Question

Food waste has become a big problem in China.

Zhou Jinsong, a canteen(食堂) manager at Central South University, said that students produce over 12 barrels(桶) of leftovers every day — each barrel stands at one meter in height. Zhou’s canteen is just one of several on the campus.

According to Xinhua News Agency, the food wasted by Chinese people equates to about 50 million tons of grain every year, or 10 percent of the country’s total annual grain production. This food could feed another 200 million people. What students waste every year could feed over 10 million people. Students nowadays are well protected by their families and hardly know how hard farmers work to provide them with the food they eat.

“Since the 1980s, when Chinese gradually became richer, food waste has been a subject of debate. But things have hardly changed over the years,” said Yu Changjiang, a sociologist at Peking University. “It’s the Chinese way of showing respect to friends, often referred as Mianzi.”

But rather than tradition, huge public spending on government banquets(宴会) is also causing food waste, said Zhou Xiaozheng from the sociology department at Renmin University of China. “It’s the result of widespread reception meals at government levels. It is also important that everyone thinks about how they can do their best to reduce food waste.”

1.Which of the following statements is not the reasons for food waste?

A．Students hardly know farmers’ hard work on the farm.

B．The government spends a large amount of money on government banquets.

C．Leaving some food after a banquet is the Chinese way to show respect to guests.

D．The food in the college canteen is not delicious.

2.Where can we probably read this passage?

A．In a newspaper.                         B．In a traffic report.

C．On a health website.                     D．In a story book.

Answer

1.D

2.A

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文主要讨论了中国大学中的食物浪费问题。

1.根据短文后两段描述，可知大学的食物不好吃不是浪费的原因，故选D。

2.这篇短文主要讨论的是中国大学中的浪费食物现象，最有可能出自一篇报纸，故选A。

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