Gapfill 5

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
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The kitchen
A visit to your local supermarket is a journey around the world - apples from South America, grapes from South Africa, beans from West Africa and lamb from New Zealand. There are of trade with other countries, however unlimited of products around the World is very and not .
The dilemma
The organic does not low during production and . For not all choices are clear. Is it better to buy a locally produced tomato, grown with pesticides and perhaps in a heated greenhouse, than to buy an organic tomato, produced far away and by road all the way to the shop?
The answers are:
- Choose products with good agricultural and environmental practices (e.g. organic): No pesticide residues
- Choose fruits and vegetables of the season
- Choose products produced as locally as possibly: Less transport