首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Experts in the food industry are thinking a lot about trash these days. Food waste has been a serious problem for restaurants an
Experts in the food industry are thinking a lot about trash these days. Food waste has been a serious problem for restaurants an
admin
2014-08-29
41
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.
The program operated at Virginia Tech______.
选项
A、does not work on freshman students
B、has cut food waste at the cafeterias
C、makes students take more food at the buffet
D、makes students eat less than they should
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。本题考查有关弗吉尼亚科技大学运作的项目的细节。原文第三段提到,弗吉尼亚科技大学运作的项目就是取消食堂里的餐具托盘,这使得学生不得不回去取自己的餐具和饮料,因而吃的比以前少,浪费也随之减少。B)中和定位句都出现了cut food waste,故为答案。A)“对大一新生不起作用”和C)“使得学生从自助餐取走的食物更多”均和原文意思相反,故排除;D)“使学生比他们应该吃的要少”是对原文you don’t eat more than you should意思的曲解,原文的意思是这种措施使得学生不会多拿他们吃不完的食物,这一点从第四段中的their eyes were bigger than their stomachs也可以得到印证,故排除。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/tDv7777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
PastandPresentoftheMovieIndustryA)Thebeginningsofthemovieindustrycanbetracedbacktothe1800’s,developingmuch
WanttoKnowYourDiseaseRisk?CheckYourExposomeA)Whenitcomestohealth,whichismoreimportant,natureornurture?Youm
A、Theyhaveenoughtimeleft.B、Theyaregoingtothetrainstation.C、Themanwasworriedaboutthetime.D、They’llhavetospe
Britonsareincreasinglyentertainingguestsathomewithdinner,filmandkaraokenights,(1)______bytelevisionshowsoncookin
Britonsareincreasinglyentertainingguestsathomewithdinner,filmandkaraokenights,(1)______bytelevisionshowsoncookin
Trafficlightsarecrucialtoolsforregulatingtrafficflow.Theyarenot,however,perfect.Atunmanagedjunctions,apattern
A、Itisdifficultforstudentstogetanaveragescore.B、Thestudentsdiscussandtalkabouttheirlivesquiteoften.C、Itisr
Halfacenturyago,mostpeoplelivedin【B1】______areas.However,accordingtothemostrecentestimateprojectedbytheUnited
随机试题
阀门填料函泄漏的原因不是下列哪项?()
阳黄的临床表现不包括
能引起小儿疱疹性咽峡炎的病原体是()。
工程量清单计价制度要求采用的合同计价方式为()。
会计报表至少应包括()。
企业采用重置成本、可变现净值、现值和公允价值计量的,应当保证所确定的会计要素金额能够取得并可靠计量。()
下列关于印花税计税依据的表述中,正确的是()。
在日常生活条件下,适当控制条件并结合教育教学工作,以引起某种心理活动而进行的心理研究方法是()。
江泽民指:“()是一个民族进步的灵魂,是国家兴旺发达的不竭动力。”。
有人指出:在历史转折时期,只要充分认识历史的必然之路和自己的历史责任,做出正确的选择,就可以在历史进程中大有作为。这句话()
最新回复
(
0
)