Question

Do you think that living a hungry life is last century’s story? Well, it may be this century’s headline.
The world has growing worries about a global food shortage. Right now, there are still 870 million hungry people in the world, according to a survey of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Children can’t escape this, either. Around fifteen million children die of hungry each year.
What’s causing food shortages? There are several reasons.
There are now more droughts and floods. This is very harmful to farmers and their ability to grow food.
Besides, with the growing population, feeding everyone becomes more difficult. There are a little more than seven billion people in the world. By 2050, the world population will be more than nine billion.
Another reason is food waste. The average person throws away 50kg of food every year.
How can we help with food shortages? The easiest way is to cut down on food waste.
Next time before throwing away the food on your plate, just think how much work has been done to make it. By buying less, we waste less. This takes the pressure off producing so much food. And it helps to solve the problem of food shortage.
You can also ask your schoolmates to join you.
In 2013, researchers at Kansas State University in the US put up short anti-waste slogans(標語) in dining rooms “Think Before You Waste”. Guess what happened? Students wasted fifteen percent less food after that!
The author of the study said, “You don’t need a huge activity to make a difference.”

Reasons of food shortage	小題1:_________________________________
	The growing population.
	小題2:___________________________________
Ways of 小題3:___________	小題4:___________________________________
	Ask the other students to join in your anti-waste work.
Your understanding of the last sentence.	小題5:__________________________________

Answer 1

小題1:More droughts and floods
小題2:Food waste
小題3:helping with food shortage
小題4:Cut down on food waste
小題5:Stop wasting from ourselves and from tiny/little things.

試題分析：現在世界上還有870，000，000人在挨餓。食物短缺的原因有三：1.自然災害；2. 人口不斷增長；3.浪費嚴重。我們可以做到減少浪費，從我做起。
小題1:根據There are now more droughts and floods. This is very harmful to farmers and their ability to grow food.可知，食物短缺的原因之一是旱災和澇災。這對農作物是有害的。所以這里填More droughts and floods；另一個原因已經列在下面了：人口不斷增長。
小題2:根據Another reason is food waste. 可知。另一個原因是Food waste浪費食物。
小題3:文中的How can we help with food shortages? 意思是ways of helping with food shortage。所以填helping with food shortage。
小題4:根據The easiest way is to cut down on food waste.最簡單的方法是減少食物浪費。所以填Cut down on food waste。
小題5:You don’t need a huge activity to make a difference.的意思是你不需要一個大行動就醫哦造成影響。與Stop wasting from ourselves and from tiny/little things.停止浪費從小事做起、從我做起。意思一致。所以填Stop wasting from ourselves and from tiny/little things.