For convenience(方便). plenty of people prefer having a takeaway(外卖)to cooking at home. Now there is an app through which people can enjoy delicious and cheap takeaway food.

Too Good To Go, an app being used in the UK, allows users to order leftover(剩余的)food at a low price from restaurants. The purpose is to cut down on food waste, as lots of restaurants usually throw away the food that can still be eaten at the end of the day.

Users just need to pick a restaurant and pay through the app. Then they pick up their food at planned times usually around closing time or after peak (高峰期的) meal times.

"Food waste is one of the biggest problems we have in this world," one creator of the app said. "The restaurant industry is wasting about 600,000 tons of food each year." By the end of August, Too Good To Go had helped save about 600 meals in the UK.

Users also have the choice to give meals to people who are in need by donating one British pound or more through the app. By the end of August, more than 1,100 meals had been donated.

Too Good To Go isn't the first app to try to deal with food waste. In Spain, the Yo No Desperdicio app allows people to exchange leftover food with each other. In the US, the Food Cowboy app allows food shops to sell "ugly vegetables" that most customers don't buy to charities and food banks that need them.

根据上面短文的内容问答问题(每小题答案不超过6个单词).

1.Too Goad To Go is the first app to try to deal with food waste, isn't it?

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2.How many tons of food is the restaurant industry wasting each year?

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3.Why do plenty of people like having a takeaway?

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4.What is the purpose of the app Too Good To Go?

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5.How can people in Spain deal with leftover food through the Yo No Desperdicio app?

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In the last century, differnet natural disasters have robbed several cultural heritage(遗产) from us. On WeChat, some people say, “What a pity that we cannot see the damaged parts of the wonders anymore.” But people can see them in a new way---through a video game. In this game, the player can travel to one city after another and enter the buildings exactly like they are in reality, and see the wonders as they were before the fire.

Maybe digital technology(数字技术) could help protect cultural heritage better. This idea dates back to the 1990s and the necessary technology has continued to develop since then. By scanning(扫 描) the ancient buildings, building 3D models, as well as measuring everything, engineers can make a copy exactly as the real one.

As computers and smart phones are popular, the digital copy has great value. First, it allows tourists to feel the cultural heritage without touching them, which helps protect them. The virtual tour of Dunhuang Grottoes(敦煌石窟) is a good example of this as tourists can view the paintings without standing near them.

Second, it can make the cultural heritage more famous by spreading information about them through the internet. In 2000, a virtual tour of the Dunhuang Grottoes became very popular at the Hannover World Expo, which increased the number of foreign tourists visiting the site in the following years.

Last, it stores all the information of the cultural heritage. Even if the real ones are damaged one day, people can still know what they were like and can build a new one if wanted. Of course, however exact a model, it is not the real one.

Maybe we will have better technologies in the future, but the digital technology offers a practical way to protect cultural heritage at the moment.

1.We can see the damaged parts of those wonders .

A.by entering the buildings B.by creating another copy

C.by spreading information D.through a video game

2.Which is the correct order of digitalizing ancient buildings according to the passage?

① Build 3D models.

② Scan the ancient buildings.

③ Make a copy exactly as the real one.

④ Measure everything.

A.②①④③ B.③①②④ C.①②④③ D.②③①④

3.The writer uses the example of Dunhuang in Paragragh 3 and 4 to .

A.show the writer is really interested in travelling to Dunhuang

B.prove people can build a new one if the real ones are damaged

C.show Dunhuang Grottoes are disappearing because of the disaster

D.prove computers and phones makes digital copies more valuable

4.What is the writer’s attitude(态度) towards the digital technology?

A.Doubt. B.Confident. C.Critical D.Unclear.

5.What is the best title of the passage?

A.The cultural heritage. B.Dunhuang Grottoes.

C.Digital technology could help. D.How can we see the damaged parts?

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