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大学英语四级分类模拟题256 Reading Comprehension The Technology Thats Transforming Gardening With the holiday weekend coming up and the weather (hopefully) taking a turn for the better, many of us may 1 feeling a bit green-fingered (精通园艺的) and turn our 2 to gardening. The New York-basedtech Bitponics is hoping that worrying about seasons will be a thing of the past when it comes to 3 your own plants, fruit and vegetables. Bitponicsclaims to be your 4 gardening assistant. The system it sells is a cloud-based hydroponics (水栽培) gardening manager. Many people may only have heard of hydroponics in terms of growing cannabis (大麻), but actually it is 5 used in farming. Hydroponics basically 6 growing plants without soil, instead using a reservoir (蓄水池) of nutrient solutions in water. What Bitponics strives to do is automate hydroponic systems. The technology it has developed is an electronic box that has 7 attached. These sensors, or probes, go into the reservoir of your hydroponic system and monitor things like pH levels, 8 , humidity (湿度), and the data is then sent 9 to the cloud. Two outlets let you plug in lights or pumps, which can be set on timers to aid growing. A web app gives you a grow plan, which 10 you by text or e-mail when you need to add nutrients or change the water reservoir. absently E. investment I. personal M. temperature attention F. involves J. plentiful N. widely explicit G. merely K. sensors O. wirelessly growing H. notifies L. start The Dangers of Reading One of the biggest reasons I depart from my minimalist ( 极 简 主 义 的 ) philosophy is reading, 11 , reading about what others are doing. I read a blog post, or a magazine article about someone doing something 12 : travelling, using a new productivity system, making bread, etc. And then I want to do that too. And I think we all do this. We all read inspirational things, or hear about them from a friend, and 13 ourselves doing the same thing. This is often a good thin—ginspiration is good, isnt it? Learning f