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More than 30 million kids buy school lunch each day. This year, many schools raised lunch prices to fight raising costs. Students pay about $2 a meal now. That is 27 cents more than last year. But they still get a good deal. The average cost for schools to produce one meal has gone up 30 cents, and is now $3.
So, how do schools neither make money nor lose money? To start, the government pays for a small part of the difference. Schools have to make up the rest. Peggy Eller, a leader of school nutrition (营养) service in Hudson, Wisconsin, said her district is cutting costs by using fewer paper products and serving smaller portion(份额). Well, portion control is one key to healthful eating!
The push for more healthful food has grown in recent years. One in five kids aged 6 to 19 is overweight. Being overweight can cause health problems. Many states passed laws that require schools to serve nutritious meals.
Since 2004, more than 90% of all U.S. Schools have removed the fat from lunches. Foods high in fat, salt and sugar have been replaced by low-fat milk, fresh fruits and vegetables. These new items on lunch menus have encouraged kids to change their eating habits. “It makes easier to try new things at home, “said Savanna Mackey, a Florida fifth-grader.
Students need healthful meals to grow strong and do well in school. “Rising prices won’t stand in the way,”says school nutritionist Jane Thornton. “We’ll just be more clever in how we do things.”
1.In the first paragraph, the author aims to tell us .
A. the large number of kids buying school lunch
B. the average price of school lunch
C. the school's ways to deal with school lunch
D. the fact of school lunch's getting more expensive
2.Many school districts raised lunch prices because .
A. there is less healthful food on the menus
B. the cost of food has gone up
C. kids often forget to bring lunch money
D. some school dining-halls are serving smaller portions
3.According to Paragraph 4, Savanna Mackey .
A. doesn't like the new items on the lunch menus
B. always enjoys foods like fresh and vegetables
C. becomes interested in eating healthy food at home
D. prefers eating at school to eating at home
4.What can be inferred from the passage?
A. American schools solve the problem of high food prices by themselves.
B. American schools are very concerned about their students’ health.
C. Almost all schools are forced by the government to serve healthy foods.
D. American childhood overweight is mainly caused by the present lunch foods.
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More than 30 million kids buy school lunch each day. This year, many schools raised lunch prices to fight raising costs. Students pay about $2 a meal now. That is 27 cents more than last year. But they still get a good deal. The average cost for schools to produce one meal has gone up 30 cents, and is now $3.
So, how do schools neither make money nor lose money? To start, the government pays for a small part of the difference. Schools have to make up the rest. Peggy Eller, a leader of school nutrition (营养) service in Hudson, Wisconsin, said her district is cutting costs by using fewer paper products and serving smaller portion(份额). Well, portion control is one key to healthful eating!
The push for more healthful food has grown in recent years. One in five kids aged 6 to19 is overweight. Being overweight can cause health problems. Many states passed laws that require schools to serve nutritious meals.
Since 2004, more than 90% of all U.S. Schools have removed the fat from lunches. Foods high in fat, salt and sugar have been replaced by low-fat milk, fresh fruits and vegetables. These new items on lunch menus have encouraged kids to change their eating habits. “It makes easier to try new things at home, “said Savanna Mackey, a Florida fifth-grader.
Students need healthful meals to grow strong and do well in school. “Rising prices won’t stand in the way,” says school nutritionist Jane Thornton. “We’ll just be more clever in how we do things.”
64.In the first paragraph, the author aims to tell us _________ .
A. the large number of kids buying school lunch
B. the average price of school lunch
C. the school's ways to deal with school lunch
D. the fact of school lunch's getting more expensive
65.Many school districts raised lunch prices because _________ .
A. there is less healthful food on the menus
B. the cost of food has gone up
C. kids often forget to bring lunch money
D. some school dining-halls are serving smaller portions
66.According to Paragraph 4, Savanna Mackey _________ .
A. doesn't like the new items on the lunch menus
B. always enjoys foods like fresh and vegetables
C. becomes interested in eating healthy food at home
D. prefers eating at school to eating at home
67.What can be inferred from the passage?
A. American schools solve the problem of high food prices by themselves.
B. American schools are very concerned about their students’ health.
C. Almost all schools are forced by the government to serve healthy foods.
D. American childhood overweight is mainly caused by the present lunch foods.
查看习题详情和答案>>More than half of the parents in the United States are helping, or have helped, support their adult children who have been hit by high unemployment and poor wages(工资), according to a new survey. It showed that present economic conditions are discouraging young adults from leaving home and forcing those who have already gone, so-called boomerang kids, to return.
“Parents are continuing their financial involvement longer than we expected,” said Ted Beck, president of National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE).
About 60 percent of parents questioned in the survey said they’re helping their adult children who are no longer in school financially. Half are providing housing and nearly half are helping with living expenses.
For an increasing number of adult children, the situation is bad. Two-thirds of adult children, aged 18 to 39, who are not in school said they faced tougher financial pressures than previous generations, according to the survey. And nearly one-third of parents agreed that it was easier for them to find their financial feet than for their children.
Parents are helping their children out of genuine concern because they do not want to see them struggle. But Beck said that parents who make sacrifices(牺牲) to help their adult children should be careful about their own finances.
“If you are taking on extra debt or delaying(推迟) retirement to help your adult child, you could be making a mistake and putting your own financial future in danger,” Beck warned.
Boomerang children can also cause other problems for their parents. Thirty percent of parents said they had given up privacy since their adult children moved back home, while more than a quarter have taken on added debt, and seven percent have delayed retirement. But the survey also showed 42 percent of adult children living at home are helping with the cooking and cleaning.
【小题1】According to the text, boomerang kids refer to ____.
A.married adult children |
B.grown-ups living with parents |
C.adult children independent and successful in life |
D.young adults depending on parents for financial support |
A.about 30% of parents offer their adult children housing |
B.one-third of adult children earn money more easily than their parents |
C.two-thirds of adult children are faced with financial problems in school |
D.about 50% of parents give money to their adult children to cover the daily cost |
A.Asking their children to help with the housework. |
B.Being careful when helping their children financially. |
C.Leaving their children to struggle to live. |
D.Putting off their time of retirement. |
A.Adult children are less independent | B.Parents help support adult children |
C.Bad conditions affect children a lot | D.Adult children like living with parents |
More than half of the parents in the United States are helping, or have helped, support their adult children who have been hit by high unemployment and poor wages(工资), according to a new survey. It showed that present economic conditions are discouraging young adults from leaving home and forcing those who have already gone, so-called boomerang kids, to return.
“Parents are continuing their financial involvement longer than we expected,” said Ted Beck, president of National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE).
About 60 percent of parents questioned in the survey said they’re helping their adult children who are no longer in school financially. Half are providing housing and nearly half are helping with living expenses.
For an increasing number of adult children, the situation is bad. Two-thirds of adult children, aged 18 to 39, who are not in school said they faced tougher financial pressures than previous generations, according to the survey. And nearly one-third of parents agreed that it was easier for them to find their financial feet than for their children.
Parents are helping their children out of genuine concern because they do not want to see them struggle. But Beck said that parents who make sacrifices(牺牲) to help their adult children should be careful about their own finances.
“If you are taking on extra debt or delaying(推迟) retirement to help your adult child, you could be making a mistake and putting your own financial future in danger,” Beck warned.
Boomerang children can also cause other problems for their parents. Thirty percent of parents said they had given up privacy since their adult children moved back home, while more than a quarter have taken on added debt, and seven percent have delayed retirement. But the survey also showed 42 percent of adult children living at home are helping with the cooking and cleaning.
1.According to the text, boomerang kids refer to ____.
A.married adult children
B.grown-ups living with parents
C.adult children independent and successful in life
D.young adults depending on parents for financial support
2.According to the survey, we can infer that _____.
A.about 30% of parents offer their adult children housing
B.one-third of adult children earn money more easily than their parents
C.two-thirds of adult children are faced with financial problems in school
D.about 50% of parents give money to their adult children to cover the daily cost
3.What is Ted Beck’s suggestion to the parents?
A.Asking their children to help with the housework.
B.Being careful when helping their children financially.
C.Leaving their children to struggle to live.
D.Putting off their time of retirement.
4.What would be the best title for the text?
A.Adult children are less independent B.Parents help support adult children
C.Bad conditions affect children a lot D.Adult children like living with parents
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More than half of the parents in the United States are helping, or have helped, support their adult children who have been hit by high unemployment and poor wages(工资), according to a new survey. It showed that present economic conditions are discouraging young adults from leaving home and forcing those who have already gone, so-called boomerang kids, to return.
“Parents are continuing their financial involvement longer than we expected,” said Ted Beck, president of National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE).
About 60 percent of parents questioned in the survey said they’re helping their adult children who are no longer in school financially. Half are providing housing and nearly half are helping with living expenses.
For an increasing number of adult children, the situation is bad. Two-thirds of adult children, aged 18 to 39, who are not in school said they faced tougher financial pressures than previous generations, according to the survey. And nearly one-third of parents agreed that it was easier for them to find their financial feet than for their children.
Parents are helping their children out of genuine concern because they do not want to see them struggle. But Beck said that parents who make sacrifices(牺牲) to help their adult children should be careful about their own finances.
“If you are taking on extra debt or delaying(推迟) retirement to help your adult child, you could be making a mistake and putting your own financial future in danger,” Beck warned.
Boomerang children can also cause other problems for their parents. Thirty percent of parents said they had given up privacy since their adult children moved back home, while more than a quarter have taken on added debt, and seven percent have delayed retirement. But the survey also showed 42 percent of adult children living at home are helping with the cooking and cleaning
- 1.
According to the text, boomerang kids refer to ______.
- A.married adult children
- B.grown-ups living with parents
- C.adult children independent and successful in life
- D.young adults depending on parents for financial support
- A.
- 2.
According to the survey, we can infer that ______.
- A.about 30% of parents offer their adult children housing
- B.one-third of adult children earn money more easily than their parents
- C.two-thirds of adult children are faced with financial problems in school
- D.about 50% of parents give money to their adult children to cover the daily cost
- A.
- 3.
What is Ted Beck’s suggestion to the parents?
- A.Asking their children to help with the housework
- B.Being careful when helping their children financially
- C.Leaving their children to struggle to live
- D.Putting off their time of retirement
- A.
- 4.
What would be the best title for the text?
- A.Adult children are less independent
- B.Parents help support adult children
- C.Bad conditions affect children a lot
- D.Adult children like living with parents
- A.