高中英语语法填空:短文题型能力练习 Test 35

Blake Whisenant and his family are farmers. They live in Florida. For nearly 100 years, Mr. Whisenant's family 　61　 (grow) fruits and vegetables, and sold them to businesses around the world. The warm weather in central Florida is good 　62　 growing crops, especially tomatoes. That is 　63　 he grows on most of his eight hundred hectares of land. In 1992, Mister Whisenant had some bad luck.

It began to rain. And it rained. And it rained some more. Nearly 50 centimeters of rain destroyed the tomato crop that year. Blake Whisenant was not a happy farmer.

“I just thought there's got to be 　64　 better way!”

So, he began looking to find a way to make sure this would never 　65　 (happen) again. He wanted to develop a system that would provide water to the plants from below. He thought some kind of cover would keep rain 　66　 and the soil warm. He wanted the plants 　67　 (grow) in a box that would take up little space. 　68　 (obsess) with the idea, he thought about it 　69　 and night.

And after years of work, he knew what to do. He found a company in Pennsylvania that agreed to make the box. It would be made of thick plastic, and would be about one meter long and half a meter deep. Inside the box would be a plastic tube to pour the water in, and a plastic screen with many holes in it. 　70　 like peat moss, but not soil, would be placed in the box on top of the screen, which would hold it above the water in the bottom of the box. A thin plastic cover would fit over the top of the box to keep out rain and harmful insects. Blake called it the EarthBox.