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, ...

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)

Today, many governments are promoting organic or natural farming methods (40) _________ use of pesticides and other artificial products.