公益课分享阅读机经2.pdf

雅思达人帮阅读主讲洪静老师 私人微信 hongjingxhd 公众微信 dajingjiaoyasi （大静教雅思全拼音） 新浪微博 @洪静老师 公益课分享阅读机经2 发送“预测2 ”到公众微信，自动获取机经题目答案 1.Natural Pesticide in India 印度村庄农药 2.Eco-resort management practice 昆士兰小岛旅游 3.Bamboo - a wonder plant 神奇的竹子 4.Sun set for the oil business 石油工业的没落 5.Memory decoding 解密记忆力 6.Copy your neighbor 蝴蝶颜色 7.Organic farming and chemical fertilizers 有机农业与化肥 8.Biodiversity 生物多样性 9.Scent of success 成功的芬芳 10.Keep a watchful eye on the bridges 桥梁监测 私人微信 hongjingxhd 公众微信 dajingjiaoyasi （大静教雅思） 新浪微博@洪静老师 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-14，which are based on Reading Passage 1 on the following pages Natural Pesticide in India A A dramatic story about cotton farmers in India shows how destructive pesticides can be for people and the environment; and why todays agriculture is so dependent on pesticides. This story also shows that its possible to stop using chemical pesticides without losing a crop to ravaging insects, and it explains how to do it. B The story began about 30 years ago, a handful of families migrated from the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, southeast India, into Punukula, a community of around 900 people farming plots of between two and 10 acres. The outsiders from Guntur brought cotton-culture with them. Cotton wooed farmers by promising to bring in more hard cash than the mixed crops they were already growing to eat and sell: millet, sorghum, groundnuts, pigeon peas, mung beans, chilli and rice. But raising cotton meant using pesticides and fertilisers - until then a mystery to the mostly illiterate farmers of the community. When cotton production started spreading through Andhra Pradesh state. The high value of cotton made it an exceptionally attractive crop, but growing cotton required chemical fertilizers and pesticides. As most of the farmers were poor, illiterate, and without prev