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    NAME MARK

    Assessable
    TASK SURNAME(S)
    DATE: GROUP:

    READING (14 points)


    Read the text and answer the questions that follow.

    FANCY A LAB GROWN BURGER?


    I Tissue engineering, which helps to improve damaged cells or whole organs, has proved to be extremely
    useful for medical applications that extend our lives. However, we might question ourselves what’s the point of living
    with artificial organs for a much longer period and without disease if our planet is going to be barren and without
    food. The answer might be cultured meat, that is to say, meat produced in a laboratory, in a cell culture, rather than
    from an animal, but identical to the burgers you can find at any supermarket. This new type of meat has the potential
    to address huge global problems such as world hunger and global warming in the coming years. After all, if you look
    at the potential benefits of tissue engineering, food production for 9 billion people is going to be a much more
    relevant matter than merely prolonging their lives.

    After producing the first cow-less burger, which cost a massive €250,000 to grow, a researcher at the
    II
    University of Maastricht has become the public face of cultured meat. That first burger, which was financed by a co-
    founder of Google, was tasted live in London back in 2013. The price has since dropped to around €10 per burger,
    and several new companies in the US and in Israel are currently working on their own cultured meat products. In 3-4
    years’ time these companies might have launched some expensive burgers in small scale production. However,
    large-scale production with a price equal to regular meat will take much longer.

    III Lab grown meat is not only beneficial for humans. Animal welfare is an added benefit; however, if one had
    to prioritize, no doubt the environmental impact of protein production alternatives for beef and pork is even more
    important. More cultured meat means less pollution through fossil fuel usage, animal methane, effluent waste, and
    water and land consumption.

    1 Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text. NO MARKS are given for only TRUE or
    FALSE. (4 points)

    1. The University of Maastricht invested a total of a quarter of a million euros from its own budget in the first
    synthetic burger.
    ________________________________________________________________________________________________
    _______________________________________________________________________________________________

    2. It will take some time before the cultured burgers cost as much as regular ones.
    ________________________________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________________________________
    2 In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer the following questions. DO NOT COPY FROM THE TEXT.

    (4 points)
    1. Explain how tissue engineering may help biomedical research.
    ________________________________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________________________________

    2. What may be the effects of large-scale cultured meat production on global warming?
    ________________________________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________________________________

    3 Find the words in the text that mean: (4 points)

    1. entire (paragraph 1) ___________________________


    2. subsidised (paragraph 2) ___________________________
    3. fallen (paragraph 2) ___________________________
    4. nowadays (paragraph 2) ___________________________

    4 Find in the text one word meaning: (2 points)


    1. “physical and mental health and happiness”: _________________________
    2. “something that is different from something else, especially from what is usual, and offering the possibility of
    choice”: ____________________

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