Вопрос № 884487 - Английский язык

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Teacher: Now, if I remember correctly, last class we spoke about gardening and how to get the best nutritional value out of it. You all gave me excellent suggestions in your journals, and I have made comments in them, too.
Pupil: And when will you give us our journals back?
Teacher: I will give your journals back to you at the end of class today.
Pupil: OK.
Teacher: In your journals, you mentioned how the design of the garden and 1_______ are very important. Today let’s look more closely at the vegetables that we are going to plant in the garden. For example, green snap beans are known to contain twice as much Vitamin A as does the yellow variety.
Pupil: 2_______?
Teacher: Actually, soybeans, which I know that some of you have already indicated a distaste for, are far better for you than both green and yellow beans.
Pupil: Why are soybeans so important?
Teacher: Soybeans are a very rich source of Vitamin A, and they contain 10 percent vegetable protein as well.
Pupil: And what do you recommend for those 3_______?
Teacher: For those who are not bean lovers, there is still hope. I would suggest cauliflower, broccoli, and cabbage to you. Broccoli is better than cauliflower in that it contains forty times more Vitamin A and has more Vitamin B and C, too.
Pupil: And what about cabbage?
Teacher: Small 4_______ are rich in precious Vitamin C. Vitamin C, by the way, is a great agent against disease and stress. I know that you are all preparing for final exams and stress is a factor for you these days, so I thought that I might mention that.

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Civilization has 1_______ man’s wants to a surprising extend. The man of today is no longer satisfied with merely having 2_______ to eat and house to live in. He wants raw materials which can be made into 3________ things and products.
Our food and clothing are produced directly or indirectly by plants. Many animals feed on plants and produce food and raw materials used by man. Without plant life neither animals nor men will be able to live.
Many things we use in 4_______ life are made from plants. The paper we write on, the clothes we wear, the tables we sit at, all come from plants. Plants are used as timber in the making of furniture and as fuel. Many drugs are made from plants.

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Monica: Hi, Jim. 1_______?
Jim: Oh yes, there is lots. The grass is quite high and I really have to cut it. The weeding must be done in the two flower-beds over there. The round one and the big square one. And later on I want to cut down a tree.
Monica: I’m not particularly keen on 2_______ but I’d like to mow the lawn and help to cut down the tree.
Jim: Great, Robin can rake the grass together, and we can throw that onto 3_______.
Monica: Where is the lawn mower?
Jim: It’s in the garage. 4_______. And you can plug it in right below the lamp-switch, there is a socket there. Well, it’s very kind of you to help me.
Мonica: No problem.

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Question: Now that the former United Nations Oil-for-Food programme has been turned over to the Ministry of Trade (MoT), how does that affect your ministry and food production?
Answer: The public distribution system (PDS) [in which most Iraqi families receive enough free food to feed a family of four once a month] has not changed. Whoever is importing the goods, it’s still the same. When it comes to trade, they should think more about the farmers. The MoT should count what we produce instead of 1_______, for example, and then refusing our wheat. They put very strict restrictions on our crops.
Question: How important is agriculture to the Iraqi economy?
Answer: 2_______ is the main sector to provide jobs to young people instead of leaving them in the hands of terrorists. It creates jobs and 3_______. We used to produce 60 percent of our needs in wheat, except in 2003 because farmers weren’t sure if they should grow wheat when they felt war was coming. The farmers weren’t sure if they would make a profit. This year, we are ready for the winter season in wheat and barley, so we should have a good harvest.
Question: So if Iraq grows so much of its own food, is the PDS still needed?
Answer: We have had many discussions about this. It is important to keep the PDS going for poor families. If you do something different, it will make the situation unstable, so we have to make changes slowly. We talked about giving money instead of food, or making it be just for the poor. For the farmers, it would be good to end the PDS. Production would go up, especially with milk. For example, now 4_______ are losing money because the price of milk is cheaper than the price of mineral water on the market. There is no subsidy for milk and we are importing powdered milk. We used to have 14 daily cattle stations, now we have only four. The rest were sold in 1997, so this shows how the PDS affects all production.

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Almost all Britain’s wheat crop is «winter wheat» which is sown in the autumn. Because of the dampness of the climate it is of the type known as «soft wheat», in contrast to the «hard wheat» produced in other countries, as the USA or Canada. Since bread made only from soft wheat is of lower quality and slightly grey in colour it is customary to use flour of which about 70 per cent has been made from «hard» imported wheat. Soft wheat, however, is excellent for making biscuits. About one-third of the wheat crop is normally used for flour milling, and about one-third for animal feed.

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Barley grows best under the same conditions as wheat. It is much more adaptable as far as soil, temperature and rainfall are concerned, and requires a shorter ripening period. That is why areas devoted to barley and wheat roughly coincide, but barley is also grown in cooler, more northerly districts of eastern Scotland and in moister regions in Ireland.
Barley is used principally for fodder (40 per cent). But a certain kind of barley is particularly suitable for the production of beer and whisky (15 per cent).