Reading 2/2:
applications of pesticide frequently cost farmers more than they saved. Such waste puts farmers on a chemical treadmill: bugs and weeds become resistant to poisons, so next year's poisons must be more lethal. One cost is to human health, every year some 10.000 people die from pesticide poisoning, and make soil erosion worse.
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Section F
By 2020s, some of the world's food production will move from Western Europe to regions where subsidies are lower or non-existent, such as the former communist countries and parts of the developing world. Some environmentalists worry about this outcome. It will undoubtedly mean more pressure to convert natural habitat into farmland. But it will also have many desirable environmental effects. The intensity of farming in the rich world should decline, and the use of chemical inputs will diminish. Crops are more likely to grown up in the environments to which they are naturally suited. And more farmers in poor countries will have the money and the incentive to manage their land in ways that are sustainable in the long run. That is important. To feed an increasingly hungry world, farmers need every incentive to use their soil and water effectively and efficiently.
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.
BCDE E
highlight the responsibilities of the government and emphasize the need to scrape off some policies.
Next Question
make sense of the economic benefits of exploiting natural resources.. call on the government to encourage companies of coal-mining.
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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
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.
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
A. is caused by natural disasters.
ABCDE
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
A. more than doubled the amount of pesticide they used in just 3 years
B. have used 7 folds of fertilizers than they did from 1960 to 1985
