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ions for bionk.装27.What do the students think of the project?A.It is tiresome.B.It requires creativity.C.It is rewarding.D.It needs more donations.cFor Australian cattle farmer Jody Brown,the most frightening evidence of drought is the silence.Trees stand still,the singing of birds gone.The constant dryness means her cattle have decreased to around 400,down from 1,100 in2002,and at times there have been no animals on the land at all.The native grasses,once green,havedisintegrated into grey ash.According to United Nations'estimates,global crop production couldfall about 30%because of climate change,while food is sharply demanded in the coming decades.The world is facing a new age of rapidly increasing food prices that could push almost 2 billion morepeople into hunger in a worst-case climate crisis.Facing the scary predictions,farmers have begun to adapt.On Brown's farm,she'sexperimenting with regenerative-farming practices better suited to drought.She's exploringalternatives to traditional methods that don't push the land as hard.Meanwhile many agrichemicalcompanies are developing new varieties for vegetables,like cabbages that are more resistant toextreme weather.Across the globe,farmers are switching seeds and improving irrigation ()Lucas Oliveirain Brazil is pulling out half his coffee trees to plant corn and soybeans instead.He is being forced tochange course after coffee crops suffered from drought and then an extreme frost.With droughthitting California,Fritz Durst is working to trap water.He's boarded up pipes to hold the rain thatdoes faHl.Durst will also plant cover crops,which can help enrich soils and prevent erosion ()One of the biggest challenges for farmers is that there is currently no access to funds that wouldbe critical to undertake the kind of massive transformation."If you have to deal with millions of farmers around the werld,you have to coordinate (That's a huge task,"said Monika Zurek,senior researcher at University of Oxford's EnvironmentalChange Institute.28.Why are the data mentioned in paragraph 2?A.To illustrate the frequent drought.B.To evidence the increasing food demand.C.To present the severe results of climate crisis.D.To describe the situation of crop production.29.What is farmers'reaction towards the predictions?A.Exploring alternative farming practices.B.Sticking to traditional methods.C.Developing new varieties for vegetables.D.Experimenting with agrichemicals.高三英语试题第6项（共12页)