一項幫助孩子們的活動

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為了保障農村和偏遠地區的學生有足夠的食物，Feed Appeal發起了一項幫助孩子們的活動。

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1Every single student at some small schools in remote Australian communities needs their school to provide them with food so they have enough to eat.

2On average across Australia, there has been a 40 percent increase in students coming to school without breakfast and lunch in the past 12 months, according to the Feed Appeal, which raises money to help charities feed more people in need. In some schools, teachers are buying food for students with their own money.

3Feed Appeal chief executive Katherine said about 70 percent of those currently seeking food relief were doing so for the first time because they were experiencing economic hardship because of the coronavirus pandemic. “COVID-19 has seen an increasing number of people seeking help to feed their families for the first time,” she said.

4Ms Gokavi-Whaley said many Australians were surprised to learn that one in eight students across the nation go to school without breakfast or lunch.

5“Unfortunately, the average number impacted in rural and regional communities is one in four students,” she said. “In some of the really remote communities, we've even had a handful of schools that said, ‘Look, we're basically feeding everybody’, because none of the students is coming to school with meals.”

6“For some students, the meals they are getting at school are probably the only guaranteed meal that they have.”

7Teachers reported that those who don't have enough to eat have greater difficulty concentrating, learning and managing their behaviour, feel stressed, upset and socially isolated and often appear unwell.

8To help students in rural and remote communities have enough to eat, the Feed Appeal is launching the One=One campaign so that Australia's school communities can be part of the solution. One=One means $1 will provide one meal to feed a hungry student in a regional or rural school. The Feed Appeal is calling on Australian schools to host a One=One fund-raising day with a total fund-raising goal of $100,000.

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Ⅰ. Difficult sentence in the text

To help students in rural and remote communities have enough to eat,the Feed Appeal is launching the One=One campaign so that Australia's school communities can be part of the solution. 為了讓農村和偏遠社區的學生吃飽，Feed Appeal正在發起One=One運動，以便澳大利亞的學校社區為解決問題盡一分力。

【點石成金】本句是一個復合句，句中的so that引導目的狀語從句；To help students in rural and...eat是不定式短語作目的狀語。

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provide sb with sth 給某人提供某物

on average 基本上；大體上；平均

in need 貧困的；在困難中

because of 由于

a handful of 少數