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阅读理解 Italy adopted a new law to cut down food waste — the second such law in Europe, joining France's. So what's the United States doing with the 30 percent of its food that is simply thrown away? Italy's Senate gave final approval(批准) to encourage businesses, shops and restaurants to donate their unused food to charities. That's a practice that historically hasn't been a part of Italian culture, which discards more than 17 percent of its food every year. Calling Italy's level of food waste unacceptable, Agriculture Minister Maurizio Martina told the newspaper La Repubblica, "With this law, we get closer and closer to the aim of recovering a million tons of food and giving it to those who need it." The U.S. Agriculture Department's Economic Research Service says that more than 30 percent of the U.S. food supply goes to waste — 133 billion pounds of it every year, equal to $161 billion. "In a world full of hunger and changeable food prices, these statistics(统计数字) are more than just appalling," according to the North American office of the U.N. Environment Program. "More surprisingly, most of the waste food is completely healthy food that could have helped feed poor families," the Agriculture Department says. Several government efforts are under way. The Agriculture Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, for example, set a goal last year of cutting what they called "food loss" in half by 2030. The idea is to improve product development, storage, marketing and cooking methods and recycle food waste to feed animals. Meanwhile, legislation(立法) in both houses of Congress aims at food waste and pays more attention to educating buyers on what different labels(标签) really mean so that they don't throw away perfectly good food. Research by the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic found that 45 percent of all food waste happens in the home, for buyers' confusion over the importance of date labels — which aren't based on any science and aren't controlled by the government. （1） What does Maurizio Martina think of Italy's level of food waste? A . It has become very serious. B . It is not as serious as America's. C . It has been successfully controlled in recent years. D . It is the most serious among all European countries. （2） What does the underlined word "appalling" in Paragraph 2 most probably mean? A . Interesting. B . Exciting. C . Encouraging. D . Shocking. （3） What can we infer from the last paragraph? A . Most food waste happens in restaurants. B . Some buyers don't get into the habit of saving food. C . It is the government's duty to control the food waste. D . Some buyers don't realize the importance of the date labels. 答案： A D D

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