寒假轻松衔接Unit 2 Let's celebrate!复习巩固 2023-2024学年高一英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

复习巩固:(8)Unit 2 Let's celebrate!——2023-2024学年高一英语外研版(2019)寒假轻松衔接 一、填空题 1.He admitted _(cheat) in the exam and said he regretted doing that. 2.The _(retire) old man enjoys painting and planting some flowers in his daily life. 3.China is making efforts _(promote) the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. 4.The students are busy making preparations for the lecture because they will take part in the _(compete). 5.Zhang Zhongjing _(honour) as a master doctor since the Eastern Han Dynasty. 6.All tobacco(烟草) products are required to carry a health _(warn). 7.Let's buy some _(decorate) for the coming Spring Festival, and our daughter will surely like them. 8.The places of interest in Beijing are so _(attract) that many visitors from different places come to visit them every day. 9.The machine has been used for many years. No wonder it doesn't work well _(occasion). 10.In recent years, the problems which are caused by the _(equal) of education opportunity have attracted the public's attention. 二、阅读理解 Like most of us, I try to be mindful of food that goes to waste. The arugula(芝麻菜) was to make a nice green salad, rounding out a roast chicken dinner. But I ended up working late. Then friends called with a dinner invitation. I stuck the chicken in the freezer. But as days passed, the arugula went bad. Even worse, I had unthinkingly bought way too much;I could have made six salads with what I threw out. In a world where nearly 800 million people a year go hungry, "food waste goes against the moral grain," as Elizabeth Royte writes in this month's cover story. It's jaw-dropping how much perfectly good food is thrown away—from "ugly" (but quite eatable) vegetables rejected by grocers to large amounts of uneaten dishes thrown into restaurant garbage cans. Producing food that no one eats wastes the water, fuel, and other resources used to grow it. That makes food waste an environmental problem. In fact, Royte writes, "if food waste were a country, it would be the third lar