(四)GM food
It is hard to be a farmer. Cold weather can kill your crops. Bugs can eat your crops. Weeds can hurt
your crops. Your crops may need more rain than they get. Fruits and Vegetables can go bad before
they are sold. Some people say farmers can fix all of this with GM food.

What is GM food? All living things have DNA. DNA tells living things how to grow. These days,people
can change the DNA of the food, and we call it GM food.

Some GM food can grow in cold weather. GM food can stop bugs from eating it. GM fruits and vegetables can stay good longer. One day, people can grow GM food in dry land in Africa. GM food
can let people there have enough food to eat.

But there is a lot we do not know about GM food. Does GM food kill bugs we need, like butterflies?
Does GM food make birds sick? Does GM food make people sick, too? We do not know. Many tests
still need to do.
Rewrite from English Language Center study Zone

crops 農作物 rain 雨水 more… than 比..更多 vegetable 蔬菜
sold 賣出 living 活的 grow 生長,種植 tell 告訴 stop...from 阻止
longer 更長 kill 殺死 dry land 乾燥的土地 butterflies 蝴蝶

【題組】

9. Which makes it hard to be a farmer in the reading?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)