A growing number of health, hunger, and sustainable (可持續(xù)的)agriculture groups today announced plans for Food Day-a nationwide campaign to change the way Americans eat and think about food.Food Day will encourage people around the country to sponsor or participate in activities that encourage Americans to “eat real” and support healthy, affordable food grown in a sustainable, humane way.
Organizers hope Food Day will inspire Americans to hold thousands of events in schools, college campuses, houses of worship and even in private homes aimed at fixing America’s food system.A Food Day event could be as small as a parent organizing a vegetable identification contest at a kindergarten class-or as massive as a rally(集會)in a city park, with entertainment and healthy food.Health departments, city councils and other policy makers could use Food Day to launch campaigns, hold hearings, or otherwise address communities food problems.
The campaign will advocate progress toward five central goals:
·Reducing diet-related disease by promoting healthy foods.The American diet is too low in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and too high in fatty meat, soft drinks and salty packaged and restaurant foods-contributing to hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year.
·Supporting sustainable farms and stopping subsidies to agribusiness.Billions of federal dollars a year would be better spent helping environmentally conscious family farmers than hugeagribusiness operations.
·Expanding access to food and alleviating hunger.Far too many Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from, or have access to fresh produce in their neighborhood.
·Reforming factory farms to protect animals and the environment.Farming of animals can and should be done without cruelty, and without degrading the quality of life.
·Curbing junk-food marketing to kids.Food companies should not be targeting children with foods that promote tooth decay, obesity and other health problems.
小題1:What is the best title of the text?
A.Food Day CampaignB.Eat Real and Keep fit
C.How to Observe Food DayD.Food Problems in the USA
小題2:What can we learn from Paragraph 2?
A.Food problems are not easy to deal with.
B.Food Day events should be held in public places.
C.Kindergarten kids are unable to identify vegetables.
D.People are invited to create their own Food Day events.
小題3:One of the aims of Food Day is to ____.
A.target children with junk foodB.operate more agribusiness
C.increase access to foodD.cancel a series of events
小題4:The underlined word "curbing" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to “          ”.
A.controllingB.enlargingC.evaluatingD.providing
小題5:We can infer from the text that _____.
A.Food Day will not help preserve natural resources.
B.Food Day can be an opportunity to solve food problems.
C.Food Day has so far achieved all the central goals.
D.there are different ideas and views about Food Day.

小題1:A
小題1:D
小題1:C
小題1:A
小題1:B

小題1:A主旨題:從文章第一段的句子:A growing number of health, hunger, and sustainable (可持續(xù)的)agriculture groups today announced plans for Food Day-a nationwide campaign to change the way Americans eat and think about food.可以看出文章主要講述的是食品日活動。選A。
小題1:D細節(jié)題:從文章第二段的句子:Organizers hope Food Day will inspire Americans to hold thousands of events in schools, college campuses, houses of worship and even in private homes aimed at fixing America’s food system.看出是邀請人們舉行食品日活動。
小題1:C·細節(jié)題:從文章倒數(shù)第二段的句子:Expanding access to food and alleviating hunger.看出一個目的是增加獲得食物的機會。選C。
小題1:A·猜詞題:從文章倒數(shù)第二段的句子:Curbing junk-food marketing to kids.可以推斷出這是控制的意思。選A。
小題1:B推理題:從文章的第二段的句子:Health departments, city councils and other policy makers could use Food Day to launch campaigns, hold hearings, or otherwise address communities food problems.看出可以通過這個活動,來解決食品問題。選B。
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