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Practice Reading: Fill in The Blanks (Drag & Drop)
ID: #5403
Seeds 2
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In a mountain deep in the Arctic Circle, 130 metres below the ground, three huge rooms appear. In these rooms are the seeds of the world’s most important foods: wheat, rice and potatoes, as well as vegetables - from: to peas. They will be locked away and kept for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years so that if world disaster ever happens, our children or our children’s children will be able to rebuild without losing the 12,000 years' worth of knowledge we’ve gained so far. There will eventually be all 1.5 million crop varieties known to man in the room.
Protecting plant varieties matters. In 1948 a man called Jack Harlan was looking for samples of wheat. He found one very unhealthy plant, which was too weak to be worth growing and . He kept a sample anyway. Years later, when a almost killed all the wheat plants in the US, a disaster in terms of world food supply, Harlan's wheat was the only one that was found to be resistant.
Protecting plant varieties matters. In 1948 a man called Jack Harlan was looking for samples of wheat. He found one very unhealthy plant, which was too weak to be worth growing and . He kept a sample anyway. Years later, when a almost killed all the wheat plants in the US, a disaster in terms of world food supply, Harlan's wheat was the only one that was found to be resistant.
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