7.Too Good To Go,an app operating in the UK,allows users to order leftover food at a discount from restaurants,according lo the website.The goal is to help cut food waste.
Users simply log in,pick a restaurant,pay trough the app and then pick up their food at a set time-usually around closing or after peak meal times.Orders through the app cost between 2 British pounds (2.60)to3.80Britishpounds(about 5).Users aren't able to pick the food items,but they get an idea of the type of food that will be available,according to Business Green.
Users also have the option to give meals to people in need by donating 1 British pound or more through the app.More than l,l00 meals have been donated so far.
To ensure the entire experience is super eco-friendly.Too Good To Go provides recyclable takeout packaging to participating restaurants.
Restaurants using the app make extra money by selling food hat would otherwisehave been throw away.And Too Good To Go itself makes money by taking a fee from participating restaurants on each sale.
Founded in Denmark last year.Too Good To Go launched this year in the UK and is expanding to other countries.The app is available in Brighton.Birmingham,Manchester and Leeds,and will be in London later this month.
"Food waste just seems like one of the dumbest(愚蠢) problems we have in this world,"co-founder James Crummie told Business Green."The restaurant industry is waiting about 600,000 tonnes of food each year,and in the UK alone there are one million people on emergency food parcels from food banks.Why do we have these two massive social issues that are completely connected,yet there is not much going on to address them?"
Too Good To Go has already helped cut a significant amount of waste.So far,the app has saved 600 meals from landfills in the UK,reports Business Green.
29.Why is the app introduced into UK according to the passage?B
A.To help users find proper restaurants.
B.To reduce food waste in UK.
C.To help people in need of food.
D.To make orders of food much cheaper.
30.Which of the following statements are TRUE according to the passage?A
A.The app has made some progress in saving food.
B.The app has been used throughout UK by now.
C.You can make money if you are a customer.
D.The restaurants provide recyclable takeout packaging.
31.From what James Crummie said we know thatC.
A.It's stupid for the restaurant industry to waste so much food
B.Food bank should provide more food to people in need
C.People don't pay much attention to food problems
D.It's stupid trying to solve food problems by using the app
32.What's the main idea of the passage?D
A.How to use the app. B.Who benefit from the app.
C.Food waste is the biggest problem.D.Using an app can reduce food waste.
分析 本文是一篇說明文,介紹一款app的功能,第一段就說明了其目的,全文都圍繞如何使用這款app減少浪費展開.
解答 29.B細節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)第一段最后一句The goal is to help cut food waste.可知目的是幫助減少食物浪費.故選B.
30.A 細節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)文章最后一段可知A項正確.根據(jù)第四段Too Good To Go provides recyclable takeout packaging to participating restaurants.餐廳的外賣提供可回收包裝可知D項不正確;根據(jù)第五段Restaurants using the app make extra money by selling food hat would otherwisehave been throw away.使用APP餐廳賺額外的錢,靠賣食品的帽子也沒有被扔掉.可知C項不正確;根據(jù)第六段The app is available in Brighton.Birmingham,Manchester and Leeds,and will be in London later this month.該應用程序可在布萊頓,伯明翰,曼徹斯特和利茲,并將在本月晚些時候在倫敦.可知B項不正確.
31.C 細節(jié)推斷題.根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段James Crummie說的一段話,尤其是yet there is not much going on to address them然而,沒有多少事情要解決.可知C項正確.
32.D 主旨大意題.本文是一篇說明文,介紹一款app的功能,第一段就說明了其目的,全文都圍繞如何使用這款app減少浪費展開,因此選D項.A、B、C三項都是文章的部分內(nèi)容,不能概括全文.
點評 本文是一個科教類閱讀理解,題目涉及多道細節(jié)理解題,做題時結合原文和題目有針對性的找出相關語句進行仔細分析,結合選項選出正確答案.推理判斷題也是要在抓住關鍵句子的基礎上合理的分析才能得出正確答案,切忌胡亂猜測,一定要做到有理有據(jù).