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Experts in the food industry are thinking a lot about trash these days. Food waste has been a serious problem for restaurants an

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问题     Experts in the food industry are thinking a lot about trash these days. Food waste has been a serious problem for restaurants and grocery stores—with millions of tons lost along the way as crops are hauled hundreds of miles, stored for weeks in refrigerators and prepared on busy restaurant assembly lines.
    Restaurants, colleges, hospitals and other institutions are compensating for the rising costs of waste in novel ways. " We have all come to work with this big elephant in the middle of the kitchen, and the elephant is this ’ It’s okay to waste’ belief system," said Andrew Shackman, president of LeanPath, a company that helps restaurants cut back food waste.
    Freshman students at Virginia Tech were surprised this year when they entered two of the campus’s biggest dining halls to find there were no cafeteria trays. " You have to go back and get your silverware and your drink, but it’s not that different," said Caitlin Mewborn, a freshman. "It’s not a big deal. You take less food, and you don’t eat more than you should. " Getting rid of trays has cut food waste by 38 percent at the cafeterias, said Denny Cochrane, manager of Virginia Tech’s sustainability program.
    Before the program began, students often grabbed whatever looked good at the buffet(自助餐), only to find at the table that their eyes were bigger than their stomachs, he said.
    That same phenomenon often happens at Oregon’s Portland International Airport. Busy travelers often discard half-eaten meals into trash cans, adding dozens of tons of waste that the airport must pay the city to haul away. Now the airport is working on a three-year-old program to install food-only trash cans. The food waste is collected in biodegradable(能生物降解的)bags and given to the city to use as compost(堆肥), said Stan Jones, environmental protection manager at the airport.
    Besides being environmentally friendly, the changes may save the airport money. It costs about $ 82 to have one ton of trash hauled from the airport to the city landfill. But food waste costs about $ 48 a ton to haul. Last year, the airport was able to separate 165 tons of food from the trash stream, which would add up to $5,600 in hauling fees alone.
According to the first paragraph, ______.
选项 A、lots of food are wasted as crops are hauled from far away
B、food waste is the most serious problem for restaurants and stores
C、experts put forward many proposals to solve the issue of trash
D、busy restaurant assembly lines produce millions of tons of trash
答案A
解析 主旨大意题。本题考查原文第一段的主旨大意。原文第一段提到，农作物从几百英里外运来，在冰箱储存数周后，才在忙乱的餐馆流水线上用来备餐，这个过程中产生了数百万吨的食品垃圾，故答案为A)。B)“食品垃圾是餐馆和食品杂货店面临的最严重的问题”夸大了原文意思，原文并未使用最高级，故排除；C)“专家针对解决垃圾问题提出了许多建议”，原文只是提到专家在这方面思考得比较多，并未提出建议，故排除；D)“繁忙的餐馆流水线上产生了数百万吨的垃圾”是对原文的断章取义，原文提到是在运输、储存、备餐的整个过程中产生了数百万吨的食品垃圾，故排除。
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