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Australian scientists ___ created a fruit with the convenience of an apple and the taste of a pineapple.

Barnaby spent all his life working on the___, like his father and grandfather before him. (

Because there are no long-term studies to prove the safety of GM foods, their long-term effect on human health is ___.

Beer bottles and large vine bottles are constantly ___.

But if you don't want your food ___about with, can you avoid it?

But ___ we reject alt GM foods?

Caroline has cried ___so many times before that people just don't believe her any more.

Cosmetics companies who claim not to ___ their products on animals are gaining a large share of the market.

Could I have some water, please? I've got a ___ in my throat.

Despite the benefits, however, not everyone is in favour of ___ foods or 'Frankenfoods', as the media calls them.

Don't count your chickens before they___.

Ecology also called bioecology, bionomics, or environmental biology, study of the relationships between organisms and their ___.

Ecology emerged in the late 20th century as one of the most popular and most important aspects of ___.

Even the great cellist, Dmitri Radovic, admitted to having___ in his stomach before a concert.

February and March are the months with most snow though it can fall as late as ___ in the Scottish Highlands.

First on the scene was ___ company Iceberg which came up with chocolate-flavoured carrots, made by freezing the vegetables with granules of chocolate sauce.

For recycling to ___ root as a social system, individuals, employers and government must recognize the importance of conserving the environment of our planet Earth.

For those feeling too nervous to eat much, a couple of bananas, some raisins or a fruit smoothie will help them to ___ going through this busy time.

From the helicopter the navigator could see the red cliffs of the Devon ___.

From the helicopter the police had a ___eye view of the accident.

Genetic modification ___ give us easy-peel oranges, cancer-fighting strawberries and blue potatoes.

Grass and trees convert carbon dioxides, taken in from air and water, into the ___ so essential to animal life.

How appealing ___ you find blue potatoes?

However, critics say that the dam project represents ___and cultural destruction on a scale so massive that the benefits of the project will pale in comparison to the damage it will cause.

I hated exams and I still remember how my mind ___ go blank when faced with a question paper.

I'm afraid you're flogging a dead___, Collins. The boss will never agree to your proposal.

Ideally, place a jug of water on your ___ desk.

If starchy foods ___ as pasta, rice, potatoes and bread make your child feel sleepy, these are useful allies to enlist at night to promote brain- refreshing sleep.

If they turn up their nose at pure water, you ___ flavour it with a high-juice or no-added- sugar squash.

If you have a school-age child, the following tips ___help them, too.

In addition to certain obligatory recycling, an economic system must ___which would make it financially advantageous to re-use materials.

In Japan recycling is no whim or fad, but generally accepted part of___.

In the early decades of the 20th century toilet paper and serviettes were made from old newspapers and magazines, which were bought up by ___ collectors who sold it for reprocessing.

Incredibly, scientists have ___ a gene from a fish to give antifreeze properties to tomatoes and so increase their growing season.

Industry has manifested an interest in the call made by the University of the United Nations Organization for «zero emission», i.e. total ___of the discharge of noxious substances during the manufacturing process.

It is hoped that recent advances in medical research will enable us to ___many of the diseases which currently kill a large number of people in Third World countries.

It is therefore difficult ___ GM soya because we don't know which products contain it and which don't.

It ___ make children hyperactive and headachy, then causing energy levels to drop so dramatically that they just want to fall asleep.

I’d forget everything I’d revised, often dissolving ___ tears.

Jane was having a___ of a time at the party, and could hardly be dragged away.

Let sleeping ___ lie.

Looking at basics, it is easy to see that the whole of our ___ functions on the principle of constant recycling.

Make hay while the ___.

Many supermarkets now ___ free-range eggs to their customers, instead of eggs from battery hens.

Nowadays the greatest ___ to industrial recycling is the excess of expenditure over income.

One man's meat is another man's ___.

One of the problems is that ___ of soya from the US contain both GM and non-GM beans because it's not thought practical to separate them at their source.

One swallow does not make a___.

Other measures being examined by the government are a system for resale of the rights to emit noxious substances and the introduction of a tax on the burning of oil, coal, natural gas and other fuels which produce ___ during combustion.

Plant breeders have a range of mini-vegetables such as carrots, broccoli and cauliflower, ___ they hope will make them popular snack foods with youngsters and a healthier alternative to crisps.