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1) The main idea of Section A is to
A. irritate that individuals can contribute to the reduction of natural resources consumption.
B. focus on policies that give benefits to the economy of a country without any consequences to the environment.
C. highlight the responsibilities of the government and emphasize the need to scrape off some policies.
D. make sense of the economic benefits of exploiting natural resources.
E. call on the government to encourage companies of coal-mining.
2) In Section B. the writer highlights that farming
A. cannot be done in Antarctica.
B. must be increased in order to provide the needs of growing population C. is the top human activity that affects the earth's surface due to the rise of population, and therefore and increase in demand to yield more crops that has pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
should be controlled in order to reduce the output per head which risen for 4% between 1970s to 1980s.
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E. is the only way to solve the problem of over population.
3) Research completed in 1982 found that in the United States soil erosion
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is caused by natural disasters.
must be increased in order to provide the needs of growing population
could be reduced by converting cultivated land to meadow or forest.
was causing dramatic damage to 20 per cent of farmland.reduced the productivity of farmland by 20 per cent.
4) By the year 2015, farmers in Denmark
more than doubled the amount of pesticide they used in just 3 years have used 7 folds of fertilizers than they did from 1960 to 1985
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used half of fertiliser than Dutch farmers used.
applied fertiliser much more frequently than in 1960.used 2 times as much fertiliser as they did around 60 years ago.
5) In Section E. states that
ABC A
. Wasted crops puts farmers on a chemical treadmill and kill bugs and weeds that are easy to eradicate
Damage to human health is one of the effects, every year some 10,000 people suffer from diseases caused by pesticide Governments do not give subsidies to farmers, therefore, they don't have a choice but to sacrifice large loss of crops
