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Read the passage and answer the questions.
Mr. Kunihiko Murai is a farmer who ( 1 ) rich from
hydroponic farming. When he was young, Mr. Murai thought that
the traditional way of farming was not exciting at all and he was
looking for a new kind of farming. He read many books, and
5 finally learned about hydroponic farming in 1966.
At first, Mr. Murai made an area to put water. He didn't add
any soil, because he knew that the minerals in the water could
help his plants grow. So, he put one hundred tomato plants into
it. They grew fast and covered a large area. They also tasted
10 delicious. From the next year, he made the area with water
bigger because he wanted to try to find the best way to grow
vegetables with hydroponic farming. He used a lot of water for
his experiments, so some people near his farm thought he was a
very bad farmer. Later, however, more and more farmers began to
15 ask him how to do hydroponic farming because they found that
2 it was a better way.
Hydroponic farming is a clean way of farming. Moreover,
vegetables grow faster than the 3 ones in the fields, so farmers
can grow them more often and they can get more money. Now, a
lot of farmers are using this way of farming to grow their
vegetables.
QHints
hydroponic farming
[hàidrǝpánik]###
area [éǝriǝ],
40
taste [téist] 〜な味がする
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