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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Exam Skills Trainer 2 for the textbook Solutions Advanced - Workbook with authors Tim Falla and Paul A. Davies from Oxford University Press

Question

You are going to read four extracts from articles in which experts give their opinions on what would happen if the world decided to go meat free. For questions 1-4, choose from the experts A-D. The experts may be chosen more than once.

Answer

  1. D [A: ... supermarkets stock a variety of meat-free options these days, and it’s much easier to eat out. D: If the world became vegetarian, there would only be salad on the menu!]
  2. A [C: ... keeping fewer animals would help us save water ... giving up meat for one day saves the same amount of water used daily by nine people. A: We could use our valuable water supply for human consumption rather than having to reserve so much for the cattle we keep.]
  3. C [A: ... too much can have a detrimental effect. B: ... a vegetarian diet can prevent harmful medical conditions ... D: ... a meat-free diet may reduce the chances of developing certain illnesses ... C: ... would not necessarily give people the nutrients they have until now obtained from meat, which would lead to more sickness and disease ...]
  4. B [D: ... surely, the fumes from a greater number of harvesting and processing machines would outweigh the lack of gases produced by cows ... B: ... there would be a massive drop in greenhouse gas emissions ...]