硕士英语美国农业.ppt

What are the problems mentioned in this part? What are the measures to solve the problems? How did the author organized these ideas? Key Words homestead: （美）主要指分给定居移民耕种的土地 v. 在······定居下来 levy: v 征税 levy a tax disastrous: adj,灾难性的 austerity: 严峻，节俭 deplete: 消耗，减少 incentive: 刺激，鼓励 incentive （for sb）to do sth * * * * Contemporary American Agriculture Problems and Challenges of the Twentieth Century （Para7---11) Group four: Bankground Great Plains 美国中部大平原 (para7) The Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie and steppe which lie east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. Bankground Great Depression 美国经济大萧条 The Great Depression was a dramatic,worldwide economic downturn beginning in some countries as early as 1928. 大萧条的影响比历史上任何一次经济衰退都要来得深远。这次经济萧条是以农产品价格下跌为起点,随后在1929年10月发生了令人恐慌的华尔街股市暴跌。 7. US’s farmland and grassland faced with tough situations in 1930s. 9. In 1920sAmerican farm prroducts fell, farmers were no longer self-sufficient 7-8 9-11 10-11. Measures proposed by President Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt through economic aspect and soil Conservation respectively 8.Measures were proposed to settle those problems Problems measures What are the problems mentioned in this part? paragraph 7: By World War I new lands for homesteading were practically unavailable. paragraph 9: A sharp drop in farm prices. paragraph 7: By World War I new lands for homesteading were practically unavailable. reasons measures 1 Reasons Huge dust storms Grassland depleted For additional cropland Reduced the fertility of farmland Winds Overgrazing Forests cut and burned Overcultivation Soil erosion Measures paragraph 8: To meet this challange a philosophy of land use and conservation began to develop.