Đề thi thử tốt nghiệp THPT 2027 môn Tiếng Anh — Đề ôn luyện số 19

Walk into almost any supermarket and you will see rows of fruit and vegetables that look as if they came out of a factory: apples of exactly the same size, perfectly straight carrots and tomatoes without a single mark. What shoppers rarely see are the crops (1) _______. A carrot with two "legs" or a cucumber that curves like a banana is often left in the field, fed to animals or thrown away, simply because it does not meet the strict rules on size and shape set by large retailers.

(2) _______. Nutritionally, a twisted carrot is just as good as a straight one, and an apple with a small mark on its skin tastes exactly the same. Yet (3) _______ standards that have nothing to do with quality, growers lose income, and food is wasted along with the water, land and energy used to produce it.

In recent years, some shops and farms have started to fight back. They sell "imperfect" fruit and vegetables at lower prices, often in mixed boxes delivered to customers' homes. (4) _______. Many customers who first ordered the boxes to save money soon admitted that they could not tell the difference once the food was on their plates.

Campaigners believe that the biggest change must come from shoppers themselves. If more of us are prepared (5) _______ fruit that is less than perfect, retailers will have little reason to reject it.