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考点规范练 17 Unit 2 Working the land Ⅰ.阅读理解 Three experimental fields of seawater rice were harvested in China on Wednesday,a further step toward its future practical use.Also known as saline-alkali tolerant rice(耐盐碱水稻),the seawater rice is designed to grow in seaside flats or other areas with high salt content and has been developed by experts through crossbreeding(杂交) and other technologies. One type of seawater rice growing in Qingdao’s Chengyang district,Shandong Province,produced 3.9 metric tons(公吨) per hectare(公顷),experts announced.Once widely planted in large areas,the output could be much higher. The Qingdao Saline-Alkali Tolerant Rice Research and Development Center,led by renowned Chinese agricultural scientist Yuan Longping,was established several years ago.It set itself a three-year target of developing a kind of salt-resistant rice capable of producing 4.5 tons a hectare,which would guarantee growers the minimum acceptable level of profit.The average rice output in China is 6.75 tons a hectare. Planting in the experimental field in Chengyang district and five other plots of saline-alkali land started at the end of May.The five other plots were in Dongying,Shandong Province;Wenzhou,Zhejiang Province;Yan’an,Shaanxi Province;Kashgar,the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region;and Daqing,Heilongjiang Province.The sites represent actually every type of saline-alkali land in China and researchers aim to grow different kinds of rice able to cope with different climate,salinity and soil structure conditions. The test crops in Kashgar and Daqing were also harvested on Wednesday.In Kashgar,the output reached more than 7.5 tons per hectare,according to experts’ tests,much higher than expected.The harvest in Kashgar was satisfactory.The result means it is possible to plant such salt-resistant rice in southern Xinjiang in the future.Xinjiang has about 2 million hectares of saline-alkali land that have the pote