Reading: The article introduced a kind of plant which called GM (Gene Modification) crop. It has three major benefits: 1. It is good for the environment because it has the resist-gene. Using GM crop can reduce the use of pesticide. 2. It can help poor farmers around the world. GM crop can also have good yield in dry season which will profit the farmer. 3. GM plant can add missing nutrients for people in specific area. For example people eating a lot rice lack of Vitamin A, so GM rice which had added Vitamin A in it can help people gain what they missed. Listening: The lecture totally disagreed in those three aspects: 1. If the resist-gene is got by the wild crop, it will grow out of control which brings more damage to the environment. 2. Those GM crop cannot help farmers economically because they need to buy those GM seeds every year instead of using the seeds they got from the last season. It is more costly. 3. The Vitamin A added in the rice is not enough. The more efficient way to deal with this problem is encouraging those people eating more vegetable like sweet potato.
The reading and the listening both discuss three major benefits of GM crop. However, what the reading suggests is quite different from the main idea in the listening. First, the author considers that using GM crop is good for the environment because it has the resist-gene. In contrast, the professor disagrees with such point and says that if the resist-gene is got by the wild crop, it will grow out of control, which brings more damage to the environment. This directly contradicts what the reading indicates. Second, in the reading, it is said that GM crop can help poor farmers in that it provides good yield in dry season. On the contrary, the lecturer states that those GM crops cannot help farmers economically because they need to buy those GM seeds every year instead of using the seeds they got from the last season, which is more costly. This is another part where the listening contravenes the reading. Third, the reading passage asserts that GM plant can add missing nutrients for people in specific area. Nevertheless, the speaker refutes such view by pointing out that the Vitamin A added in the rice is not enough, and the more efficient way to deal with this problem is encouraging those people eating more vegetables like sweet potato. Therefore, the professor thinks that the final idea in the reading is also erroneous. (229 Words)
