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VII. Read the passage and choose the best answer to each question from the four choices (A, B, C, D) given. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
In the 1940s I took up the growing of many types of seed on my farm on a contract basis: a great deal of grass seed, quite a lot of vegetable seed and some flower seed. Every one of these crops demands a different sort of technique in growing, harvesting and none of them had been grown in our area before, so it was a very demanding business, but also very satisfying and interesting. I would never previously have imagined that in the same year I would be harvesting beans, cabbages, carrots and several types of flowers for their seed. They are all of different sizes, have a different character and require different methods for harvesting and drying. Some are extremely easy, once you know how, For instance, when you have grown Sweet Williams flowers in a field and they are ready for harvesting, you have to gather the plants in armfuls, tie them together in bundles, and leave them in the field in piles with the heads upwards to dry. You then have to wait for a nice sunny day, when you go along with a large container, hold the bundles upside-down over the top of it and, if the air is hot and dry enough, all the seeds come out of their own accord. Carrot seed, when you harvest it, is not like the seed you buy in a packet in a shop. When grown for seed, carrot crops take up the land for much longer than most other crops. It has to be sown one July, left over the winter and harvested the following August or September. Like Sweet Williams flowers grown for seed, carrot plants have to be cut with an old-fashioned machine, allowed to dry in bundles, and then beaten using traditional tools. But it is, so to speak, only half beaten out. The result is a very light, woolly seed, which has to be sent away in large bags to a seedsman who will reduce it to relatively small seeds with special machinery which rubs off the feathery bits. I remember we sent away two railway trucks full of enormous bags of carrot seed but the whole lot weighed only a ton or two.
46. In the 1940s the farmer grew and harvested
A. vegetable seeds one year and flower seeds the next
B. one particular type of seed crop each year
C. several kinds of seeds each year
D. seeds he had been told were easy to grow
47. What did the farmer find out about growing and harvesting seeds?
A. It was much easier than he had imagined.
B. It had never been done on local farms.
C. A sunny summer was essential.
D. It was a very profitable business.
48. The seeds from Sweet Williams flowers are harvested by
A. tying the plants into bundles to dry and then shaking them
B. cutting off the heads and collecting them in large containers
C. heaping the plants together and beating out the seeds
D. storing the plants upside down until the seeds drop out
49. Why might farmers be reluctant to produce carrot seed?
A. The plants do not yield much seed.
B. The seeds take a long time to dry.
C. Growing and harvesting takes more than a year.
D. The seedsmen do not pay much for the seeds.
50. Carrot seed in a packet looks different from carrot seed when the farmer harvests it because it is
A. much darker in color
B. much lighter in color
C. less smooth
D. less feathery
Cám ơn mọi người.
In the 1940s I took up the growing of many types of seed on my farm on a contract basis: a great deal of grass seed, quite a lot of vegetable seed and some flower seed. Every one of these crops demands a different sort of technique in growing, harvesting and none of them had been grown in our area before, so it was a very demanding business, but also very satisfying and interesting. I would never previously have imagined that in the same year I would be harvesting beans, cabbages, carrots and several types of flowers for their seed. They are all of different sizes, have a different character and require different methods for harvesting and drying. Some are extremely easy, once you know how, For instance, when you have grown Sweet Williams flowers in a field and they are ready for harvesting, you have to gather the plants in armfuls, tie them together in bundles, and leave them in the field in piles with the heads upwards to dry. You then have to wait for a nice sunny day, when you go along with a large container, hold the bundles upside-down over the top of it and, if the air is hot and dry enough, all the seeds come out of their own accord. Carrot seed, when you harvest it, is not like the seed you buy in a packet in a shop. When grown for seed, carrot crops take up the land for much longer than most other crops. It has to be sown one July, left over the winter and harvested the following August or September. Like Sweet Williams flowers grown for seed, carrot plants have to be cut with an old-fashioned machine, allowed to dry in bundles, and then beaten using traditional tools. But it is, so to speak, only half beaten out. The result is a very light, woolly seed, which has to be sent away in large bags to a seedsman who will reduce it to relatively small seeds with special machinery which rubs off the feathery bits. I remember we sent away two railway trucks full of enormous bags of carrot seed but the whole lot weighed only a ton or two.
46. In the 1940s the farmer grew and harvested
A. vegetable seeds one year and flower seeds the next
B. one particular type of seed crop each year
C. several kinds of seeds each year
D. seeds he had been told were easy to grow
47. What did the farmer find out about growing and harvesting seeds?
A. It was much easier than he had imagined.
B. It had never been done on local farms.
C. A sunny summer was essential.
D. It was a very profitable business.
48. The seeds from Sweet Williams flowers are harvested by
A. tying the plants into bundles to dry and then shaking them
B. cutting off the heads and collecting them in large containers
C. heaping the plants together and beating out the seeds
D. storing the plants upside down until the seeds drop out
49. Why might farmers be reluctant to produce carrot seed?
A. The plants do not yield much seed.
B. The seeds take a long time to dry.
C. Growing and harvesting takes more than a year.
D. The seedsmen do not pay much for the seeds.
50. Carrot seed in a packet looks different from carrot seed when the farmer harvests it because it is
A. much darker in color
B. much lighter in color
C. less smooth
D. less feathery
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