[F1-R] BÀI 1: URBAN FARMING

In Paris, urban farmers are trying a ___________ approach to agriculture that uses less space and fewer resources

• wasteful

• traditional

• outdated

• soil-free

Could it help cities face the threats to our food supplies?

Threat đồng nghĩa với:

• Solutions

• Opportunities

• Benefits

• Dangers

On top of a striking new exhibition hall in southern Paris, the world's largest urban rooftop farm has started to bear fruit.
"Striking" gần nghĩa nhất với:

• Dull

• Impressive

• Ordinary

• Simple

Strawberries that are small, intensely flavoured and resplendently red sprout abundantly from large plastic tubes.
"Resplendently" đồng nghĩa với:

• Dimly

• Brightly

• Faintly

• Weakly

Peer inside and you see the tubes are completely hollow, the roots of dozens of strawberry plants dangling down inside them

Hollow có nghĩa là:

• đầy

• cứng

• mềm

• rỗng

From identical vertical tubes nearby burst row upon row of lettuces; near those are aromatic herbs, such as basil, sage and peppermint.

"Aromatic" đồng nghĩa với:

• Tasteless

• Bitter

• Fragrant

• Sour

Opposite, in narrow, horizontal trays packed not with soil but with coconut fibre, grow cherry tomatoes, shiny aubergines and brightly coloured chards.

Aubergines là gì:

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Pascal Hardy, an engineer and sustainable development consultant, began experimenting with vertical farming...
"Consultant" có thể thay bằng:

• • Customer

• Novice

• Client

• Expert

The urban rooftop space above the exhibition hall is somewhat bigger: 14,000 square metres and almost exactly the size of a couple of football pitches.

Exactly đồng nghĩa với:

• precisely
• nearly
• approximately
• instantly

Already, the team of young urban farmers who tend it have picked, in one day, 3,000 lettuces and 150 punnets of strawberries.

Punnet nghĩa là:

• Punnet nghĩa là một cái hộp nhỏ dùng để đựng trái cây.
• Punnet là một loại rau.
• Punnet là một công cụ nông nghiệp.
• Punnet là một loại trái cây.