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The British government has said that a third of the food the world produces is wasted. It said the high
level of food waste in the UK is__ 11__ . Over 7 million tons of food is wasted in the UK every year. A British
politician, Neil Parish, said: “One-third of food produced for human __12__ is lost or wasted globally.” The
government said there were many__ 13__ to the problem of food waste. First, schools could__ 14__ children’s
awareness of food waste from a young age. Secondly, supermarkets could sell vegetables that are thrown away
because they are the “wrong” shape. Finally, “sell-by” dates, “use-by” dates and “best before” labels need to
change. Perfectly good food is thrown away because of these labels. Neil Parish added that: “Environmentally,
it is a disaster, because energy and resources are wasted in production, only for the food to __15__ rotting
in landfills where it produces methane--a potent climate-changing gas.” 【題組】12 (A) consumption (B) digestion (C) vegetation (D) habitation
2. Which is not a characteristic of exponential smoothing?
(A) smoothes random variations in the data
(B)) weights each historical value equally
(C)has an easily altered weighting scheme
(D) has minimal data storage requirements
(E) smoothes real variations in the data