A. MOST B. ALMOST C. MOSTLY D. UTMOSTREAD THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AN...

29. A. most

B. almost

C. mostly

D. utmost

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each

of the questions from 30 to 34.

The popularity of organic foods can be traced to many people’s nostalgia for a simpler, more

pioneer-like life style. And many people believe that organic foods are safer than foods produced on a

large scale by traditional methods. Many people also believe that these organic foods contain more and

better nutrients than conventional food.

In fact, plants absorb all their food directly from the soil in inorganic form, no matter where the

nutrients may originally have come from. Experiments in Michigan and in England that went on for

twenty-five years were unable to find any difference in plants raised organically and plants raised with

chemical fertilizers. Things that do affect nutrient content are climate, time of harvest, and genetics -

but no difference results when plants are grown organically.

Neither are organically grown plants free from chemicals such as pesticides. Some pesticides leave

traces in the soil for years; these traces may be absorbed by the plant that is “organically” grown.

Rainfall may wash pesticides from neighboring farms onto “organic” fields, and sprays or other

applications of chemicals may drift and cause the same problem.

Furthermore, all foods - whether grown

conventionally

or organically - may contain toxic

substances to some degree; the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains constant checks to

ensure that these substances are kept at a harmless level. But aflatoxin, a mold that causes cancer, may

grow on crops such as peanuts, or be present in milk. Lead and arsenic are sometimes present in bone

meal or seafood. And many vegetables contain poisonous compounds such as oxalic acid and nitrite

compounds. The point is, all these toxins may be present in a given food, no matter how the food was

grown and cultivated. Toxic substances in food do not necessarily have to come from fertilizers or

chemical sprays.

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