Unit 1 Women of achievement grammar课时作业

Ⅰ.阅读理解

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　　Our story begins at the John Burroughs Elementary School in Washington, D．C. The school's kindergarten students are staying late today - an hour after classes normally end. The boys and girls are not seeking help with reading skills or mathematics. Instead, they are tasting kale, a vegetable that many of them are eating for the first time.

　　The school's teacher Dionne Hammiel says her students have learned healthy eating habits from the program. She hopes they will keep a healthy diet for the rest of their lives.

　　The program is taught by young people like Karen Davison. She is a member of FoodCorps. The non­profit group gets money from the AmeriCorps National Service Program. Since the beginning of the school year, Ms. Davison has spent each day in this Washington, D．C. classroom. She gives the kindergartners vegetables that many of them have never tasted. She teaches them where their food comes from and how they can choose to eat healthier meals.

　　FoodCorps was set up five years ago. It sends more than 180 young Americans to 500 schools across the United States. The young people teach students about nutrition and how they can eat healthy food both at school and at home. FoodCorps also works with other groups to plant vegetable gardens in schools and bring healthier food to stores - especially stores in cities. Many small urban stores often sell only packaged food.

　　Maddie Morales is a member of FoodCorps. She says the group's work is especially important in the fight against childhood obesity - when a child has too much body fat. She notes that the child obesity rate in the United States is twice what it was 30 years ago.

　　1．Why are the school's kindergarten students staying late?

A．They are attending extra classes.