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Read the excerpt from "GM Food: Fuel for Our Future.” Also, crops can be genetically engineered to be more nutritious. Golden rice, for example, has been altered to have more vitamin A than spinach. This is important because according to Scientific American, "Vitamin A deficiency causes more than one million deaths annually and half a million cases of irreversible blindness in the developing world.” Golden rice alone could help save millions of lives and prevent blindness. Overall, our growing world desperately needs GM food to survive. The food these crops produce costs less and is safer and more nutritious than anything you could get from a traditional crop. As you can see, the benefits of GM food outweigh the far-fetched, unsubstantiated risks that critics have put forth.
Which phrases from the excerpt support the author’s argument that genetically modified food is safe? Check all that apply.
more vitamin A you can see could help save traditional crop unsubstantiated risks more nutritious
Answer:
1. More Vitamin A.
2. Could help save.
3. More nutritious.
Explanation:
From the excerpt, an argument is made for genetically modified foods and how necessary they are for everyone, especially nutrition-wise.
GM foods are argued to be more superior to other foods and safe by using phrases like "more vitamin A". "Could help save" and "More nutritious" because it shows that it has more nutrients in it and could help keep people safe and satisfied.
It demonstrates it bye seeing how life had changed and begun anew
Answer:
It indicates that the gangsters are looking for vulnerable people.
It supports the idea that the gangsters are involved in criminal activities.
Explanation:
In Sonia Nazario's "Enrique's Journey", the protagonist Enrique left home on a quest to find his real mother who had left him to work in America. Feeling a sense of abandonment from his mother Lourdes, leaving him in Honduras, and his beloved uncle's death compelled him to try to reunite with his mother no matter what, thus his journey.
The given passage is from the chapter "Staying Awake" where Enrique along with others were atop the moving train trying to get to America. The excerpt reveals how those on the roof of the trains were targeted by the gangsters operating around the area. The vulnerable people end up being the target of these gangsters who are involved in illegal criminal activities, with the "<em>forgiving</em>" nature of the police in Chiapas. The author's use of the word "prowl" supports the dangerous manner in which these gangsters are involved, leading further to the suffering of others.
Answer:
<h3>It conveys that he had been carefully looking for a woman.</h3>
Explanation:
- This passage from William Shakespeare's "Tempest" narrates how Ferdinand lets Miranda know that he has never seen a woman like her.
- Ferdinand says that he has liked many women and had been consciously looking for someone who really has everything that he wants but he fails to find that one particular women.
- By 'diligent' in the line "Brought my too diligent ear", Ferdinand means to say that he had been looking for that someone consciously and carefully. And it seems like Miranda is that women who he has been looking for.
