Reading Final Test: 10%

Read the text: “Genetically Modified Foods.” Answer the following questions. /50 A.

Match the synonym or definition below with the word from the paragraph. The (number) in parenthesis refers to the paragraph number. / 16
(1) interfering - meddling
(2) Amount of food collected from a field - crops
(3) person who grows plants - breeder
(4) make better - improve
(5) things that are planned - obvious
(6) freedom from harm or danger - safety
(7) occurring in many places - outcry
(8) amount by which something is deficient B. - shortages

Comprehension / 3
1. State the thesis or main point of the text as a whole.
GM foods are not as bad as we might think, or as people wants us to believe it.

2. How, well in your opinion, does the author support her point of view? / 3
Well, she's supporting my point of view by saying that we shouldn't criticized too fast and that we should always show both side of every story. Too often things are hidden to people things or only the side that will makes us support the point of view they want is showed. So in that way, the author really relied to what I think. Saying especially that everything has good and bad sides.

3. How does this text relate to the readings in our textbook in the unit, GMF? / 4
Well both of them we're talking of GM food but with a different opposition. In our textbook it was talking more about the bad sides of it, but in this text they tried to show the good sides of it, a part that we hardly know actually.

4. In one or two sentences, write the main idea of each paragraph in your own words. / 24
Paragraph 1: Interfering with nature is something that has been made since the age of time.

Paragraph 2 : What is the process to gros food and always have the best crops.

Paragraph 3: How they used a way to accelerate the growing of food.

Paragraph 4: Besides what critics might say it's something really natural if we compare to reality.

Paragraph 5: Two great and positive achievements of GM foods that we don't read in the newspaper.

Paragraph 6: Gm foods don't increase the danger related to food more than anything else in reality. With or without, there are as many dangers.

Paragraph 7: The food growing from GM nature are not a threat to environnement or animal or insect or everything in it. Based on the Monarch case, experience were really positive to it.

Paragraph 8: GM foods is not the only solution, but there's a lot of problem to stop in the world and while people tried to stop GM foods it has gain more positive solution than a lot of other bad things.


Writing Final Test: 10%