Comprehension


Direction: In the following questions, you have three passages with 10 questions in each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question, out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
In his book about nutritional medicine, Dr. Ray D. Strand points out that our food industry, due to special transportation and storage techniques, has been able to make a wide variety of fruits and vegetables available nationwide throughout the year. The variety is good. But these are made available at a sacrifice. Green harvesting means picking fruits and vegetables before they mature. Shipping food over long distances requires cold storage and other preservation methods, which allow for depletion of vital nutrients. Our food is also highly processed. For example, the refinement process of our flour to create white bread removes more than twenty-three essential nutrients, magnesium being one of the most important. Our food industry then puts about eight of these nutrients back into our bread and calls it ‘‘enriched’’.

  1. Green harvesting is all about









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    picking fruits and vegetables before they mature

    Correct Option: B

    picking fruits and vegetables before they mature


  1. The author is talking about









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    the food industry in his own country

    Correct Option: A

    the food industry in his own country



  1. The refinement process of our flour to create white bread removes more than









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    twenty-three essential nutrients

    Correct Option: C

    twenty-three essential nutrients


  1. Shipping food over long distances allows for









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    depletion of vital nutrients

    Correct Option: D

    depletion of vital nutrients



  1. These days due to ______ a wide variety of fruits and vegetables is available nationwide throughout the year.









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    special transportation and storage techniques

    Correct Option: D

    special transportation and storage techniques