Recently I was invited to a friend's house for supper — and had a meal I have never had before.
All the friends invited were a little1It's not that Ben is unsociable, or a bad cook, but it's just that he never 2more than he has to. So how come he was inviting us round for a meal? Had he bought something 3for his friends? He greeted us at the door and showed us into his dinning room where a 4table was waiting for us. “Nothing but the 5for my friends!” said Ben. We all sat down and looked 6at each other — what did he7to?
Ben returned with four bowls of hot soup. “It's a 8of carrots, potatoes and tomatoes,” said Ben. The next 9was also a little strange in that we didn't quite know what it was again. It's just 10mixture of vegetables.
As we ate we chatted and finally the11turned back to what we were eating. “Was there a recipe(食谱)for this,” asked Marina , “or did you 12it up?” Ben put his fork down. “What I cooked 13what I could find.” Marina was surprised. “But you can find anything in supermarkets these days.” “But there's 14choice in what you can find 15supermarkets,” he replied.
16that we had all finished the food, Ben decided to tell the truth. He had read recently that supermarkets usually 17away 5 percent of their food every day. So Ben decided to look inside his local supermarket bins. There he found food that was slightly out of 18 boxes of throw-away vegetables and fruit.
So Ben had19provided a decent (不错的) meal for his friends, and made us aware of the fact that there are many poor people who need the food, but the amount of food thrown away is enough to 20millions of people.
