Unit 1 -基础版-同步讲义-2020-2021学年上海市南洋模范中学上教版高中英语第三册

高一必修三Unit1（上教版） 学习目标：掌握重点词汇和省略的用法，积累相关文化常识和背景知识。 引入： Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. access B. availability C. combined D. contribute E. improved F. insecurity G. investment H. extreme I. lack J. purchase K. unique On May 28th, we observe World Hunger Day. It is an effort to focus attention on the fact that despite a sufficient (31) ____ of food nearly everywhere, globally, some 21,000 people die every day from hunger or malnutrition. Although this is significantly fewer people than the numbers we saw a decade ago, hunger still kills more people than AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (32) ____. People do not go hungry because the world does not produce enough food for everyone. According to the World Hunger Education Service, over the past three decades, significant growth in food production, along with (33)____ access to food, helped reduce the percentage of chronically undernourished（长期营养不良的） people in developing countries from 34 percent to 15 percent. The principal problem is that many people in the world still do not have resources to (34) ____ or grow enough food. Indeed, hunger is a consequence of poverty, and also one of its causes. Hunger exists because many countries (35) ____ social safety nets; because in many countries’ women, although they do most of the farming, do not have as much (36) ____ as men to training, credit or land. Conflict, governance systems that do not encourage (37) ____ in agriculture, poor management of land and natural resources, lack of educational opportunity, displacement of small farmers by natural disasters, and financial and economic crises that eliminate jobs at the lowest levels, all (38) ____ toward creating conditions that push the poorest into hunger. Over the past decade, a global push to reduce hunger and (39) ____ poverty has marked some significan