Ⅰ.阅读理解
Our story begins at the John Burroughs Elementary School in Washington，D.C. The school’s kindergarten students are staying late today — an hour after classes normally end. The boys and girls are not seeking help with reading skills or mathematics. Instead, they are tasting kale, a vegetable that many of them are eating for the first time.
The school’s teacher Dionne Hammiel says her students have learned healthy eating habits from the program. She hopes they will keep a healthy diet for the rest of their lives.
The program is taught by young people like Karen Davison. She is a member of FoodCorps. The nonprofit group gets money from the AmeriCorps National Service Program. Since the beginning of the school year, Ms Davison has spent each day in this Washington，D.C. classroom. She gives the kindergartners vegetables that many of them have never tasted. She teaches them where their food comes from and how they can choose to eat healthier meals.
FoodCorps was set up five years ago. It sends more than 180 young Americans to 500 schools across the United States. The young people teach students about nutrition and how they can eat healthy food both at school and at home. FoodCorps also works with other groups to plant vegetable gardens in schools and bring healthier food to stores — especially stores in cities. Many small urban stores often sell only packaged food.
Maddie Morales is a member of FoodCorps. She says the group’s work is especially important in the fight against childhood obesity — when a child has too much body fat. She notes that the child obesity rate in the United States is twice what it was 30 years ago.
语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了FoodCorps正在做的一个教孩子们健康饮食的项目。
1．Why are the school’s kindergarten students staying late?
A．They are attending extra classes.
B．They are learning about eating healthily.
C．They are learning how to pick out fresh vegetables.
D．They are being punished because of their poor performance.
解析：选B 细节理解题。根据第一段中的Instead, they are tasting kale ... the first time.和第二段第一句The school’s teacher Dionne Hammiel says ... habits from the program.可知，孩子们放学后还没走，是在学习健康饮食。
2．What do we know about FoodCorps?
A．It makes money by selling healthy food.
B．It helps a lot in fighting against childhood obesity.
C．It teaches students how to plant healthy vegetables.
D．It aims at introducing rare vegetables across the United States.
解析：选B 细节理解题。根据最后一段中的She says the group’s work is especially important in the fight against childhood obesity可知，FoodCorps在解决儿童肥胖问题上的贡献尤为突出。
3．What can we infer from the text?
A．Food sold in city stores is usually unhealthy.
B．Most of the children in the program are overweight.
C．Compared with healthy food, packaged food is cheaper.
D．The problem of overweight is getting worse in the United States.
解析：选D 推理判断题。根据最后一段中的She notes that the child obesity rate in the United States is twice what it was 30 years ago.可知，美国的儿童肥胖问题更为严重了。
