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Lots of Food Gets Tossed. These Apps Let You Buy It, Cheap.

很多食物被丢掉浪费了，有些手机应用能让你以低廉价格买到它们。

【外刊导读】

美国一家名为Too Good To Go 的公司开发了一款新的APP，将餐馆和杂货店没有卖出的剩余食物放在APP上售卖，每个“惊喜袋”售价为4.99 美元或 5.99 美元。

【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。）

Every Sunday at 2 p.m., Marisela Godinez, the owner of El Mesón Tequilería, a Mexican restaurant in Austin, Texas, used to fill a 12-gallon bucket, plus another half-bucket, with leftover food from the restaurant’s all-you-can-eat brunch buffet. “We threw out a lot of food,” she said.

But a few months ago Ms. Godinez signed up to use an app called Too Good To Go. Now, 10 customers pick up “surprise bags” of her leftovers for $5.99 each, and she sends far fewer leftovers to the landfill .

Around the country, apps that connect customers to businesses with leftover food have begun to spread. The concept is simple: Restaurants and grocery stores throw away huge amounts of food every day. Rather than trash it, apps like Too Good To Go and Flashfood help businesses sell it at a reduced price. They claim that the businesses and buyers are helping the environment because the food would otherwise become food waste, a big contributor to climate change.

Food production itself is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for between a quarter and a third of global emissions. Each step of the process — growing, harvesting, moving, processing, packaging, storing and preparing food — releases carbon dioxide, methane and other planet-warming gases. When the food is wasted, so are all those emissions.In addition, once unused food reaches landfills, it breaks down and releases more methane.

Too Good To Go has tried to gamify (游戏化) buying leftover food. In the United States, customers in 12 cities can browse restaurants and stores, then reserve "surprise bags" that typically cost about $4 to $6 and contain food that would have been originally priced at roughly three times that amount. The bags can be picked up at a certain time window.

According to interviews with several companies selling on Too Good To Go, at least a few items for sale there aren't necessarily what buyers might think of as "food waste." A beverage company owner said he used the app to sell discontinued products, but also sold new flavors there in hopes of attracting new customers.

【链接高考】 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Around the country, apps 1.         connect customers to businesses with leftover food have begun to spread. The concept is simple: Restaurants and grocery stores throw away huge 2.         (amount) of food every day. Rather than trash it, apps like Too Good To Go and Flashfood help businesses sell it 3.         a reduced price. They claim that the businesses and buyers are helping the environment 4.          the food would otherwise become food waste, a big contributor to climate change.Food production 5.        (it) is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, 6.        (account) for between a quarter and 7.         third of global emissions.  Each step of the process — growing, harvesting, moving, processing, packaging, storing and preparing food — 8.        (release) carbon dioxide, methane and other planet-warming gases. When the food 9.         (waste), so are all those emissions.In addition, once unused food reaches landfills, it breaks down and releases more methane.In the United States, customers in 12 cities can browse restaurants and stores, then reserve "surprise bags" that typically cost about $4 to $6 and contain food that would have been 10.        (origin) priced at roughly three times that amount.

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1.that 考查定语从句。分析句子结构，此处是一个定语从句，句中缺主语，故用关系代词。先行词apps指物，故填that/which。

2.amounts 考查名词。固定搭配 amounts of 表示“大量的”。

3.at考查介词。固定搭配 at....price 表示“以……价格”。

4.because 考查连词。根据句意“商家和消费者这样做有助于环境保护，因为不然的话，这些食品就会变成食物垃圾，成为气候变化的一大元凶”，此处是一个原因状语从句，故填because。

5.itself 考查代词。此处反身代词充当同位语，起强调作用。

6.accounting 考查非谓语动词。分析句子成分，is 作谓语，account 作非谓语，表主动，故用现在分词。

7.a 考查冠词。分数表达法：分子用基数词，分母用序数词。A third of 表示“三分之一”。

8.releases 考查谓语动词。根据主语Each step of the process 可知，此处用动词单三式。

9.is wasted考查谓语动词。the food 做主语，谓语动词单三式；且食物是“被”浪费，故填is wasted。

10.originally 考查副词。此处副词修饰动词 be priced。

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