Every year at Halloween, American kids of all ages go trick-or-treating.
They hope to bring home as much candy as possible. Twelve-year-old Madelynne Caralli goes trick-or-treating, too. She is happy to get candy. But she really wants food. Madelynne trick-or-treats for donations to give to hungry people.
Madelynne’s project began several years ago. When she read a book about children who volunteer in their neighborhoods, she decided to collect food for a food bank. “My mom explained to me that there are people who don’t have any food, and I wanted to help them,” she explained.
Madelynne and her mother visited the food bank website to find out what kinds of food were needed. Then they got in touch with people in their neighborhood and told them that Madelynne would be looking for donations at Halloween. She and her mother suggested things like canned soups---food that can be stored for a long time.
On the night she trick-or-treats, Madelynne puts on her costume and walks through the neighborhood collecting food. She says she has been surprised to see how much food people are willing to give. Last Halloween, “some people gave me so much that the bags are breaking,” she says.
In the past four years, Madelynne has collected a total of 645 pounds of food. That amount of food helped feed 16 families for a week! Madelynne doesn’t carry all the food herself. Her friend Jordyn helps her carry the heavy bags. After Halloween, Madelynne and her mother take the food to the food bank. There it is sorted and then given to people who need it. This year, Madelynne plans on trick-or-treating her grandmother’s neighborhood as well as her own.
The neighbors also give Madelynne candy for her own trick-or-treating bag. But according to Madelynne, her favorite part of Halloween is not the candy. It is “the feeling that I am helping people.”
21. Why does Madelynne want food at Halloween?
A. Because she doesn’t like candy.
B. Because she wishes to help hungry people.
C. Because she hopes to be different from other kids.
D. Because she wants to remind people not to waste food.
22. Madelynne started the project after she____.
A. visited the food bank website
B. read a book about some volunteer children
C. got in touch with people in her neighborhood
D. knew many people didn’t have any food at Halloween
23. This year, Madelynne plans to ______.
A. prepare more bags to hold food for hungry people
B. collect food as well as ask for candy in her neighborhood
C. ask her friend Jordyn to help her carry the food to the bank
D. look for donations in her grandmother’s neighborhood too
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The following is an imaginary diary entry written by US president. This diary is part of Global Trends 2025, which was written by the US National Intelligence Council
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Global wealth and economic power will shift from West to East.
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The transition from old fuels to new will be slow, as will the development of new technologies that present feasible alternatives to fossil fuels or help eliminate food and water problems. All current technologies are inadequate, and new ones will probably not be commercially possible by 2025