Question

The term food "recovery" refers to the Collection, or recovery, of healthy food from farmers' fields, retail stores, or foodservice establishments for distribution to the poor and hungry. Food recovery programs operate across the United States and target many different levels of the food marketing system. A few are large operations with offices in many States, but most are small local programs that depend largely on the efforts of volunteers from the surrounding community.

Once surplus food has been “recovered” or prevented from going to waste, volunteers pick up and deliver the food to groups that serve the needy, either directly through neighborhood charitable organizations, such as food chambers and soup kitchens, or indirectly through food banks. In addition to providing additional quantities of food to hungry people, food recovery  efforts can also provide food banks with the ability to offer clients more variety and nutrients (營養(yǎng)) in their diets by adding fiber-rich fresh fruits and vegetables and grain products to the typical offerings of indefectible canned and boxed goods.

Food recovery also has benefits that extend beyond providing food to the needy. For example, the additional food supplied by recovery programs allows agencies that serve the disadvantaged to reallocate money to other needed services, money that they would have otherwise spent on food. These efforts also provide clean fields and tax savings for farmers who donate (捐贈) unharvested crops and reduce waste-removal fees for supermarkets and foodservice establishments.

Food recovery, however, is not without cost. Recovery operations face a number of logistical (后勤的) and financial obstacles in the course of turning "lost" food into food suitable for consumption. At times, these obstacles are quite powerful. They include locating food donors and making them aware of organizations that channel donated food to the needy; obtaining financial  resources for transporting, storing, and packaging donated foods; securing labor, whether paid or volunteer; and training those workers in safe food handling and preparation methods.

　　 1. Food recovery programs mainly aim at——.

　　　　 A. collecting money from donors to deal with the food waste problem

　　　　 B. collecting money from donors to provide food to the needy

　　　　 C. collecting money and healthy food to provide food to the needy

　　　　 D. collecting money and healthy food for charitable organizations

　　 2. In addition to providing food to the needy, food recovery programs also——.

　　      A. distribute money directly to the needy

　　　　  B. help farmers improve their productivity

　　　　  C. are involved in other charitable services

　　　　  D. help some agencies reduce food waste

　　 3. Which of the following is NOT the cost of food recovery mentioned in the passage?

　　　　  A. Publication for food recovery courses.

　　　　  B. Collecting money for recovery courses.

　　　　  C. Enrolling volunteers for recovery courses.

　　　　  D. Encountering some obstacles from the government.

　　 4. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

　　　　  A. Food recovery programs are mainly involved in charitable services.

　　　　  B. Food recovery programs are involved in promoting nutritional balance.

　　　　  C. All staff of Food recovery programs are volunteers without pay.

　　　　  D. Many supermarkets and farmers are involved in Food recovery programs.

 

Answer 1

答案：1C2C3D4B
解析：

1．C。根據(jù)第三段可得知食品回收的意義在于：1．providing food c0 the needy(向窮人提供救濟(jì)食品)；2．“the additional food supplied by recovery programs allows agencies that serve the disadvantaged t0 reallocate money to  other needed services，money that they would have otherwise spent on food．”(由回收項(xiàng)目提供的額外食品使得扶貧部門能夠?qū)⒃�本�?jì)劃用于購買食品的錢用于其他服務(wù)項(xiàng)目)。綜合這兩點(diǎn)可以判斷C項(xiàng)正確。     2．C。根據(jù)第1題的分析，由回收食品的第2點(diǎn)意義可以看出，食品回收能夠?qū)⑹∠聛淼腻X用于其他的服務(wù)項(xiàng)目，所以C項(xiàng)正確。     3．D。根據(jù)最后一段可以看出D項(xiàng)不正確，文章沒有提及來自政府方面的阻礙，只有后勤和財政阻礙，即A、B、C三項(xiàng)。     4．B。辨認(rèn)事實(shí)題。文章第一段最后一句說：“…depend largely on the efforts of volunteers…”即大多數(shù)是志愿者，但不能說是全部，所以C項(xiàng)錯誤。根據(jù)文章第一句可以判斷A、D兩項(xiàng)正確。根據(jù)第二段最后一句可以判斷B項(xiàng)正確。