厦门大学英语专业考研英语基础知识2005.doc

厦门大学2005年招收攻读硕士学位研究生
入学考试试题
招生专业:外国语言学及应用语言学考试科目及代码:321 英语基础知识
研究方向: 英语应用语言学英美文学叙述学
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Part I: prehension (50%)
Directions: Read the following passages and answer the questions after each passage. Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet only.
Passage 1
anically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates anic foods---a term whose meaning varies greatly—frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.
The growing interest of consumers in the safety and nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a e development. However, much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims that the food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs. Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to separate fact from fiction. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting entirely of organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to health have e widely publicized and form the basis for folklore.
Almost daily the public is besieged by claims for "no-aging" diets, new vitamins, and other wonder foods. There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated gains are better than fumigated grains, and the like.
One thing that anically grown food products seem to have mon is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods. But in many cases consumers are misled if they anic foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods. So there is real cause for concern if consumers, particularly those with limited es, distrust the regular