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I first came across the concept of pay-what-you-can cafes last summer in Boone, N.C., where I ate at F.A.R.M (Feed All Regardless of Means) Café. You can volunteer to earn your meal, pay the suggested price($10) or less, or you can overpay—paying it forward for a future customer’s meal. My only regret after eating there was not having a chance to give my time. So as soon as Healthy World Café opened in York in April, I signed up for a volunteer shift(轮班).

F.A.R.M and Healthy World are part of a growing trend of community cafés. In 2003, Denise Cerreta opened the first in Salt Lake City. Cerreta now runs the One World Everybody Eats Foundation, helping others copy her pay-what-you can model.

“I think the community café is truly a hand up, not a handout,” Cerreta said. She acknowledged that soup kitchens(施粥所) have a place in society, but people typically don’t feel good about going there.

“One of the values of the community café is that we have another approach,” she said. “Everyone eats here, no one needs to know whether you volunteered, overpaid or underpaid.”

The successful cafés not only address hunger and food insecurity but also become necessary parts of their neighborhood – whether it’s a place to learn skills or hear live music. Some teach cooking to seniors; some offer free used books. Eating or working there is a reminder that we are all in this world together.

My 10 am---1pm shift at World-Healthy-Café began with the café manager – one of the two paid staff members. Our volunteer crew wasn’t the most orderly, but we managed to prepare and serve meals with a lot of laughs in between. At the end of my shift, I ordered my earned meal at the counter, together with other volunteers. After lunch, I walked out the door, with a handful of new friends, music in my head and a satisfied belly and heart.

【语篇导读】本文是一篇记叙文开头引出作者在一个自主咖啡馆的亲身经历，讲述了这种社区咖啡馆建立的好处以及作者在那工作的感受。

D

We took a rare family road trip to the Adirondacks in late August，and it was as refreshing and exhausting as family vacations tend to be．Toward the end of our long drive home, even the kids were leaning forward in their seats urging my lead foot on．At that point in a road trip，even sixty-five miles per hour feels slow. We have become numb to our speed and numb to the road signs flashing by.

My family lives on the edge of Lancaster County. Only thirty miles from home，I hit the brakes，and we began to roll，slowly，behind a horse-drawn carriage. We began to open our eyes again．We saw familiar green hills and the farm with the best watermelons. I rolled down the windows, and we breathed again．Just-cut hay and a barn full of dairy cattle．

At five miles per hour，you remember what you forget at sixty-five．You are thinking about a place，even when you are moving from place to place．

I am a placemaker. A homemaker, too. I am a mother of a young kid at home，and also a writer and a gardener．But，for me，those roles are wrapped up with the one big thing I want to do with the rest of my life：I want to cultivate a place and share it with others．

The place I make with my family is a red-brick farmhouse built in l880. It has quite a few nineteenth-century bedrooms and a few acres of land，and we love nothing more than to fill them with neighbors and friends. We grow vegetables and flowers，keep a baker’s dozen of egg—laying chickens，and，since we moved in three years ago，we have planted many，many trees．

Living with my life’s purpose does not allow for much travel. I need to be here，feeding the chickens and watering the tomatoes. Any extra in the budget，and we spend it on trees．

But I learned something at the end of our family road trip．Travel can help me in the task of caring for my own place．When I slow down and pay attention to the road between here and there，travel tells me the connections between my place and all the other places．

【语篇导读】本文是一篇记叙，作者以一程旅行说起，主要描述了回家路上自己对家乡的怀念和所思所想。

E

The book A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind Obesity and How We Can End It by Deborah Cohen, a senior natural scientist, is very popular now. __36___ But according to this book, the following are some misunderstandings of obesity or being overweight.

If you're obese, blame your genes.___37__ Yet, between 1980 and 2000, the number of Americans who are obese has doubled-----too quickly for genetic factors to be responsible. At restaurants, a dollar puts more calories on our plates than ever before, because restaurant meals usually have more calories than what we prepare at home, so people who eat out more frequently have higher rates of obesity than those who eat out less.

If you're obese, you lack self-control.Research shows that if we are faced with too much information, we have a tendency to make poor choices on diet. ___38___ Even the most vigilant（警觉的）people may not be good controllers of themselves.

__39____Although the US Department of Agriculture estimates that fewer than 5 percent of Americans live in the "food deserts", about 65 percent of the nation's population is obese. For most of us, obesity is not related to access to more fresh fruits and vegetables, but to the choices we make in supermarkets.

The problem is not that we eat too much, but that we don't exercise.Michelle Obama's "Let’s Move" campaign is based on the idea that if kids exercise more, childhood obesity rates will decrease. __40___ In fact, although a drop in work-related physical activity may explain up to 100 fewer calories burned, leisure physical activity appears to have increased.

A. Lack of access to fresh fruits and vegetables is a cause of obesity.

B. Obesity rates have increased.

C. Fresh fruits and vegetables we choose in a supermarket are related to obesity.

D. But there was no obvious decrease in physical activity levels as obesity rates climbed in the 1980s and 1990s.

E. People hold different views on obesity.

F. People benefit a lot from physical activities.

G. Our world has become so rich in food that we can be led to consume too much in ways we can't understand.

【语篇导读】本文是一篇说明文，主要讲述了肥胖的原因以及造成的不良后果。

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Once a farmer lost his watch in his barn, in which lots of grain was kept. The watch,   61   was a gift from his father, was very important to him and he was determined to find it.

After searching the barn for a long time, however, he gave up and asked for help from a group of children who were playing nearby. He promised to give a great reward to   62   found the watch.

   63   (hear)this, the children hurried inside the barnimmediately.    64    searched everywhere but still could not findthe watch buried in the grain. The farmer was about to give up  65   alittle boy went up to him and asked to be given    66   secondchance.

The farmer looked at him and thought, “Why not? After all, this kidlooks honest.”

So the farmer sent the little boy back into the barn. After a while thelittle boy came out   67   the watch in his hand! The farmer,    68    (surprise) but happy, asked the boy how hesucceeded where the rest had failed.

The boy replied, “I did nothing but    69    (sit) quietly and listen for the sound of thewatch.”

This shows us that sometimes a peaceful mind can think    70  (well) than an excited one.

【语篇导读】本文降生了一个老农民将手表丢到谷仓里，让孩子们帮他找到手表的故事，其中一个男孩坐在谷仓里听表走的声音，最后终于找到了手表，这个故事告诉我们遇事要冷静沉着。

基础知识测试（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

注意：1-5题为单词拼写（每空一词）