35, A. missing B. over C. survived D. left
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of
the questions
The industrial revolution was quickly followed by advances in agriculture which resulted in the rapid death of this new
underclass of dirt farmers. Just as they had been displaced by machines in factories, they fell victim to the advances in
agriculture. By 1910, most of the arable land in the United States had been settled and, due to the anticipation of
conservationists, methods for prevention of soil erosion began to be implemented. In 1914, the Smith-Lever Act provided
funding for educators to instruct farmers in farm management. As a result of European postwar poverty and US
overproduction, however, farmers experienced a depression lasting from 1920 to 1922. Nevertheless, Clarence Birdseye
perfected a method for freezing foods which spurred farmers to diversify and produce crops which were previously too
perishable to be of commercial value. Then, in the early 1930s, droughts, and dust storms caused by poor farming practices,
devastated farms and ranches of the Great Plains. Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal sought to satisfy the demands of striking
farmers by a series of acts. For instance, The Agricultural Marketing Act improved prices for producers of perishables and
allowed the federal government to buy surpluses, which were donated to the poor and used in school-lunch and food-stamp
programs. By 1945 the prospects for farmers were bright but then wholesalers and distributors organized themselves into a
network known as Agribusiness which grew to dominate the industry. It held a basic monopoly of outlets and, by putting
farmers under annual contracts rather than buying available merchandise, meant that by the 1960s farmers required a huge
amount of money to survive.
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