第二步：精读重点段落

（Tips: 双击文中单词可以查释义并加入你的生词本哦）

第一段：
When money is tight eight-year-old Emma’s parents are forced to send their daughter to school, tummy rumbling, without any breakfast. In the evening, she fills up on plain pasta or reduced microwave meals – cheap food her parents can afford. 

• tummy <口语> 肚子
• rumble 发出隆隆声

第三段：
The situation Emma lives with is the devastating reality faced by the 500,000 children across the UK who go to school hungry each day.

第五段：
But not eating isn’t the only problem – access to nourishing and nutrient-filled food is simply out of reach for thousands of families living on the breadline, with far-reaching consequences for too many of Britain’s children. 

• breadline等待分配救济食物的队伍

第六段：
Dr. George Grimble, a medical scientist at University College London, said the situation was “disastrous” for developing children, resulting in malnourishment, obesity and squandered potential. 

• malnourishment 营养不良
• obesity 肥胖
• squander 浪费

第九段：
The harrowing hunger stats sit juxtaposed with the fact 100 million tons of food is wasted each year across the EU.

• harrowing 难受的，痛苦的
• stats 数据statistics的简写
• juxtapose 并列放置

第十四段：
While many families struggle to put food on the table, supermarkets, food manufacturers and households across the country waste a massive 10 million tons of food each year – much of it still perfectly edible.

第十七段：
For every five bags of groceries we take home, mostly from supermarkets, one will be wasted – costing the average family with children in the capital £700 a year, a price many Londoners can ill afford.

• can ill afford 担负不起

（Tips: 双击文中单词可以查释义并加入你的生词本哦）

Help a hungry child

第一段：
When money is tight eight-year-old Emma’s parents are forced to send their daughter to school, tummy rumbling, without any breakfast. In the evening, she fills up on plain pasta or reduced microwave meals – cheap food her parents can afford. 

• tummy <口语> 肚子
• rumble 发出隆隆声

第二段：
Emma says she often feels too tired to concentrate on her schoolwork. 

第三段：
The situation Emma lives with is the devastating reality faced by the 500,000 children across the UK who go to school hungry each day.

第四段：
Eight million people in Britain – the world’s sixth largest economy – are living in food poverty, according to the United Nations (UN). And an estimated 870,000 children in England may be going to bed hungry each night because their parents are unable to provide the meals they need.

第五段：
But not eating isn’t the only problem – access to nourishing and nutrient-filled food is simply out of reach for thousands of families living on the breadline, with far-reaching consequences for too many of Britain’s children. 

• breadline等待分配救济食物的队伍

第六段：
Dr. George Grimble, a medical scientist at University College London, said the situation was “disastrous” for developing children, resulting in malnourishment, obesity and squandered potential. 

• malnourishment 营养不良
• obesity 肥胖
• squander 浪费

第七段：
“When people are in poverty they are forced to buy the cheapest foods – filling but nutrient-lacking food,” Dr Grimble told The Independent. “Food poverty in the community overlays to a large extent on disease malnutrition.”

• overlay 叠加

第八段：
More than 60 per cent of paediatricians believe food insecurity contributed to the ill health among children they treat, according to a 2017 survey by the Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health. 

• paediatrician 儿科医生

第九段：
The harrowing hunger stats sit juxtaposed with the fact 100 million tons of food is wasted each year across the EU.

• harrowing 难受的，痛苦的
• stats 数据statistics的简写
• juxtapose 并列放置

第十段：
More than 400 million meals’ worth of edible food was sent to landfill in 2016 which could have been redistributed to feed hungry people across Britain, according to the Government’s waste advisory body, Wrap. 

• landfill 垃圾填埋地

第十一段：
Which is why for this year’s Christmas campaign The Independentis partnering with The Felix Project to tackle the scourge of food poverty unnecessarily blighting the futures of too many of Britain’s schoolchildren. 

• tackle 解决
• scourge 灾难，祸患
• blight 摧毁，使枯萎

第十二段：
‘One third of food grown globally is never eaten’

第十三段：
By Carina Millstone, executive director of Feedback, an environmental organisation that campaigns to end food waste

• campaign参加竞选；从事运动

第十四段：
While many families struggle to put food on the table, supermarkets, food manufacturers and households across the country waste a massive 10 million tons of food each year – much of it still perfectly edible.

第十五段：
Supermarkets have started to rise to the challenge. Tesco, for example, committed last year to redistribute 100 per cent of its surplus food to charity.

第十六段：
But they must also carefully examine how displays of seemingly endless abundance, enticing “special offers” and “family” packaging sizes may be pushing their customers to buy more than they really need.

• entice 诱惑，引诱

第十七段：
For every five bags of groceries we take home, mostly from supermarkets, one will be wasted – costing the average family with children in the capital £700 a year, a price many Londoners can ill afford.

• can ill afford 担负不起

第十八段：
And it’s not just our wallets that hurt when we throw away food, it’s also our planet.

第十九段：
One third of food grown globally is never eaten – representing a waste of land, water and resources of staggering proportions.

• staggering 令人瞠目结舌的

第二十段：
Food waste then is as much an environmental tragedy as it is a social outrage – but, on the plus side, we can all take action to fight it. 

• outrage 愤怒，义愤
• on the plus side 在好的一面

第二十一段：
The charity has been working since 2016 to redistribute surplus in-date produce, collected from more than 90 food retailers, to 100 frontline charities which need it most.

第二十二段：
This year, The Felix Project expects to distribute one million meals. 

第二十三段：
Now, it will be channelling all funds raised by The Independent’s appeal to provide fresh and nutritious food for hungry children to access at primary schools.

• channel 运作

第二十四段：
Hilary Croft, CEO of The Felix Project, said: “We wanted to have a more direct impact on children as we know of the consequences of children going hungry. 

第二十五段：
“They lose an hour of learning time a day, they can’t concentrate, it’s just huge lost potential.”

第二十六段：
Every £1 donated will ensure a primary school child and their family has the food needed for a nutritious meal. £500 will enable a new school to be recruited to the programme.