to reduce the food waste for the first time, aiming to reduce the amount of wasted food by 50 percent. It aims to do so by 2030. This department expects that cutting just 15 percent of this waste in the United States would provide enough food for more than 25 million Americans per year. And hunger isn’t the only reason to reduce food waste: wasted food would produce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2, 二氧化碳) that is equal to that of one in four cars on the road worldwide. It also needs a quarter of the world’s freshwater and 300 million barrels (桶) of oil each year.

Food waste supermarkets aren’t the only tool in the fight against waste. There are people working to improve the strange-looking fruits and vegetables, so as to attract more people to buy them. Besides, there are plenty of good ways to buy and eat food that would otherwise be thrown out. Maybe it’s time to make the food waste supermarket concept common in the United States—a way that is added to the various ways not to put those perfectly good meals in garbage cans.

1. Why was the new supermarket built?

A. To solve the problem of restaurants.

B. To take good use of food in stores.

C. To reduce the amount of wasted food.

D. To help poor people get enough food.

2. What does the underlined “It” refer to in Paragraph 2?

A. The USDA.

B. The USDA’s goal.

C. A government program.

D. The amount of wasted food.

3. Besides hunger, wasted food may also cause ______.

A. the waste of paper in the world

B. the increasing death among people

C. the pollution of freshwater in the U.S.

D. the increasing amount of CO2 in the air

4. What does the author think of food waste supermarkets?

A. They should be encouraged to develop in the U.S.

B. They are not a good way to fight against food waste.

C. They are not as good as other ways to prevent food waste.

D. They should be taken as the only tool to reduce food waste.

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