Unit 4 Astronomy- the science of the stars课时作业

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　　[2019·郑州第一次质量预测]A day in the life of 18­year­old David Lanster is full of typical teenage stuff: school, baseball practice and homework. And then he starts cooking. "Some nights I'm up until 1：00 a．m. making pies, or even later if we're cooking beef，" said the student at Ransom Everglades High School in Florida, US.

　　For the past year, Lanster and Kelly Moran, his classmate, have been hosting fancy dinner parties at Lanster's parents' home. Their meals have 17 courses and are all made by themselves. Their guests used to give them gifts to thank them until the pair decided to do something nice for charity (慈善事业). "We got some really great Miami Heat tickets, a nice watch, and many kitchen gadgets (小器具)，" Lanster said. "But we wanted to make this something positive for people other than us."

　　Lauster and Moran focus on Common Threads, a charity that aims to teach kids in poor communities to cook and make healthy eating choices. The young cooks ask their guests to give however much they want as payment for their meals. It all goes to Common Threads because Lanster's parents cover their food costs. After their last 12­person event, Lanster and Moran gave $1,600 to the charity.

　　Now, they're taking their show out of the kitchen and on the road. They have started to organize private dinner parties with a similar model: the host pays for the ingredients, and the guests make a donation to a charity of their choice.

Without formal training, Lanster said he had been interested in