Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Are organically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates of organic foods – a term whose meaning varies greatly – frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.
The growing interest of consumers in the safety and more nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development. However, much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims that the food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs. Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to separate fact from fiction. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting entirely of organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to health have become widely publicized and form the basis for folklore.
Almost daily the public is besieged by claims for “no-aging” diets, new vitamins, and other wonder foods. There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains and the like.
One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods. But in many cases consumers are misled if they believe organic foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods. So there is real cause for concern if consumers, particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food and buy only expensive organic foods instead.
The word “others” refers to _______.
A. advantages
B. advocates
C. organic foods
D. products
Đáp án D.
Key words: others, refer to.
Câu hỏi: Từ “others” trong bài văn được hiểu là gì?
Clue: “… such products are safer and more nutritious than others”: … các thực phẩm này an toàn hơn và có nhiều dinh dưỡng hơn các sản phẩm khác.
Phân tích: Tác giả đưa ra so sánh giữa hai vật, một là “such products” và hai là “others”. “Others” ở đây phải tương ứng với chủ ngữ đầu tiên, nên đầy đủ phải là “other products”. Vì vậy đáp án đúng phải là D. products: sản phẩm.
Các đáp án khác không phù hợp:
A. advantages: những điểm mạnh
B. advocates: những người tán thành
C. organic foods: thực phẩm hữu cơ
MEMORIZE
advocate / ˈædvəkeɪt / (v): ủng hộ, tán thành
advocate / ˈædvəkət / (n): người ủng hộ, người tán thành; luật sư
- advocate of sth/ peace/ socialism: người chủ trương hòa bình, người tán thành CNXH