Change our attitude, and we can make the world a better place.
改變我們的生活態度，我們能讓世界變得更美好。

　　We live in a world of paradoxes▼. One of them is the global food shortage that promises to be a _(1)_ in the very near future. But is it really a huge, unsolvable problem? True, millions of people, especially in Africa and Asia, _(2)_, balancing on the brink of death from hunger. But it is also true that in the West, about 40 percent of all food ends up in the _(3)_. In the US alone, an average family throws out over 1,000 pounds of food every year. With regard to the whole of the country, that _(4)_ a staggering waste of about US$165 billion. Of course, this problem is a big headache for the government and the UN authorities, so individual groups are taking an initiative to see what they can do in this _(5)_.
　　The so-called "sharing a refrigerator" campaign is gaining _(6)_ in Europe. In an office or a dormitory, people share the same fridge's contents instead of keeping an individual bottle of milk or a package of franks▼. It is amazing to see how the volume of wasted food has _(7)_ in this program. Of course, sharing a fridge requires certain rules: giving each person enough space, _(8)_ when the food was made, keeping the food in leak- and smell-proof containers, timelyreplenishing of the contents of the fridge, etc. 
　　You will also be surprised by how much such a practice organizes us: we become less selfish and more cooperative, we learn new skills of living in a community, and it wakes up our dormant▼ virtues of compassion and generosity. It really does not _(9)_ much to make our neighbors happy. 
　　The "sharing a fridge" initiative has been tried on a wider scale in the Basque province of Spain, under the name "Solidarity▼ Fridge," _(10)_ "public" fridges offer food and welcome donations right on the city streets. These may seem just like tiny steps in the right direction, but we should never forget that big things often result from small actions.

(A) many　(B) trash　(C) dwindled　(D) catastrophe
(E) starve　(F) uttering　(G) amounts to　(H) take
(I) popularity　(J) labeling　(K) where　(L) respect