克服食物浪費
——變“廢”為寶

山東 孫啟祿

主題語境：飲食 篇幅：339詞 關鍵詞：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A.Its menu is out of date.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.

語篇解碼

為了號召人們節約食物，舊金山的一家餐館利用農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

語篇單詞restaurantn.飯店 wasten.廢物v.浪費 previouslyadv.以前 appealingadj.吸引人的strugglev.掙扎 opportunityn.機會 mainlyadv.主要地 requestn.要求 challengen.挑戰 capturev.捕獲；得到 designn.設計 includev.包括 removev.清除掉meaningfuladj.有意義的 inspirev.鼓舞重要短語throw away 扔掉 a couple of 幾個；一對 food waste 食物浪費 deal with 應對；處理focus on 專注于 adapt to 適應 turn...into...把……變成……play a role in 在……中起作用 climate change 氣候變化

Ⅱ.語句分析

1.That's because the ingredients depend in part on what farmers plan to throw away on any given day.這是因為這些原料在一定程度上取決于農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 weren't able to capture, mainly because food waste is unpredictable.我們發現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80左右;

2.可以適當增加細節，以使行文連貫。

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