Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Some farmers may replant corn. Others may (47) corn
with soybeans (大豆) . What farmers do now depends partly on the (48)
of damage to the land. Floodwaters in some areas may contain
industrial waste or other (49) substances.
What the weather does during the rest of the growing season will also be
very (50) . Rain delay has (51) soybean
planting behind the five-year average in twelve of eighteen major soybean-
producing states. Other crops including wheat, rice and oats have also
(52) . In Burlington, Iowa, as many as fifty
trains normally pass through the city every day, (53)
carrying coal or passengers. But Burlington is quiet now until water is
off the rails and workers can inspect for damage. City Manager Doug Worden says
Burlington took steps to prevent (54) property damage
after the record floods of fifteen years ago. While the
Midwest (55) with recent flooding, the nation’s top
agricultural state, California, faces increasingly dry conditions. on June
fourth, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a statewide drought, the first
such action since nineteen ninety-one. The order (56) two
years of below-average rainfall and other limitations on water
supplies. A) replace I) followed B)
mostly J) rigid C) benefit K)
harmful D) suffered L) partly E)
deals M) receiving F) extent N)
severe G) important O) slight H)
left