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economic climate, the benefits that might accrue from them seem dubious. Promoters of GM crops believe
that the future population of the world cannot be fed without them. That is untrue. The crops that really
matter are wheat and rice, and there is no GM research in the pipeline that will seriously affect the yield of
either. GM is used to make production cheaper and hence more profitable, which is an extremely
questionable ambition.
The precautionary principle provides the world with a very important safeguard. If it had been in
place in the past, it might, for example, have prevented insouciant miners from polluting major rivers with
mercury. We have come to a sorry pass when scientists, who should above all be dispassionate scholars, feel
they should misrepresent such a principle for the purposes of commercial and political propaganda. People
at large continue to mistrust science and the high technologies it produces, partly because they doubt the
wisdom of scientists. On such evidence as this, these doubts are fully justified.
Questions 1-7 Complete the summary below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage. When applying precautionary principle to decide whether to invent a new technology, people should
also take into consideration of the
1 ………… , along with the usual consideration of
2 …………. For
example, though risky and dangerous enough, people still enjoy
3 ……………… for the excitement it
provides. On the other hand, experts believe the future population desperately needs
4 …………….. in spite
of their undefined risks. However, the researches conducted so far have not been directed towards increasing
the yield of
