The Academic passage & The True Cost of Food is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Ideally, you should not spend more than 20 minutes...
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The academic reading passage "The True Cost of Food" was included in an IELTS test.
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14- E
Explanation- The expense to "remove insect Cryptosporidium," a microscopic, one-celled parasite that causes illness, "from drinking water by water corporations" is mentioned in paragraph E. (purifying). Thus, once the parasites are eliminated, the water will be clean and suitable for domestic usage (also known as "domestic water").
15- B
Explanation- A number of farming-related processes are described in the first sentence of paragraph B, including "first, mechanisation, then mass use of chemical fertilisers, then monocultures, then battery rearing of cattle, and now genetic engineering" (stages). Additionally, the rise (or "spread") in "yields of produce" and "onward march of intensive farming" claim that it is a "development" process.
16-C
Explanation- The author claims in paragraph C that economists refer to all damages that occur "beyond the core transaction" as externalities and that they are "bearing directly neither by producers nor consumers." The costs "may not even appear to be pecuniary at all," it is stated (hidden cost). Externalities are therefore the term used to characterise unintended expenditures.
17-B
Explanation- The 'growth of algae' (one effect) is increasing in 'lakes' (the water supply) as a result of 'the fertiliser run-off,' according to the last sentence of paragraph B. (chemicals). Algal bloom, also known as a rapid growth in the algal population in water resources, is one of the results of the use of chemicals like pesticides and fertilisers on various water sources including rivers and lakes.
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