Comprehension A. First Reading: Read the text and answer the following questions. 1. What is Americans’ response after the government began certifying food as “organic”? 2. What is the primary issue in the way Americans eat? 3. How to eat well according to Michael Pollan? 4. Why is the organic food business now said to be big business, and getting bigger? 5. What other changes Americans can make according to Mrs. Obama? B. Second Reading: Text A has 16 paragraphs. Which paragraph contains the following information? Fill in the blanks with the corresponding paragraph numbers. ________ 1. A change in eating habits from animal products and highly processed foods will improve people’s health as well as the environment. ________ 2. Some American farmers cannot afford the requirements to be certified as organic. ________ 3. People think when they are eating organic food, they are eating well and healthily. ________ 4. Mrs. Obama planted organic vegetables to provide food for the first family. ________ 5. “Organic” doesn’t mean “safe”, “nutritious” or “local”. C. Reading and Interpreting: Work in pairs. Read the sentences from the passage and answer the questions. 1. But eating “organic” offers no guarantee of any that. Q: How to understand the sentence? 2. The organic status of salmon flown in from Chile, or of frozen vegetables grown in China and sold in the United States — no matter the size of the carbon footprint left behind by getting from there to here. Q: What does the sentence mean? 3. But when Americans have had their fill of “value-added” and overprocessed food, perhaps they can begin producing and consuming more food that treats animals and the land as if they mattered. Q: What does “Americans have had their fill of ‘value-added’ and overprocessed food” mean?