2ill Blank question 2/3:
READING PASSAGE 2
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions below.
PALM OIL
I.Palm oil is an edible oil derived from the fruit of the African oil palm tree, and is currently the most consumed vegetable oil in the world. It's almost certainly in the soap we wash with in the moming, the sandwich we have for lunch, and the biscuits we snack on during the day. Why is palm oil so attractive to manufacturers? Primarily because its unique properties - such as remaining solid at room temperature - make it an ideal ingredient for long-term preservation, allowing many packaged foods on supermarket shelves to have 'best before' dates of months, even years, into the
future.
II. Many farmers have seized the opportunity to maximize the planting of oil palm trees. Between 1990 and 2012, the global land area devoted to growing oil palm trees grew from 6 to 17 million hectares, now accounting for around ten percent of total cropland in the entire world. From a mere two million tons of palm oil being produced annually globally 50 years ago, there are now around 60
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