Are food insecure. Canned beans
Canned chicken
Canned chili
Canned fish (tuna, salmon)
Cooking oils
Crackers
Dried herbs and spices
Nuts
Peanut butter
Whole-grain cereal
(Note: Avoid items with glass packaging because they can be broken in transport. Pop-top ans
are a plus---no opener needed.) 18.7%
Of Mississippians are food Insecure.
(Highest rate of all states) 5.4 MILLION
Senior citizens currently face food insecurity in America. Lack of transportation, functional limitations, and health problems are major factors 8.7%
Of Hawaiians are food insecure.
(Lowest rate of all states) $1 donated to Feeding America will buy 10 meals for people facing hunger in America. * Trusted Media Brands---Readers' Digest's parent company---has become an official media partner of Feeding America, the nation's largest hunger-relief charity.
1.According to the passage, which of the following is TERE?
A. Those Americans who live above the poverty line won't go hungry.
B. 13 million American children are food insecure for lack of transportation.
C. Among all the states in the USA, food insecurity in Mississippi is severest.
D. Neighborhood banks have no additional requirements for food packaging.
2.What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?
A. To warn readers against dangers of insecure food.
B. To urge readers to help the poor out of poverty.
C. To inform readers of the severe food shortage in America.
D. To advocate readers contributing to food relief in America.
B
Chimps(黑猩猩) will cooperate in certain ways, like gathering in war parties to protect their territory. But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct(本能) to help one another. Chimps in the wild seek food for themselves. Even chimp mothers regularly decline to share food with their children. Who are able from a young age to gather their own food.
In the laboratory, chimps don't naturally share food either. If a chimp is put in a cage where he can pull in one plate of food for himself or, with no greater effort, a plate that also provides food for a neighbor in the next cage, he will pull at random-he just doesn't care whether his neighbor gets fed or not. Chimps are truly