社区共享冰箱在北爱尔兰上线
社区共享冰箱在北爱尔兰上线

Northern Ireland’s first sharing fridge has opened in Cloughmills. It’s the fridge that could help feed a community.
The sharing fridge is open to all with businesses and residents able to share extra food or help themselves to save food. The idea behind the community fridge is simple—take what you need and leave what you don’t need.
Patrick Frew, chair of Cloughmills Community Action Team, said it was not a food bank. “It’s for everyone,” he said. “If you’re going away on holidays, you can bring along some of your food before you go and leave it with us, rather than throw into the bin or landfill, and we give it out to other people. You can come and see what we have and take it home with you. If you’ve got any spare food at home, we can take it off your hands. Then see what we have that you can take home with you.”
The people behind the fridge estimate that each family in the village could be throwing away up to ￡470 of food every year—that’s ￡282,000 a year for the whole area.
Although this is the first in Northern Ireland, there are solidarity or honesty fridges in Spain, Germany and other parts of the UK. When a community fridge was set up in Swadlincote in England, it collected and gave out more than 2,0000 kg of food in the first six months.

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1.What can you do at the sharing fridge? ①Leave the extra food there. ②Sell the extra food at a low price. ③Take food you need home. ④Buy food at a low price.

A ①③

B ①④

C ②③

D ②④

解析：选A。细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句The idea behind the community fridge is simple—take what you need and leave what you don’t need.可知人们可以把自家多出来的食物放在社区冰箱、拿走别人留下的自己需要的食物，包含①③，故选A。

2.What does the underlined word “spare” mean?

A Out of date.

B Easy to cook.

C More than you need.

D Delicious and popular.

解析：选C。词义猜测题。根据前面的going away on holidays, rather than throw into the bin or landfill可以推测应该是把自己家多余的自己吃不完的食物拿到社区共享冰箱去，因此spare的意思是“多余的，超出自己需求的”，故选C。

3.How many families are there in Cloughmills Community?

A 470.

B 600.

C 1070.

D 28200.

解析：选B。细节理解题。根据第四段The people behind the fridge estimate that each family in the village could be throwing away up to ￡470 of food every year—that’s ￡282,000 a year for the whole area.可知每个家庭扔掉470英镑的食物，社区冰箱为大家节约了282000英镑，因此社区有282000÷470=600个家庭，故选B。

4.Where can you find such kind of community fridge?

A In England.

B In Germany.

C In Spain.

D All of the above.

解析：选D。细节理解题。根据最后一段第一句Although this is the first in Northern Ireland, there are solidarity or honesty fridges in Spain, Germany and other parts of the UK. 可知英格兰、德国和西班牙都有类似的社区共享冰箱，包含A、B、C三项，故选D。

5.What is the best title for this passage?

A Extra food saver—sharing fridge.

B The first sharing fridge in Northern Ireland.

C Free food in the helpful community.

D Help from sharing fridge.

解析：选B。主旨大意题。根据文章主旨句Northern Ireland’s first sharing fridge has opened in Cloughmills.可知本文主要是介绍的北爱尔兰的第一个共享冰箱，社区冰箱可以节约食物、帮助居民等都较片面，不能概括全文主旨，故本文标题为“北爱尔兰的第一个共享冰箱”，故选B。