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Exercise 1 PART V READING COMPREHENSION In this section there are several reading passages followed by twenty questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on your answer sheet. TEXT A Transgenic technology has made certain contributions to enhancing agricultural productivity. By manipulating and crossing the genes of certain species of plants, crops can be healthier, bigger, cleaner and tastier--but the result is frankenfood,” products made from these modified plants. Since the United States began to grow gene-modified plants on a large scale in 1996, gene-modified foods have spread throughout the world at an amazing speed. According to a recent survey, the total area devoted worldwide to gene-modified crops increased from 1.7 million hectares in 1996 to 58.67 million hectares in 2002. About 80 percent of this total was planted with gene-modified beans and corns. China has grown gene-modified crops on an area of more than 67,000 hectares and approved to spread six varieties of these crops, including gene-modified tomatoes and rapes. Gene-modified potatoes and peppers have also debuted on the market. Transgenic technology has been applied for growing cotton reached 1.5 million hectares, accounting for one-third of the countrys total cotton output. Beginning on March 20, 2002, China carried out a new provision on management of transgenic agricultural products that the products processed with gene-modified materials must be labelled. On July 1, 2002 the Ministry of Health also issued measures on management of gene-modified food, by which, foods containing modified genes must be labelled. Recently, however, 14 brands of edible oil processed with gene-modified beans found on store shelves had no gene-modified labels. The producers were asked to stop selling the oils and have their products labeled within a limited tim