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Unit 2 Working the land Warming up amp。 Reading By Li Shen Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day. Do you know the Chinese poem? Poem Have you ever worked in the field? Do you know how the food we eat is planted? Use rice as an example. describe the steps with the help of the picture. First, the farmers plough the field. They have to make the soil loose enough to plant crops. Second, the farmers put seeds in the soil. Third, they grow some young plants. Fourth, they insert the young plants into the field. Fifth, they irrigate (灌溉 )the field when it is dry. Sixth, they harvest the grains from the field. Seventh, they winnow to get grain separated from the plants. rice Read the statistics below. What problem do they show? Many people starve for lack of food even today because of the unbalanced world economy. According to the World Health Organization: The world produces enough food for everyone. More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day. If tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat, what would happen? Let’s get to know the world hunger. Today our world houses more than billion people. Worldwide, more than 1 billion people currently live below the international poverty line,