Next week, as millions of families gather for their Thanksgiving feasts, many other Americans will go without. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, more than 12 million households lack enough food for everyone in their family at some time during the year---including holidays.

Hunger is surprisingly widespread in our country---one of the world’s wealthiest---yet the government estimates that we waste almost 100 billion pounds of food each year, more than one-quarter of our total supply.

Reducing this improper distribution of resources is a goal of America’s Second Harvest, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization. Last year, it distributed nearly 2 billion pounds of food to more than 23 million people in need.

America’s Second Harvest is a network of 214 inter-connected food banks and other organizations that gather food from growers, processors, grocery stores and restaurants. In turn, the network distributes food to some 50,000 soup kitchens,homeless shelters and old people’s centers in every county of every state.

A great deal of work is involved in distributing tons of food from thousands of donors to thousands of small, nonprofit organizations. Until a few years ago, America’s Second Harvest lacked any effective way to manage their inventory ( 存货 ). Without accurate and timely information, soup kitchens were sometimes empty while food was left to spoil in loading places.
In 2000, America’s Second Harvest began to use a new inventory and financial-management system---Ceres. It is software designed specifically for hunger-relief operations. It is used by more than 100 America’s Second Harvest organizations to track food from donation to distribution.
Ceres has helped reduce the spoiling of food and improve distribution. An evaluation found that the software streamlined( 提高效率 ) food banks’ operations by 23 percent in the first year alone.
With more accurate and timely reports, Ceres saves time, frees staff members to focus on finding new donors, and promises more efficient use of donations.

Hunger in America remains a troubling social problem. Technology alone cannot solve it. But in the hands of organizations such as America’s Second Harvest, it is a powerful tool that is helping to make a difference---and helping more Americans to join in the feast.

(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)

78. What is the total supply of food in America every year according to the passage ?

_____________________________________________________________.

79. By “ this improper distribution of resources ” in Paragraph 3, the writer means that many Americans ____________________________food while others ____________________________ food. 

80. What problem was America’s Second Harvest faced with in distributing food before Ceres was created?

_____________________________________________________________.

81. Thanks to ____________________________________________________ provided by Ceres, more staff are freed to be committed to finding new donors and America’s Second Harvest is able to give out food more efficiently. 

78. More than 400 billion pounds. 

79. we waste almost 100 billion pounds of food each year 

80. Lacking of effective way to manage their inventory. 

81. more accurate and timely reports on tracking food

2016年静安区高三一模的阅读C篇是一篇披着社会经济的科技文，介绍了America’s Second Harvest这一组织在2000年开始使用的Ceres这一软件。主要介绍了它的应用背景、应用方式和好处。最后得出结论：美国的饥饿问题依然存在，如Ceres这样的科技发展虽然能够对粮食问题的解决有所帮助，但是如America’s Second Harvest这样的组织机构也是强有力地问题解决者。

78. More than 400 billion pounds. 

解析：问美国每年的粮食总供给有多少。根据题干关键词total supply/ every year定位到文章第二段最后一句we waste almost 100 billion pounds of food each year，又说这个数字是more than one-quarter of our total supply，简单计算可知，总供给为more than 400 billion pounds of food.

79. waste/ lack of 

解析：题目问“”指的是什么？ 根据关键词定位到第三段第一句话Reducing this improper distribution of resources is a goal of America’s Second Harvest, 句中this可知答案在第一二两段，概括两段中主要句子如as millions of families gather for their Thanksgiving feasts, many other Americans will go without/ more than 12 million households lack enough food for everyone in their family/ we waste almost 100 billion pounds of food each year等即可以得出答案，这种分配不均主要是指有的美国人浪费大量食物而另外有一些却在经历饥荒。

80. Lacking of effective way to manage their inventory.

解析：问在使用Ceres之前，America’s Second Harvest这个机构在分发粮食时存在什么问题。定位到第五段最后第二句，可知问题主要是lacked any effective way to manage their inventory ( 存货 )，题干由what提问，因此进行基础的词性转换后得出答案为Lacking of effective way to manage their inventory.

81. more accurate and timely reports on tracking food

解析：问由于Ceres提供了什么，使得更多员工免除了寻找新捐赠者的麻烦并且机构也更加有效率。根据题干关键词more staff are freed/ more efficiently等定位到文章倒数第二段，可知是With more accurate and timely reports，又由于题干thanks to后面必需接名词或名词性词组、动名词，刚好与with结构后内容一致，得到答案more accurate and timely reports。