Reading Explorer 4-Unit 3-Communicative

Around how many children in the developing world die each year from eating contaminated food?

• 0.5 million

• 5 million

• 50 million

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Who would be most likely to use PulseNet?

• a chicken farmer

• a disease investigator

• a biotech food company

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What is salmonella?

• a type of flu virus

• a type of bacteria

• a type of biotech food

In the phrase GE crops, what does GE stand for?

• Grown Economically

• Greatly Enlarged

• Genetically Engineered

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Around 250 million children worldwide suffer from a deficiency of which vitamin?

• vitamin A

• vitamin B

• vitamin C

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What is “Golden rice”?

• a biotech food

• another name for “corn”

• high-priced rice

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The contamination of which kind of fruit led to an outbreak of food poisoning in Brazil in 1999?

• melons

• mangoes 

• bananas

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What is true about all chickens farmed in Sweden?

• They are salmonella-free.

• They are GE chickens.  

• They are extremely large.

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In the mid-1990s, some GE soybeans caused allergic reactions because they …

• contained salmonella

• were not washed properly

• were modified using nut genes

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The genes of which animal have been inserted into apple trees to add disease resistance?

• rats

• mosquitoes       

• moths

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