ACTIVITY
120:
Choose the right connector in each sentence.You can use them only once. Then
check the correct answers.
the increase in the world's population in recent years,
food production has so
far managed to keep pace
with it. Nevertheless,
it is doubtful whether
this can go on
indefinitely
better methods of production are evolved. The picture
is not completely black.
some experts insist on the inevitability of starvation,
others argue that we can
survive
we are willing to adapt ourselves to changing
circumstances,
it will be hard for us to break the habits of a
lifetime.
, most people find it difficult to adapt to the eating
customs of other
countries. Although they
have lived abroad for
many years, many English
people are incapable of
doing without tea;
, that is what they claim.
, it is hardly logical to pretend that something is
really necessary when
everyone else seems to
get on happily without
it.
, in the future we may have no choice in the matter. We
may be grateful for
anything that satisfies
our hunger and thirst,
however unappetising it
may appear.
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ACTIVITY 121:
Without looking at the original text on
the previous page, fill each of the blank spaces with one
suitable word. (Some blank spaces
accept more than one alternative). Then
check the correct answers.
FUTURE FOOD
What
of food are we
to be eating in the year 2030? Most
people, when you
them a question
that, either say: "There won't be any
left" or "
it is, there won't be much
in it". Of
there are good reasons
people are pessimistic about the
world's food supplies in the
.
On the other
,
not all the experts share the general despondency. For
thing, although the world's
population is
fast, food production is
pace with it, even in developing
countries. It is not
much that there is a world food
as that methods of cultivation are
not
advanced in some areas and the food
is not fairly distributed to all
that need it. But
if we succeed
overcoming the problem of
distribution, we may still find
having to change our diet.
