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Listening and Speaking原文 News Report 1 Today, in agricultural news, we are sad to report the passing of Professor Li Baoguo. Li, a well-respected professor at Hebei Agricultural University, died of a heart attack on 10 April at the age of 58. Besides teaching at university, Professor Li spent more than 30 years working to make the Taihang Mountains green with many different types of trees. This has had a direct impact on the lives of more than 100, 000 local farmers, who have been able to escape poverty through the regular harvesting and sale of their produce, such as apples and walnuts. Though he had a short life, he will be greatly remembered as an agricultural reformer by the thousands of farmers whose lives he had helped. News Report 2 In other news, the first commercial vertical farm has been built in the UK. In a vertical farm, crops are produced in a greenhouse in large trays stacked one above the other. With the growth of cities, farmland has become increasingly rare. Meanwhile, many countries lack enough farm workers to grow the crops they need. The vertical farm built by Intelligent Growth Solutions near Dundee solves both these problems. Not only does it use space efficiently, but the farm is fully automated, and uses low amounts of energy and water. At the moment, the farm produces just salad leaves and herbs. However, future plans include tomatoes and cucumbers. News Report 3 Finally, the East African Farmer Innovation Fair has just ended in Kenya. The fair's aim was to encourage innovation among farmers throughout the region. At the end of the fair, the host countrys Gerald Kibugi won an award for the creation of his software,Green House Do It Yourself. This software allows farmers to look up information on how to use greenhouses. "Farmers do not have the time to read and apply the lessons learnt from books on greenhouse farming, which is why I developed this software, "said Kibugi. Now with this program, all the information farmers need about greenhouses is just a mouse click away.
答案 Activity 1
A The first photo is of a woman working in a greenhouse with a tablet computer. Greenhouses allow crops to be grown all year round regardless of the climate and the weather. And now farmers can access the latest research on how to grow crops and gather information on different aspects of their own crop production through apps that can be easily accessed by tablets, cell phones, or computers.
B The second photo is of an older Chinese man examining a green plant. Some new technology may be applied to make the plants more productive
C The third photo is of a vertical farm where plants are grown In trays in order to save space. Activity 2 1 B 2 C 3A Activity 3 |
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