翻译题 【F1】A leaked study examining genetically-modified corn reveals that the lab-made alternative to organic crops contains a startling level of toxic chemicals.
【F2】An anti-GMO website has posted the results of an education-based consulting company's comparison of corn types, and the results reveal that genetically modified foods may be more hazardous than once thought.
The study, the 2012 Corn Comparison Report by Profit Pro, was published recently on the website for Moms Across America March to Label GMOs, a group that says they wish to "raise awareness and support Moms with solutions to eat GMO Free as we demand GMO labeling locally and nationally simultaneously." They are plotting nationwide protests scheduled for later this year.
The report, writes the website's Zen Honeycutt, was provided by a representative for De Dell Seed Company, an Ontario-based farm that's touted as being Canadian only non-GMO corn seed company. "The claims that 'There is no difference between GMO corn and NON Gmo corn' are false," says Honeycutt, who adds she was "floored" after reading the study. According to the analysis, GMO corn tested by Profit Pro contains a number of elements absent from traditional corn, including chlorides, formaldehyde and glyphosate.【F3】While those elements don't appear naturally in corn, they were present in GMO samples to the tune of 60 ppm, 200 ppm and 13 ppm, respectively.
Honecutt says that the United States Environmental Protection Agency(FDA)mandates that the level of glyphosate in American drinking water not exceed 0.7 ppm and adds that organ damage in some animals has been linked to glyphosate exposure exceeding 0.1 ppm. "Glyphosate is a strong organic phosphate chelator that immobilizes positively charged minerals such as manganese, cobalt, iron, zinc and copper."【F4】Dr. Don Huber attested during a separate GMO study recently released, adding that those elements "are essential for normal physiological functions in soils, plants and animals". "Glyphosate draws out the vital nutrients of living things and GMO corn is covered with it." adds Honeycutt, who notes that the nutritional benefits rampant in natural corn are almost entirely removed from lab-made seeds:【F5】in the samples used during the study, non-GMO corn is alleged to have 437-times the amount of calcium in genetically modified versions, and 56-and 7-times the level of magnesium and manganese, respectively.
问答题 6.【F1】
【正确答案】一项被泄漏出来的检测转基因玉米的研究揭示,实验室造出的有机玉米替代品中的有毒化学物质含量惊人。
【答案解析】 本文主要介绍了转基因玉米的危害性。第一段:揭示实验室造出的有机玉米替代品中含有有毒物质。第二段:反转基因食品网站揭示转基因食品的危害很大。第三、四段:介绍咨询公司Profit Pro的2012玉米比较研究报告的意图、来源及其内容。第五段:分析转基因玉米中草甘膦的有害影响。
问答题 7.【F2】
【正确答案】一家反转基因食品网站已经上传了某教育型咨询公司对两种玉米的比较结果,结果揭示转基因食品的危害可能比人们先前认为的更大。
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问答题 8.【F3】
【正确答案】天然玉米中不含这些物质,但在转基因玉米的样品中,这几种物质的含量却分别高达百万分之六十、百万分之二百和百万分之十三。
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问答题 9.【F4】
【正确答案】胡贝尔博士(在这个独立转基因研究报告中)还补充道,这些化学元素“对于土壤、植物和动物的正常生理机能至关重要”。
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问答题 10.【F5】
【正确答案】在研究所用的样品中,据称非转基因玉米中的钙含量是转基因玉米的437倍,镁含量和锰含量也分别是转基因玉米的56倍和7倍。
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