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Book 3 Unit 2 Healthy eating
语言知识·精准练
Ⅰ.完形填空(建议用时16′)
(2021·宁波质检)
There are lots of ways to raise awareness for a cause.Usually,the 1 the idea is,the more it gets noticed.And that’s precisely why one 2 Frenchman has caught our attention.
Baptiste Dubanchet is biking across Europe,surviving 3 on discarded(丢弃的) food.The three-month,1,900-mile journey from Paris to Warsaw is Dubanchet’s 4 of raising awareness of food waste in Europe and throughout the world.
As you can 5 ,the trip is no piece of cake.While restaurants 6 tons of food each year,much of it remains inaccessible because of 7 garbage containers,health regulations,or business policies.Only about one in ten places 8 him food that would otherwise be discarded.For legal 9 ,most restaurants have a policy against 10 food waste.“Some people have even 11 their jobs by giving me food,” Dubanchet said.
What’s 12 interesting is the attitude various cities have towards Dubanchet’s cause.Berlin has been the 13 while the most difficult was the Czech town of Pilsen.There,he had to 14 at some 50 different stores or restaurants before finding food.The 15 is all the more serious when you consider the 16 exercise required to bike from France to Poland.
“I have to get food 17 because after all the biking I am tired and I need the 18 ,” Dubanchet explained.“Is my 19 full or empty? That is the most important thing,not what I am eating.”
He aims to 20 his journey by mid-July.With any luck,he’ll turn a few more heads in the process.
语篇解读 本文讲述了法国人Baptiste Dubanchet一路骑自行车穿越欧洲,途中以丢弃的食物为生,试图通过他的行为,来唤起人们对食物浪费现象的关注。
1.A.cleverer B.older
C.stranger D.simpler
答案 C
解析 根据下文中的“the more it gets noticed”可知,此处是“the+比较级...,the+比较级...(越……,就越……)”结构,语意表示“想法越不寻常,就越能引起人们的关注”。
2.A.garbage-eating B.sports-loving
C.food-wasting D.law-breaking
答案 A
解析 根据下文中的“on discarded(丢弃的) food”和全文可知,Baptiste Dubanchet一路靠丢弃的食物为生,由此可知,他是个“吃垃圾的人”。
3.A.secretly B.finally
C.entire