Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word (s) for each of the blanks.
From the seeds themselves to the machinery, fertilizers and pesticides –The Green Revolution regimen depends heavily on technology. One (4)_____, however , depends much(5)_________on technology – organic farming . Many organic farmers use machinery, but (6)_____chemical fertilizers or pesticides .(7)______chemical soil enriches , they use animal manure and plant part not used as food – natural , organic fertilizers that are clearly a renewable (8)_____.Organic farmers also use alternatives (9)_____pesticides ; for example they many rely on natural predators of certain insect pets.(10)___ the need arises ; they can buy the eggs and larvae of these natural predators and introduce them into their crop fields . They use(11)_____techniques to control pests as well , like planting certain crops together because one crop repels the other’s pests . Organic farmers do not need a lot of land ; (12)_____, organic farming is perfectly (13)_____to small farm and is relatively inexpensive .Finally , many organic farmers’ average yields compare favorably with other farmers’ yields.
Trả lời câu hỏi dưới đây:
__________(7)
Đáp án là D. instead of : thay vì. Nghĩa câu: Instead of chemical soil enriches , they use animal manure and plant part not used as food – natural,… ( Thay vì bón phân hóa học cho đất, họ sử dụng phân động vật và thực vật không được sử dụng làm thức ăn tự nhiên, .... )
Các từ còn lại: in spite of: mặc dù; on account of : do, vì; in favor of :vì/cho lợi ích của