阅读理解：剩饭也能做成盲盒？ 2023届高考英语外刊阅读训练

23年高考英语外刊阅读训练——阅读理解：剩饭也能做成盲盒？ Lots of food gets tossed. These apps let you buy it, cheap. 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 decomposes and releases more methane. Too Good To Go has tried to gamify 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 priced at roughly three times that amount. The bags can be picked up at a certain time window. One complication is that, according to interviews with several companies selling on Too Good To Go, at least a few items for sale there aren't necessarily what buyers might think of as "food waste." A beverage company owner said he used the app to sell discontinued products, but also sold new flavors there in hopes of attracting new customers. 阅读理解 1. What is the concept behind apps like Too Good To Go and Flashfood? A. Restaurants and grocery stores sell food at a higher price. B. Customers buy leftover food at a higher price. C. Restaurants and grocery stores sell leftover food at a reduced price. D. Customers buy new and f