专题01人物故事类-冲刺2021年高考英语阅读理解专项复习

冲刺2021年高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解 第一模块：人物故事类 Passage 1．（2021•龙岗区模拟） As an elementary school student in New York City， Robert Lee would stare in disbelief at his classmates throwing about half﹣eaten sandwiches after lunch. His Korean immigrant parents had taught him and his older brother not to waste food. While studying finance and accounting at New York University， Robert remembered this lesson and joined Two Birds One Stone， a food﹣rescue club on campus that delivered， five days a week， leftovers from the dinning hall to nearby homeless shelters. When Robert and fellow club member Lousia entered a college entrepreneurship （创业） contest， they proposed a slightly different idea for a food﹣rescue nonprofit group： They would gladly pick up one bag of leftover bagels or a single pot of soup， would operate seven days a week， and would be staffed entirely by volunteers. Their idea won the competition. With the ＄1，000 prize， they founded Rescuing Leftover Cuisine（RLC） in July 2013. In just the first few weeks， Robert's team delivered a donation of enough spaghetti and meatballs to feed 20 people in line at a New York City homeless shelter that had run out of food. Robert， Who had taken job as an analyst at J.P. Morgan， devoted his spare time to creating a network of New York City restaurants that agreed to donate food， and he enlisted volunteers to make food deliveries to homeless shelters. To date， RLC has distributed more than 250， 000 pounds of food in 12 cities around the country. Only a year into his finance job， Robert gave up his six﹣figure salary to focus on RLC. "I compared one hour of impact at J.P. Morgan to one hour at RLC， and the difference was just huge，" he says. He's now the group's only full﹣time employee. "One shelter recently told us that our donations allow them to provide entire dinners for more than 300 people， three nights a week，" Robert says. "Things like that make me glad I quit my job." （1）How did Robert feel about his classmates'