随着社会变迁和时代发展，农业会向哪个方向发展呢？
The Future of Farming,
More and more people around the world are living in urban areas, and the need for high-quality fresh food is rising.At the same time, new homes, apartment buildings, shopping centers and roads are replacing fertile land near cities.That makes growing crops in tall buildings an interesting solution.
In Dallas, Texas, a company called Green Habitat Hydroponics(GHH), sells vertical farming supplies(垂直农业用品)．“You can control anything and everything you want to with hydroponics (the process of growing plants in sand, small stones, or water with added nutrients but no soil)，” Kris Maxwell, a sales employee at GHH said.“For example, certain plants need certain nutrients and pH levels.But don’t worry.You can change the hydroponic solution(溶液) by adding or taking away nutrients, or by changing the pH level, or even by controlling the amount of a water in solution, so that plants get all the nutrients and water requirements they need.There are even different solutions for certain stages in the plant’s growth.”
In this indoor environment, LED lights, which are environmentally friendly, take the place of the sun.Heaters, coolers, and special machines control the temperature and humidity(湿度)．Up to 300 plants can grow in one container unit.
GHH also sells aeroponic systems.With this system, plants are placed in huge containers
where only the roots are put in a solution.Nutrient-rich wastes from fish, for example, are filtered(过滤) and sent through the system.
“The good thing about this method is that no fertilizers have to be used because the fish produce all of the necessary nutrients，” Maxwell said.“Another advantage of vertical farming is that no insects or other pests will damage your crops.”
What do you think？Does vertical farming have a bright future？
Section Ⅰ Warming Up & Reading—Comprehending
重点单词 写作词汇
1.struggle vi.& n. 2.decade n. 3.expand vt.& vi. 4.rid vt. 5.therefore adv. 6.crop n. 拓展词汇
7.hunger n．饥饿；欲望 vt.& vi.(使)饥饿→hungry adj.饥饿的
8.disturbing adj.引起烦恼的；令人不安的→disturbed adj.扰乱的；精神失常的→disturb vt.扰乱；打扰
9.freedom n．自由；自主→free adj.自由的；免费的→freely adv.自由地；随意地 10.equip vt.& vi.配备；装备→equipment n．设备(不可数) 11.export vt.& vi.输出；出口→import vt.& vi.(反义词)输入；进口
12.personality n．性格；个性；人格→personal adj.个人的；身体的；亲自的→personally adv.亲自地；当面；个别地；就自己而言
阅读词汇 13.statistic n.
数据；统计；统计数字； 统计资料 斗争；拼搏；努力 十年；十年期 使变大；伸展 摆脱；除去 因此；所以；因而 庄稼；农作物；产量
14.sunburnt adj. 15.super adj. 16.output n. 17.circulate vt.& vi. 18.grain n. 19.peanut n. 20.occupation n. 重点短语 1.thanks__to 2.rid...of
3.be__satisfied__with 4.care__about 5.would__rather 6.make__a__difference 重点句型
晒黑的 特级的；超级的 产量；输出 循环；流传 谷物；粮食；颗粒 花生
工作；职业；占领
幸亏；由于；因为 使……摆脱或除去 对……感到满意 关心；在乎 宁愿；宁可 有关系；有影响
1.if so省略句式：If__so(如果这样), what did you do to grow them？
2.what引导名词性从句：Yuan Longping grows what__is__called(被称为……) super hybrid rice.
3.make it＋形容词＋动词不定式：This special strain of rice
makes__it__possible__to(使……成为可能) produce 20% more of the crop in the same fields.
4.倍数表达法：Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice__as__large__as__before(以前的两倍大).
Ⅰ Fast-reading
Skim the text and do the following exercises. 1．What’s the main idea of the text? A．Ways to increase the rice output. B．Yuan Longping’s dreams. C．Yuan Longping’s super hybrid rice.
D．Yuan Longping—an agricultural pioneer. 答案：D
2．Match the main idea of each paragraph.
Para.1 A．Yuan Longping’s brief life experiences. Para.2 B．Yuan Longping’s dreams.
Para.3 C．Yuan Longping’s attitudes toward life.
Para.4 D．Yuan Longping’s achievements in the improvements on rice production. 答案：DACB Ⅱ Careful-reading
Read the text carefully and choose the best answer.
1．Why did Yuan Longping want to develop a new species of rice in the 1950s? A．Because he wanted to win an award. B．Because he wanted to catch others’ eye.
C．Because hunger was a disturbing problem in China. D．Because his hometown suffered from drought.
2．How long did it take Yuan Longping to develop his super hybrid rice? A．12 years. C．20 years.
B．14 years. D．25 years.
3．Yuan Longping’s hobbies include the following EXCEPT________． A．listening to violin music C．swimming and reading
B．playing mah-jong D．singing
4．What does Yuan Longping think of being famous? A．It gives him a chance to know more important people. B．It makes him have more money to buy what he wants. C．It gives him a chance to take up more hobbies. D．It makes him have less freedom to do his research. 答案：1－4.CCDD Ⅲ Study-reading
Analyze the following difficult sentences in the text. 1．More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day.
此句为简单句。hungry为形容词，在句中作状语，表示伴随，描述主语people的状态。 [翻译] 每天有超过8亿人饿着肚子睡觉。
2．Although he is one of China’s most famous scientists, Yuan Longping considers himself a
farmer, for he works the land to do his research.
此句为并列句。第一个分句为主从复合句，含有Although引导的让步状语从句；并列连词for连接的第二个分句补充说明原因，to do his research为目的状语。
[翻译] 虽然他是中国最著名的科学家之一，袁隆平却认为自己是个农民，因为他耕种土地来进行研究。
3．Indeed, his sunburnt face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of Chinese farmers, for whom he has struggled for the past five decades.
此句为主从复合句，for whom为“介词＋关系代词”引导的非限制性定语从句，修饰Chinese farmers。
[翻译] 的确，他那被太阳晒得黝黑的脸庞和手臂，以及他那瘦削而又结实的身躯，就跟其他千百万中国农民一样，过去50年来，他一直在努力帮助他们。
4．In 1973, he became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output.
此句为主从复合句。句中含有that引导的定语从句，修饰先行词rice，且that在从句中充当主语。主句中表语中心词pioneer由序数词修饰，后面的不定式作后置定语。
[翻译] 1973年，他成为世界上第一位种植高产水稻的农业先驱。
①pioneer n．开拓者；先锋，先驱 ②consider v．认为，以为；仔细考虑 ③work the land耕种土地
work在此处意为“管理，经营”，是及物动词。 ④indeed adv.其实，实际上 ⑤sunburnt['s?nb??nt]adj.晒黑的
⑥struggle['str?ɡl]vi.&n.斗争；拼搏；努力 ⑦decade['dekeId]n.十年；十年期 ⑧super['sju?p?]adj.特级的；超级的
⑨hybrid['haIbrId]adj.混合的；杂种的 n．杂交种；混血儿 ⑩output['a?tp?t]n.产量；输出(反义词：input) ?strain[streIn]n.(植物的)品种；种类
2019-2020学年人教版英语必修四新素养同步讲义：Unit 2 Working the land 1 Section Word版含答案
