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in the first paragraph probably means________.A.ignored B.discussedC.felt D.a(chǎn)voided5.Which of the following is true according to the passage?A.Gredder is head of Hats On Day project in the country.B.Gredder helps students to understand people in need through the project.C.Howell’s Land O’Pines School sets up a health curriculum to prevent cancer.D.Howell’s Land O’Pines School is the first one to practice Hats On Day project.(2010屆雙語報第14期)The American local food movement has been all about buying seasonal food from nearby ,thanks to the Web,it is expanding to include faraway farmers new start173。up,F(xiàn)oodzie,is an online farmers’ market where small food producers and growers can sell their products.Foodzie was started by Mr LaFave and two of his friends,who met during college at Virginia Tech,where they would pay frequent visits to farmers year,while living in North Carolina,one of them,Emily Olson,now 24,came up with the was working as a brand manager for a gourmet (美食的) grocery chain and realized that people who enjoyed fine food but did not work in the business had no way to discover handmade foods outside their local farmers farmers had no way of finding or selling to faraway customers,either.Mr LaFave and the third co173。founder,Nik Bauman,both 25,worked in corporate sales and software development.“With business,food and puter science backgrounds,we figured we had everything we needed,” Mr LaFave said.The three quit their jobs,and opened the site to the public in December, Foodzie,sellers set up virtual stores for free to post their food and tell shoppers about themselves,and Foodzie takes a 20 percent cut of each return,F(xiàn)oodzie serves as a takes the purchase information from the buyer,processes the payment and e173。mails the seller a prepaid shipping label.Foodzie has had 43,0000 visitors in the past month far,29 sellers have opened shops and 41 are in the process of opening founders recently hired a fourth employee to help recruit (吸收) new food producers at farmers markets and food LaFave is convinced that the recession (經(jīng)濟衰退) will not reduce people’ s interest in buying locally grown and handmade food.“There is a misunderstanding that all these foods are more expensive than mass173。produced