Overcoming food waste—turn“waste”into treasure克服食物浪费
2023-07-10孙启禄
孙启禄
主題语境：饮食 篇幅：339词 关键词：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A. Its menu is out of date.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.
語篇解码
为了号召人们节约食物，旧金山的一家餐馆利用农民准备扔掉的蔬菜做成美味佳肴，这一举措受到了人们的欢迎。
语言学习
Ⅰ. 语料荟萃
Ⅱ. 语句分析
1. Thats because the ingredients depend in part on what farmers plan to throw away on any given day. 这是因为这些原料在一定程度上取决于农民计划在这一天扔掉什么。
【点石成金】本句是一个主从复合句。This is是主句，because引导的是表语从句，what farmers plan to throw away on any given day 作介词on的宾语。
2. We saw that there was so much waste that we werent able to capture， mainly because food waste is unpredictable. 我们发现有太多的过剩食物我们无法得到，主要是因为食物浪费是不可预测的。
【点石成金】本句是一个主从复合句。We saw是主句，第一个that引导的是宾语从句，so...that...引导的是结果状语从句，because引导的是原因状语从句。
语言运用
Ⅰ. 例句仿写
1. 我们生活在一个非常便捷的世界中。那是因为人工智能技术在很多情况下取代了我们。
We are living in a quite convenient world.___________________________________
2. 长城非常有名，每年都有数百万人来参观。
____________________________________millions of people come to visit it every year.
Ⅱ. 写作实践
假定你是校学生会主席李华，近期学生会决定号召全体学生开展拒绝食物浪费的活动，请你给你校英文报写一封倡议信，内容包括：
1. 食物浪费的危害；
2. 具体措施；
3. 鼓励全体同学行动起来。
注意：
1. 词数80左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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