The common Chinese greeting of “Ni chi le ma?” may soon be replaced(代替) by a new greeting: “Have you cleaned your plate?”
The Clean Your Plate Campaign began on the Internet in January, 2013. It calls on people to reduce food waste. China in recent years has experienced serious problems with wasted food. CCTV reported in January that the food Chinese people waste every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year.
Chinese people are well-known for their friendly behavior towards guests. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food.
It’s important for everyone to reduce food waste. However, wasting food is still a serious problem in China. We still have a long way to go.
President Xi Jinping is encouraging people to be less wasteful, and he told Party members to cut back on wasteful holiday banquets(宴会). He said they should be more careful when spending the people’s money.
Wasting food certainly goes against what Xi Jinping calls, “the Chinese tradition of being hardworking and thrifty(节俭).” Having a “clean plate” is just a traditional and important thing to do.
Have you cleaned your plate?
1. The Clean Your Plate Campaign calls on people to ______.
A. reduce food waste B. be more friendly to guests
C. deal with serious problems D. eat less food
2. Which of the following is True according to the passage?
A. The Clean Your Plate Campaign began online in January, 2013.
B. Chinese people waste food for 200 people in a year.
C. Chinese guests like to eat up all the food on the table.
D. Chinese people think wasting food is good.
3. We can learn from the passage that______.
A. plates must be kept clean
B. Party members like to waste the people’s money
C. it’s difficult to deal with food wasting problem
D. people are going to eat more food.
4. The underlined phrase “cut back on” in the 5th paragraph(段落) probably means “______ ”.
A. 增加 B. 保持 C. 减少 D. 持续
5. The passage is written to ______.
A. introduce a new way of greeting
B. encourage people to be less wasteful
C. call on people to work hard for our country
D. eat more healthy food.