Unit 4 课下题型练(四) Extended reading & Project &Assessment 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