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 “welcome development” is an increase in _______.
A. interest in food safety and nutritional quality of the typical North American diet
B. the nutritional quality of the typical North American diet
C. the amount of healthy food grown in North America
D. the number of consumers in North America
Đáp án A.
Key words: welcome development, increase.
Câu hỏi: Cụm “welcome development” là chỉ sự tăng của cái gì?
Clue: “The growing interest of consumers in the safety and more nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development”: Sự ưa chuộng đang gia tăng của người tiêu dùng về thực phẩm an toàn và chất lượng dinh dưỡng của thực đơn điển hình vùng Bắc Mỹ là sự phát triển đáng hoan nghênh.
Phân tích: Xét các đáp án:
A. Interest in food safety and nutritional quality of the typical North American diet: sự ưa chuộng thực phẩm an toàn và chất lượng dinh dưỡng của thực đơn điển hình vùng Bắc Mỹ - Đúng, khớp với Clue.
B. The nutritional quality of the typiecal North American diet: chất lượng dinh dưỡng của thực đơn điển hình vùng Bắc Mỹ - Sai, chưa đầy đủ thông tin ở Clue.
C. The amount of healthy food grown in North America: lượng thức ăn an toàn được trồng ở Bắc Mỹ - Không có thông tin.
D. The number of consumers in North America: số lượng người tiêu dùng ở Bắc Mỹ - Không có thông tin.