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Plant Pathology Society is organizing an international conference and wants volunteers to assist with the work. Read the poster

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    Plant Pathology Society is organizing an international conference and wants volunteers to assist with the work. Read the poster about the volunteers wanted. You will have 45 seconds to read the poster. Begin reading now.
    Reading Time. 45 seconds
                    Volunteers Wanted
    There will be an international conference on plant pathology organized by the Plant Pathology Society from Sept. 26th to Sept. 30th in International Convention Center. Over 400 scientists and scholars from home and abroad will gather in this conference. As the staff of the secretariat will not be enough for such a big international conference, from Sept. 22nd to the end of the conference, extra volunteers are wanted. Those who are majoring in biology or botany are very much welcome. For more details, please call Registry Office. 6875431.
Professor
    Just now, we discussed the principles of GE food. Well, at the moment, there is much controversy surrounding GE food. Some people claim GE food is safe for humans and safe for environment and will benefit everyone. Some say they support research into GE food cause they recognize the possible benefits for economic food supply in the future. But nothing has yet been proved for this new technology and the risks are so great that it is wise to go slow. None of the GE foods so far produced are at all necessary. So why are they being sold? Why not wait longer until more scientific trials are carried out?
    Well, there are also some people saying no to GE foods. They are not worth the risk to the environment and our health. They say, ah...organic or semi-organic farming is the answer to feeding the world. This type of farming needs lots of labor, but needs no debt and no large corporations. Others are even angry—GE foods are already being sold and there is no way for consumers to know if they are genetically modified. They feel they have been tricked by big corporations and they do not like being human guinea pigs for this new GE food. They insist on clear labeling on food packaging to show whether GE food products are present.
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答案The man explained roughly four reasons why the woman should go and he a volunteer in the conference. First, for a student, it is very helpful to participate in academic lectures or conferences, from which she can learn a lot of things that are rarely heard in class or hardly seen in textbooks. This is what the man’s tutor tells him to do. Second, working as a volunteer in the international conference provides the woman a good chance to broaden her horizons in her academic study. Third, in the conference, the woman can meet a lot of famous scholars in her academic field, and thus update her knowledge. Fourth, what the woman will gain from the work in the conference is worth much more than the time she spends on it.
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