HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY MID -TERM TEST ON DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH (No 2)

Subject Code: EN44

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I. Prove that the following passage is a written text.

Organic farming and chemical fertilisers

A The world’s population continues to climb. And despite the rise of high-tech
agriculture, 800 million people don’t get enough to eat. Clearly, it’s time to rethink
the food we eat and where it comes from. Feeding 9 billion people will take more
than the same old farming practices, especially if we want to do it without felling
rainforests and planting every last scrap of prairie. Finding food for all those people
will tax farmers’ – and researches’ – ingenuity to the limit. Yet already, precious
aquifers that provide irrigation water for some of the world’s most productive
farmlands are drying up or filling with seawater, and arable land in China is
eroding to create vast dust storms that redden sunsets as far away as North
America. “Agriculture must become the solution to environmental problems in 50
years. If we don’t have systems that make the environment better – not just hold
the fort-then we’re in trouble,” says Kenneth Cassman, an agronomist at the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln. That view was echoed in January by the Curry
report, a government panel that surveyed the future of farming and food in Britain.
B It’s easy to say agriculture has to do better, but what should this friendly
farming of the future look like? Concerned consumers come up short at this point,
facing what appears to be an ever-widening ideological divide. In one corner are
the techno-optimists who put their faith in genetically modified crops, improved
agrochemicals and computer-enhanced machinery; in the other are advocates of
organic farming, who reject artificial chemicals and embrace back-to-nature
techniques such as composting. Both sides cite plausible science to back their
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many people to come away thinking we’re faced with a stark choice between two
mutually incompatible options.
C Not so. If you take off the ideological blinkers and simply ask how the world
can produce the food it needs with the least environmental cost, a new middle way
opens. The key is sustainability: whatever we do must not destroy the capital of soil
and water we need to keep on producing. Like today’s organic farming, the
intelligent farming of the future should pay much more attention to the health of its
soil and the ecosystem it’s part of. But intelligent farming should also make shrewd
and locally appropriate use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. The most crucial
ingredient in this new style of agriculture is not chemicals but information about
what’s happening in each field and how to respond. Yet ironically, this key element
may be the most neglected today.

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II. Find grammatical and lexical cohesive devices employed in this text.
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III. Translate the text into Vietnamese.
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+ Sinh viên nộp file word lên hệ thống
+ Ghi rõ mã đề trong bài làm.
Chú ý:
+ Chế tài xử lý đối với bài phát hiện có sự sao chép ( VD: nếu phát hiện sao chép thì bài làm của
sinh viên sẽ không được công nhận và nhận điểm 0….)
+ Giảng viên có thể trao đổi, nhận xét góp ý cho bài làm của sinh viên trên diễn đàn hoặc buổi
Vclass (SV tham gia lớp Vclass đầy đủ để được giải đáp)