Английский. Вариант 5 Раздел Аудирование
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Now we are ready to start. Interviewer: George, most people today are very much concerned about healthy way of life, that is eating healthy food and doing things that are good for us. I know thatyou have a report today about the food we are going to eat in the next century. We have heard about the trend toward more chemicals in food, a fat substitute, for example, or a new artificial sugar. What do you think about it? George Smiles: We all know from mass media that America’s abundance is under attack. Ecological imbalance brings about erosion and pollution of our best farmlands. These facts are a matter of great concern for scientists, state leaders and ordinary people. They are driving researchers to find new ways to produce new types of food, the food for the future. Most food on grocery shelves in the future will look like what we buy today, but it actually will be vastly different. The most radical change will occur in the produce department, fruits and vegetables, in particular. Interviewer: Can you give us an example of the vegetables of the future. What kind of food could we be eating soon? George Smiles: Let’s speak about ordinary tomatoes. This soft red fruit can be eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable. Tomatoes will develop more sugar and be much tastier. Besides, once you picked them they may last one or two weeks longer before they go soft. These are tomatoes of the future. Their generic structure has been manipulated to make them less likely to spoil after being picked. Moreover, scientists have discovered how to make tomato products without growing tomato plants. Interviewer: Oh, it’s very interesting although it sounds unbelievable! Can you tell us more about this wonderful discovery? George Smiles: Yes, of course! Individual tomato cells are being grown in the laboratory. They have the taste and nutritional content of whole tomatoes and could replace them in processed tomato products like ketchup and soup. What’s more, this technology can help decrease farmlands shortages, as scientists can grow the equivalent of a whole acre of tomatoes in just a few bottles. Interviewer: Do you mean that instead of growing a field of tomatoes to produce tomato soup from, we can take tomato cells and make them into the soup without ever having to form a real tomato in itself? George Smiles: You are quite right! And farmland shortages could force a whole new kind of agriculture. There appear food factories, like the one at Epcot Center in Florida, where vegetables are grown on assembly lines. Look here. This squash, for example, is grown without soil, that is hydroponically, its roots bathed only in water and minerals. And there are other new plants which are surprisingly efficient, comparatively easy to produce and not too much overpriced as a result. Interviewer: Thank you very much for your interview. You have 15 seconds to complete the task. (Pause 15 seconds.) Now you will hear the texts again. (Repeat.) This is the end of the task. You now have 15 seconds to check your answers. (Pause 15 seconds.) This is the end of the Listening test. Время, отведенное на выполнение заданий, истекло. Приложение 2 Вариант №5. Ответы
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