Cambridge C2 Proficiency
C2 Proficiency - Reading: Gapped Text
Drought Hits Corn Harvest
In the following text, six paragraphs have been removed. Above the extract you will find the six removed paragraphs PLUS one paragraph which doesn't fit. Choose from the paragraphs (A-G) the one which fits each gap in the text (1-6). Remember, there is one extra paragraph you do not need to use. Write only the correct letter in the empty boxes in the text.
Use these paragraphs to fill the spaces below. There is one extra you do not need to use.
- Everybody, including Nation's neighbors, will feel it. He says they will see an increase in the price of their groceries in about six months.
- "Probably, maybe 30 kernels on that whole thing. This is what we are up against," he said.
- "The U.S. exportable surplus is dwindling by the day," he said. "And China, Japan, South Korea, Mexico are going to be most directly affected by that.
- "The drought concerns this year have expanded exponentially as we have approached harvest, and some of the pro-farmer numbers we have seen recently have shown much more damage than was even expected just a month ago," he said.
- The drought conditions have serious implications for land use in this area. Many families have already begun moving into other activities.
- The only thing farmer Bruce Nation sees in his cornfields outside Taylorville, Illinois, is heartache.
- As he takes to the fields to harvest - this year about a month ahead of schedule because of the drought - Nation is watching that gamble in real time. Thanks to an Internet connection in his tractor, he keeps a close watch on the rapidly-changing price for his corn and soybeans.
