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🍔 Fast Food Durability

(1)
Fast food restaurants, especially some American chains, have become very popular all over the world. One of the most famous produces a meal especially designed for children called a "Children's Meal." The package contains not only a hamburger and French fries, but also a plastic toy as a prize. Most children beg their parents to take them out for such a treat, preferring it to the more nutritious, if boring, home-cooked meal.

(2)
What is so special about this fast-food favorite? Well, for one thing, it will last forever, will not rot or mold, and even bacteria will not eat it! It is essentially no different from the plastic toy included with the meal. In April 2010, New York artist and photographer Sally Davies bought a Children's Meal and left it out on her kitchen shelf to see what would happen to it. She photographed it each week, and by October—six months later—it appeared to be exactly the same! The only thing she noted was that the "food" had become as hard as a rock and looked like plastic. Her experiment became famous and is known as "The Children's Meal Art Project."

(3)
Sally Davies was not the first one to test the durability of a fast-food hamburger. In 2008, a teacher named Karen Hanrahan posted photos on the Internet of a hamburger she purchased at the famous fast-food chain in 1996. After 12 years, the burger looked exactly the same as the day she bought it. The bun was a bit harder, and the burger itself was beginning to crumble, but essentially, it was unchanged. She still keeps this hamburger and shows it to her classes to teach them about the dangers of eating such "non-food." She tells them that this is a chemical food, and there is absolutely no nutrition in it, nothing of value for the health of the human body. It does nothing more than fill your stomach. It is certainly not a treat," she says.

(4)
When we read the list of ingredients in all these so-called meals and burgers, we must wonder why there are tens of different chemicals, preservatives, artificial flavors and so on along with the potato, meat, cheese and bread ingredients. This American-based fast food chain ships all its food from large central factories to branches throughout the entire world. One of their hamburgers here tastes exactly the same as it does in China and probably lasts just as long as well.

📝 Questions

1. What is the main idea of the passage?
   A. making discoveries takes time
   B. Fast food is popular around the world
   ✅ C. We need to be more aware of what we eat
   D. Photograph is an effective way to communicate

2. According to Paragraph (2), how long did Sally Davies photograph the same "Children's Meal"?
   A. until it was just like the toy
   ✅ B. every week for 6 months
   C. until it looked different
   D. every day for 6 weeks

3. The word essentially in Paragraph (2) is closest in meaning to........
   A. closely
   ✅ B. basically
   C. normally
   D. strongly

4. Which paragraph discusses using a hamburger to teach about bad eating habits?
   A. Paragraph (1)
   B. Paragraph (2)
   ✅ C. Paragraph (3)
   D. Paragraph (4)

5. Which of the following is TRUE?
   ✅ A. Several people have proven the durability of fast-food burgers.
   B. Parents prefer home-cooked food to fast food burgers.
   C. Fast food burgers are cheap and widely available.
   D. Children's Meals are very popular in China.

6. According to the passage, why do hamburgers stay the same after a long period?
   A. They are of very high quality.
   ✅ B. They contain a lot of chemicals.
   C. They are produced in large factories.
   D. They have many different ingredients.