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【題目】 Divided into two groups, the students were busy in a kitchen at the High Point Community Center in Seattle, US. Instructor Asia Faircloth taught one group how to cook vermicelli (意式細(xì)面) bowls with chicken. The other group joined Jacob Alhadeff to practice new skills with knives.

The center’s four-week cooking course was centered on cooking and food justice. To teach more people about the importance of having nutritious food, the city had students from low-income families through social media. Each student received 100 dollars (700 yuan) at the end of the course.

“Low-income people are more likely to feel the effects of food injustice,” Alhadeff said. “So providing cooking instruction and putting money back in the pockets of our community members seemed like a no-brainer (容易做的決定).”

Alhadeff and Faircloth started the course not only to teach kids how to cook, but also to encourage them to think more deeply about food. They were shown how to connect personal choices with the economic cost of obesity, climate change and global food supplies.

Tahir Adams and Najah Goodrich, two juniors at Seattle Lutheran High School, joined the classes. They talked about how farmers have a hard time putting food on their own kitchen tables while growing fresh products for the rest of the country. They were proud of the new skills and recipes they learned.

“We started with more personal things, then looked at the bigger, global view ... like, how climate change is related to food,” Adams said. “It can be really bad when droughts turn places into actual deserts and droughts cause civil unrest.”

【1】What do we know about the cooking course?

A.It focused only on cooking.B.It was held in Seattle, US.

C.Its students were from wealthy families.D.Each student got 100 dollars at the beginning of the course.

【2】In Paragraph 3, Alhadeff________.

A.explains the standards for choosing studentsB.complains that community members are stupid

C.proves that it’s a good idea to give students free moneyD.explains why the course provides cooking instruction

【3】In the course, students were ________.

A.taught how to reduce obesityB.taught to focus on problems about food safety

C.taught to make their own choicesD.encouraged to think more deeply about food

【4】What can we conclude from what Adams and Goodrich said?

A.They learned nothing from the course.B.They learned recipes from farmers.

C.The course widened their views on food.D.The course taught them how to solve droughts.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】D

【4】C

【解析】

文章大意：文章介紹了美國西雅圖開展的不同尋常的烹飪課程，它不僅僅教會(huì)學(xué)生烹飪，更鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生開闊思維。

【1】

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段第一句“Divided into two groups, the students were busy in a kitchen at the High Point Community Center in Seattle, US.” 學(xué)生們分成兩組，在美國西雅圖的高點(diǎn)社區(qū)中心的廚房里忙碌著�？芍�這個(gè)烹飪課程在美國西雅圖開展，故答案為B。

【2】

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段Alhadeff說“Low-income people are more likely to feel the effects of food injustice”(低收入人群更容易感受到食品不公平的影響)和“So providing cooking instruction and putting money back in the pockets of our community members seem like a no-brainer”(因此，提供烹飪指導(dǎo)和把錢放回我們社區(qū)成員的口袋似乎是一個(gè)無需動(dòng)腦筋的事情),故可知他們開展烹飪指導(dǎo)的原因是為了減少窮人受到的食物不公�？芍�，故答案為D。

【3】

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第四段第一句“Alhadeff and Faircloth started the course not only to teach kids how to cook, but also to encourage them to think more deeply about food.” Alhadeff和Faircloth開設(shè)這門課程不僅是為了教孩子們?nèi)绾闻腼�，而且鼓�?lì)他們對食物有更深入的思考�？芍�，這個(gè)課程不僅教學(xué)生如何烹飪，而且還鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生在食物方面進(jìn)行深入的思考，選項(xiàng)D符合，其他三項(xiàng)未提及。故答案為D。

【4】

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Adams和Goodrich的話“We started with more personal things, then looked at the bigger, glibal view... like, how climae change is related to food,”(我們從更私人的事情開始，然后著眼于更大的、更流暢的觀點(diǎn)……比如氣候變化與食物的關(guān)系)和“It can really bad when droughts turn places into actual deserts and droughts cause civil unrest. ”(當(dāng)干旱把一些地方變成真正的沙漠，干旱導(dǎo)致社會(huì)動(dòng)蕩時(shí)，情況會(huì)變得非常糟糕。)可知他們一開始談?wù)摰膯栴}比較小，然后逐漸的擴(kuò)大，討論更大的觀點(diǎn)，故可以推斷出這樣的課程開闊了他們的認(rèn)知，選項(xiàng)C符合。故答案為C。