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© 2019 british council www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish reading: c1 a threat to bananas read a text about a fungus threatening bananas to practise and improve your reading skills. before reading do the preparation task first. then read the text and do the exercises. preparation task match the definitions (a–h) with the vocabulary (1–8). vocabulary definitions 1. …… resistant 2. …… fungus 3. …… a plantation 4. …… lucrative 5. …… a shoot 6. …… a stem 7. …… to quarantine 8. …… a monoculture a. makes a lot of profit b. a baby plant c. the long thin part of a plant d. the family that mushrooms belong to e. not affected by something f. a large area where crops are grown, for example tea and coffee g. one kind of crop with no others grown for variety h. to isolate something so that nothing else can touch it or be affected …

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cutting down rainforest to do so. © 2019 british council www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish their efforts failed. so, instead, they searched for a variety of banana that the fungus didn’t affect. they found the cavendish, as it was called, in the greenhouse of a british duke. it wasn’t as well suited to shipping as the gros michel, but its bananas tasted good enough to keep consumers happy. most importantly, tr-1 didn’t seem to affect it. in a few years, united fruit had saved itself from bankruptcy by filling its plantations with thousands of the new plants, copying the same monoculture growing conditions gros michel had thrived in. while the operation was a huge success for the latin american industry, the cavendish banana itself is far from safe. in 2014, south east asia, another major banana producer, exported four million tons of cavendish bananas. but, in 2015, its exports had dropped by 46 per …

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before it, the risk is that another strain of the disease may rise up to threaten the modified plants too. © 2019 british council www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish tasks task 1 circle the best answer. 1. mass-produced bananas are … a. grown from seeds because its efficient. b. cloned because it’s a fast and cheap way to grow them. c. sweeter than other bananas. d. exported to central america. 2. the spread of the tr-1 strain was … a. caused by lack of water. b. speeded up by the flooding of banana fields. c. slowed down by crop spraying. d. helped by the movement of people and vehicles. 3. which sentence is not true? a. the cavendish replaced the gros michel. b. the cavendish bananas were easier to transport than the gros michel. c. the cavendish was resistant. d. the cavendish stopped united fruit from losing more money. 4. south east asia’s cavendish …

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………………………… and ……………………………… for consumers 6. vulnerable to the ……………………………… strain of the fungus fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense 7. at risk in ……………………………… 8. attempt to save the banana: ……………………………… discussion what do you think of the solution to genetically modify the cavendish banana? © 2019 british council www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish answers preparation task 1. e 2. d 3. f 4. a 5. b 6. c 7. h 8. g task 1 1. b 2. d 3. b 4. a 5. d 6. c task 2 1. tr-1 2. ships well 3. central america 4. to new locations/flooding banana fields 5. grows easily/tastes good enough 6. tr-4 7. south east asia 8. genetically modifying crops reading: c1 a threat to bananas before reading preparation task reading text: a threat to bananas tasks task 1 task 2 discussion answers preparation task task 1 task 2

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© 2019 british council www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish reading: c1 a threat to bananas read a text about a fungus threatening bananas to practise and improve your reading skills. before reading do the preparation task first. then read the text and do the exercises. preparation task match the definitions (a–h) with the vocabulary (1–8). vocabulary definitions 1. …… resistant 2. …… fungus 3. …… a plantation 4. …… lucrative 5. …… a shoot 6. …… a stem 7. …… to quarantine 8. …… a monoculture a. makes a lot of profit b. a baby plant c. the long thin part of a plant d. the family that mushrooms belong to e. not affected by something f. a large area where crops are grown, …

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