托福阅读专项练习tpo3- the Ogallala Aquifer.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 托福阅读专项练习tpo3: the Ogallala Aquifer  托福考试：托福阅读专项练习tpo3:Depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer  托福1对1精英课程  The vast grasslands of the High Plains in the central United States were settled by farmers and ranchers in the 1880s. This region has a semiarid climate, and for 50 years after its settlement, it supported a low-intensity agricultural economy of cattle ranching and wheat farming. In the early twentieth century, however, it was discovered that much of the High Plains was underlain by a huge aquifer (a rock layer containing larg