Late Work
An essay not submitted in class on the due date will lose a letter gradefor
each class period it is late. If it is not turned in by the 4th day afterthe due
date, it will earn a zero. Daily assignments not completed during classwill
get a zero. Short writings missed as a result of an excused absence willbe
accepted.
21. Where is this text probably taken from?
A. A textbook.
B. An exam paper.
D. An academic article.
C. A course plan.
22. How many parts is a student’s final grade made up of?
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.
23. What will happen if yosubmit an essay one week after the duedate?
A. Yowill receive a zero.
C. Yowill be given a test.
B. Yowill lose a letter grade.
D. Yowill have to rewrite it.
B
Like most of us, I try to be mindful of food that goes to waste. The
arugula (芝麻菜 ) was to make a nice green salad, rounding out a roast
chicken dinner. But I ended up working late. Then friends called with a
dinner invitation. I stuck the chicken in the freezer. But as days passed,the
arugula went bad. Even worse, I had unthinkingly bought way too much; I
could have made six salads with what I threw out.
In a world where nearly 800 million people a year go hungry, “foodwaste
goes against the moral grain,” as Elizabeth Royte writes in thismonth’s
cover story. It’s jaw-dropping how much perfectly good food is thrownaway
— from “ugly” (but quite eatable) vegetables rejected by grocers tolarge
amounts of uneaten dishes thrown into restaurant garbage cans.
Producing food that no one eats wastes the water, fuel, and other
resources used to grow it. That makes food waste an environmentalproblem.
In fact, Royte writes, “if food waste were a country, it would be thethird
largest producer of greenhouse gases in the world.”
If that’s hard to understand, let’s keep it as simple as the arugula atthe
back of my refrigerator. Mike Curtin sees my arugula story all the time—
but for him, it’s more like 12 boxes of donated strawberries nearingtheir
last days. Curtin is CEO of DC Central Kitchen in Washington, D.C.,which
recovers food and turns it into healthy meals. Last year it recoveredmore
than 807,500 pounds of food by taking donations and collectingblemished