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2013/4/6春季基口考试--听力下午--Spot Dictation题目文本——吕梦皎 发布日期：2013-04-09?? 2013/4/6春季基口考试--听力下午--Spot Dictation题目文本 Studies?show?farmland?in?Africa?is?often?(1)_______?in?important?nutrients. ?But?researchers?say?a?combination?of?farming?methods?may?help. Since?the?world?(2)_________?several?years?ago,?researchers?have?directed?more?of?their?(3)________?to?small?farms.?Most?farms?in?areas?south?of?the?Sahara?Desert?are?only?about?one?or?two?hectares.? One?of?the?goals?is?to?(4)__________?without?necessarily?clearing?more?land?to?grow?additional?crops. American?researchers?say?that?can?happen?with?(5)__________?of?an?agricultural?system?called?perenniation.? It?mixes?food?crops?with?trees?and?perennial?plants?–?those?that?return?(6)___________. Soil?scientist?John?Reganold?is?with?Washington?State?University. According?to?him,?one?of?the?(7)__________?is?that?the?soils?are?fairly?poor?in?most?of?the?regions. ?So?how?do?you?grow?food?on?poor?soils? ?There?have?to?be?food?production?systems?that?can?build?the?soil?and?improve?the?(8)________.Mr.?Reganold?says?poor?soil?may?have?resulted?from?years?of?weathering?that?washed?away?many?nutrients. ?He?says?some?farmers?may?have?done?(9)________?than?good.They?have?been?actually?using?(10)__________?where?they’re?not?putting?in?organic?matter.?They’re?not?putting?in?fertilizers. ?They?can’t?afford?those?things.?And?it?just?runs?the?soil?down.?So?they’re?(11)_________?the?situation. He?estimates?that?up?to?two?billion?dollars?worth?of?nitrogen,?phosphorous?and?potassium?is?lost?from?African?soil?each?year. The?scientist?says?the?word?perenniation?defines?three?systems?that?are?already?used?in?Africa.? (12)________?of?the?three?is?called?evergreen?agriculture.? This?is?where?farmers?plant?trees?with?their?crops.?John?Reganold?says?farmers?in?Africa ?have?been?doing?this?for?(13)_________,?but?it?seems?to?be?growing?in?popularity. The?method?is?gaining?(14)__________?in?countries?such?as?Niger,?Burkina?Faso,?Malawi?and?Zambia.?