英语阅读二6-10.doc

————————————————————Text 6 KEEPING FOOD ON THE TABLE It’s early August and the countryside appears peaceful. Planting庄稼 has long been finished and the fields are alive with strong, healthy crops. Soybeans and wheat are flourishing under the hot summer sun, and the corn, which was 搆nee-high by the fourth of July”, is now well over six feet tall. Herds of dairy and beef cattle are grazing peacefully in rolling pastures which surround big, red barns and neat, white farmhouses. Everything as far as the eye can see radiates a sense of prosperity. Welcome to the Midwest梠ne of the most fertile agri