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1. Super food guy勇敢的牙买加少年在美国小城里掀起食物革命。 IN 2010 when Kevon Johnson was 13 years old, he left Jamaica (牙买加) to live with his mother and sisters in Hartford, Connecticut. He quickly found life in the US was new and challenging, 1. e________ when it came to food. “I didn’t like the way the chicken tasted. It tasted spoiled,” Johnson, now 18, recalled. “And the fruit 2.t_______ like it was picked too early.” In his family’s old home in Jamaica, there were goats and chickens everywhere. As 3.____ fresh fruit, “I’d just climb up a tree and pick it 4.m_______,” he said. But in Hartford, Johnson found that fresh food was harder to get. Stores sell a lot of processed foods (加工食品). And his family liked the cheap fast food 5._____ can be found everywhere. With concerns for his family’s 6.h______, larger questions about obesity (肥胖) and how to get fresh food, Johnson joined Grow Hartford. This is a youth program that has been harvesting vegetables on urban (城市的) farms and promoting (提倡) healthy food. Johnson quickly became a top youth leader for Grow Hartford. All while in high school, he worked as an urban farmer and 7.______(教育) people about the lack of full-service supermarkets in poor cities. He has done workshops (讲座) for groups including the Boys and Girls Club and Hartford Parent University. He also wants schools to have tastier and different types of school lunches, such as a weekly meal with Puerto Rican or Western Indian cuisine (饮食). Students would enjoy the different tastes and eat 8._____ junk food, he said. Johnson’s suggestions have been 9._____ (接受)by the Hartford school system. He was also 10._______ as the youth winner of the 2015 Hartford Community Food Security Award because of his outstanding work. 2. AS more adults turn to meditation (冥想) for peace, more children are taking up this practice too. 1.______ Here are some simple meditation exercises kids can try. Look at clouds On nice days, go outside, lie down on the grass and loo