Qi Haoran, a Junior 1 student at High School Attached to Harbin Institute of Technology, was quite busy over the past winter vacation—and not just with homework. Qi, together with 10 other classmates made a volunteer group to call on people to join the Clean Your Plate Campaign (光盘行动).
The 11 students went to many restaurants and told people the importance of saving food.“Excuse me, do you know that 950 million people around the world still haven’t got enough to eat? Could you please not waste food?”They would say this kind of thing hundreds of times every day.
China in recent years has experienced serious problems with wasted food. CCTV reported in January that the food Chinese people waste every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year. It’s a tradition that Chinese people offer lots of food when they invite others to dinner. Many even feel that they will lose face if their guests have eaten all their food.
Luckily the campaign has got the support of many. In a restaurant in Xinjiang, the owner gives the guests who have eaten up all that they ordered a sticker. People can enjoy a free meal when they have 10 stickers. More than 750 restaurants in Beijing have begun to offer smaller dishes and encourage their guests to take leftovers(剩饭剩菜) home.
Wasting food is a serious problem around the world, not only in China. It’s said that 2 billion tons(吨) of food ends up as waste every year in our country. This is as much as half of all the food in the world. The UN Environment Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization held a“Think, Eat, Save” program on January 24 to help reduce food waste.
To reduce food waste is a big task, and it needs time. It’s important that everyone does their bit, just like Qi. Did you finish your meals today?
小题1:The Clean Your Plate Campaign calls on people to __________.
A．do volunteer work
B．work part time in restaurants
C．stop wasting food
D．wash their plates after dinner小题2:What did the restaurant in Xinjiang do to support the campaign?
A．The owner would have dinner with those who had eaten up their food.
B．It offered a free meal to the guests who had finished all their food ten times.
C．It gave stickers to the guests who ordered small dishes.
D．It encouraged customers to take leftovers home.小题3:From the passage , we can know that __________.
A．wasting food is a serious problem in China
B．Chinese people waste the most food in January
C．200 million Chinese people invite others to dinner every day
D．Chinese people usually don’t offer enough food to their guests小题4:You can probably read this passage _________.
A．in a science book
B．in a newspaper
C．in a tourist guide
D．in an advertisement