問題詳情

Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies, andconsumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops. In Japan and South Korea, somemanufacturers for the first time have begun buying genetically engineered corn for use in soft drinks, snacks, and otherfoods. 37 But with prices having tripled in two years, it has become too expensive to be so finicky. 38 “Wecannot afford it,” said a corn buyer at Kato Kagaku, a Japanese maker of corn starch and corn syrup.In the United States, wheat growers and marketers, once hesitant about adopting biotechnology because theyfeared losing export sales, are now warming to it as a way to bolster supplies. 39 Opponents continue to worrythat such crops have not been studied enough and that they might pose risks to health and the environment. 40 TakeUnited States Wheat Associates, a federally supported cooperative that promotes American wheat abroad, for example.The group, which once cautioned farmers about growing biotech wheat, is working to get seed companies to restartdevelopment of genetically modified wheat and to get foreign buyers to accept it.
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(A) Many food manufacturers are trying to have their voice heard.
(B) However, price and supply concerns seem to have people thinking a little bit differently today.
(C) Until now, to avoid consumer backlash, the companies have paid extra to buy conventionally grown corn.
(D) Genetically modified crops will be essential for helping the world cope with the demand for food in thedecades ahead.

參考答案

答案：C
難度：適中0.574468
統計：A(2),B(7),C(27),D(9),E(0)

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