专题 27 剩饭盲盒--2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (26) Lots of Food Gets Tossed. These Apps Let You Buy It, Cheap. 很多食物被丢掉浪费了，有些手机应用能让你以低廉价格买到它们。 【外刊出处】《纽约时报》 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/climate/food-waste-app.html 【外刊导读】 美国一家名为Too Good To Go 的公司开发了一款新的APP，将餐馆和杂货店没有卖出的剩余食物放在APP上售卖，每个“惊喜袋”售价为4.99 美元或 5.99 美元。 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） Every Sunday at 2 p.m., Marisela Godinez, the owner of El Mesón Tequilería, a Mexican restaurant in Austin, Texas, used to fill a 12-gallon bucket, plus another half-bucket, with leftover food from the restaurant’s all-you-can-eat brunch buffet. “We threw out a lot of food,” she said. But a few months ago Ms. Godinez signed up to use an app called Too Good To Go. Now, 10 customers pick up “surprise bags” of her leftovers for $5.99 each, and she sends far fewer leftovers to the landfill . Around the country, apps that connect customers to businesses with leftover food have begun to spread. The concept is simple: Restaurants and grocery stores throw away huge amounts of food every day. Rather than trash it, apps like Too Good To Go and Flashfood help businesses sell it at a reduced price. They claim that the businesses and buyers are helping the environment because the food would otherwise become food waste, a big contributor to climate change. Food production itself is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for between a quarter and a third of global emissions. Each step of the process — growing, harvesting, moving, processing, packaging, storing and preparing food — releases carbon dioxide, methane and other planet-warming gases. When the food is wasted, so are all those emissions.In addition, once unused food reaches landfills, it breaks down and releases more methane. Too Good To Go has tried to gamify (游戏化) buying leftover food. In the United States, customers in 12 cities can browse restaurants and stores, then reserve "surprise bags" that typically cost about $4 to $6 and contain food that would have been originally pric