Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 40 to 44
Today, many governments are promoting organic or natural farming methods (40) _________ use of pesticides and other artificial products. The aim is to show that they (41) ____________ environment and about people's health. But is this the right approach?
Europe is now the biggest (42) _____________ for organic food in the world, expanding by 25 percent a year over the past 10 years, Eating organic is (43) ____________ way of defining oneself as natural, good, caring different from the junk-food-scoffmg masses. As a journalist puts it: "It feels closer to the source, the beginning, the start of things".
The organic approach means farming with natural, rather than man-made. Techniques such as crop rotation improve soil quality and help organic farmers compensate for the absence of man-made chemicals (44) ______________ for its ineffective use of land and labour, there are severe limits to how much food can be produced.
(Adapted from IELTS by Cambridge)
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