The author conveys the meaning "produce food" in the passage. The context indicates that the urban rooftop farm is starting to yield strawberries, which aligns with the meaning of "bear" as to produce or bring forth.
"Food's Future: World's Largest Urban Farm"
by Jon Henley
On top of a striking new exhibition hall in the southern 15th arrondissement of Paris, the world’s largest urban rooftop farm has started to bear fruit. Strawberries, to be precise: small, intensely flavoured and resplendently red.
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Question
Use the passage to answer the question.
Review the boldfaced word in the passage. Bear is a multiple-meaning word. Which meaning does the author convey in the passage?
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Responses
“produce food”
“produce food”
“endure an ordeal”
“endure an ordeal”
“carry the weight of”
“carry the weight of”
“turn and proceed in a specified direction”
“turn and proceed in a specified direction”
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