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海淀区2024一2025学年第一学期期中练习
高三英语
2024.11
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It's 4:30 a.m.and the lights are blazing at Food Forward's warehouse.Forklifts whiz around the
loading dock,pulling pallets of donated strawherries off one truck or pushing boxes of potatoes onto
another headed to 1 people later in the day.Everything moves fast at Food Forward-a nonprofit
devoted to giving away agricultural products that would 2 be wasted.
Food Forward started 15 years ago.When wandering through his neighborhood,Rick Nahmias
noticed all the 3 fruit on the trees and considered how he could make the best of them."Why not
give them to those in need "Then Nahmias put an ad online,asking for volunteers to help him pick
unwanted fruit for donation.Six people responded,but only one 4 at the first event.He persisted.
and slowly.an initial core group formed.For the next nine months they'd gather on weekends,picking
fruit and 5 them to local food banks.
In October 2009,Nahmias was offered a $25.000 grant,enabling their weekend "fun"to become
regular,which eventually contributed to a sustainable 6.Thus Food Forward was established.The
nonprofit quickly expanded,collecting not only unwanted residential fruit but also millions of pounds of
unsold 7 from farmers markets and wholesale sellers.In 2023,it 8 87 million pounds to feed
the starving people.
Today.Food Forward has 50 employees and 2,000 volunteers.People want to work here.Every
morning,warehouse manager,drivers and vendors greet each other by name,usually with handshakes
that end in hugs.This kind of 9 is a large part of why Food Forward has been so successful.
"10 the abundance"is not just a slogan:it's a way of life.W'e all have abundance;we just
need to find out what it is,and give it.
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