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Practice 3. Reread the text to find out which of the following statements are true and which are false. Justify your answer.

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1. Agronomy is the science and technology of growing plants for human consumption.

2. Agronomy includes and surrounds work in the areas of history and physics.

3. Agronomists are ignorant in such areas as insect and pest control.

4. The area of agronomy which studies plant genetics and physiology for improving crop yields under various conditions is known as plant breeding.

5. Fertilizers are used to provide soil with substances vital to plant growth.

6. Soil science involves investigation of producing food, creating healthier food, creating energy from plants.

7. Contour plowing is used to increase the effects of soil erosion.

 

Practice 4. The answers to the following questions are the summary of the text. Answer these questions and give the summary of the text.

1. What sciences and areas find application in agronomy?

2. What issues and areas are agronomists involved with in their work?

3. How can plant breeding be defined?

4. What does plant breeding lead to?

5. Agronomists try to find ways to improve soils, don’t they? Prove it.

6. How can the deficiency of some substances in a certain soil be made up?

7. Does contour plowing increase or decrease the effects of erosion?

 

Practice 5. Do you get enough basic information about the subject? What questions would you like to ask the author of the text?

Practice 6. Make a group discussion on the priority of the areas and issues of agronomy for state financing. Use Speech Patterns for group discussion, expressing and reacting to opinions, of agreement and disagreement (see Appendix 1 on p.107).

 

 

Text B

Plant a Country Garden

Consider the headline of the text. Then read the text to find out:

- the image of a true country garden in the author’s point of view;

- the examples of rural homes;

- the best place for growing food crops;

- the author’s experience in plant growing.

In many parts of Britain there are long waiting lists for allotments1, yet a great number of productive gardens have been lost as former farmhouses, cottages and buildings have been sold and the land around them put down to grass, spacious parking areas and patios with perhaps a few tubs of flowers. I long to see2 some of this land used as it was until 40-50 years ago, for growing vegetables and fruit with flower borders brimful of bloom3 and usually a few chickens and a hive or two of bees about the place. That's a true cottage garden rather than the chocolate box image4 created by romantic artists.

I could take you to any number of rural homes, converted into one house from two or three cottages, where the surrounding land has been made into one block, providing ample scope for a good-sized garden even after making way for a double or triple garage, roomy play area for the children and space for sitting out for al fresco meals and relaxing. After grass and rubbish has been cleared there is often very good soil that has been cultivated and nourished with farmyard manure5 over many years.

There is great enthusiasm at present for growing vegetables in containers and this can be very helpful if you have a small backyard or plot. However most crops will grow far more successfully when planted direct into the ground so if possible, avoid tubs other than perhaps for tomatoes placed against a warm, south-facing wall. For me the most important part of any garden is the part where food crops will be grown. Where possible this should be in an open sunny position, away from trees that can take light and whose roots will compete for nutrients in the soil. There should also be shelter from cold winds 6 or you may need to put up a windbreak.

In a country garden I like to see wooden fences and gates, rustic frames and archways to support climbing plants and rustic benches for sitting out. Gravel and brick look good for paths, which will blend in much more quickly if low-growing plants are put in to spill over and soften the edges.

I grow a lot of plants to attract wildlife. Evergreenshrubs7 give colour in the garden all year, privacy for sitting outside, shelter from cold winds, nesting sites and roosting places for the birds. I made two informal ponds where frogs very soon arrived to breed, birds drink and bathe in the shallow edges and ladybirds, hoverflies and other aphid-eating insects are attracted by patches of the poached egg flower limnanthes. Tall plants of common fennel are another of their favourites, while lavender, thyme and marjoram are among herbs that also attract bees and other pollinating insects. A true country garden should not be too tidy a place, but have informal areas where flowers such as the Welsh poppy are allowed to self-seed in a random manner, small creatures can hide in climbing plants or ground cover and you can sit, cast care away, breathe in the scent of the flowers and watch bees, butterflies and birds.

(Simon Devin “Home Farmer”, April 2010)

1allotments

2 long to see

3brimful of bloom

4the chocolate box image

5nourished with farmyard manure

6shelter from cold winds

7 evergreen shrubs

Practice 1. Look through the text to find out who this text is intended for:

1) general readers;

2) students in agronomy;

3) professional agronomists.

 


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