Food Industry. Машутина Е.А. - 5 стр.

      1.5 Read the dialogue and reproduce it

― Hello, Ann! Glad to see you. I haven’t seen you since we finished school.
― Oh, yes. Very glad to see you again. How are you getting on? Do you work or
study?
― I’m already a second year student of our State University.
― What department do you study at?
― The faculty of Food Production.
― I see. You were well up in chemistry at school and eager to go into research.
You are quite a researcher now, aren’t you?
― Don’t say “yes” until you’ve leapt. I’ve been doing a bit of research in the field
of Biochemistry of Grain but our professor says we’ll have to make a lot of
experiments before we have reached a satisfactory result.
― You must have an up-to-date equipment.
― Right you are. All labs are well-equipped on the base of the latest achievements
of modern technique.
― You are lucky. Your dream has come true and I wish you a great success.
― Thank you. The same to you.

     1.6 Summarise all the information about your speciality and speak
about it

2 Text 1 The Historical Outlook of Corn Cultivation in the World
      Corn, one of the most fertile of crops, will produce about twice the yield of
wheat from one eighth the amount of seed, in one half the time. It requires no
excessive preparation of the ground, its cultivation is simple, and its harvesting is
even simpler.
      Columbus, in 1498, speaks of Haitian cornfields 18 mile long. Accustomed
to wheat, the Spaniards did not like the taste of the new grain, but they took
specimens back to Europe and it spread through several countries as a garden
curiosity. The first Europeans to recognize corn’s importance were the English
colonists on the Atlantic coast. Wheat, they tried, and it failed them; and when the
very existence of the Massachusetts and Jamestown settlements hung in precarious
balance during those first hard winters, it was corn that saved them. Like the sparse
crops of the first down of civilization it become a means of exchange, a form of
money. Surplus corn built up trade and commerce, encouraged the growing stream
of immigrants crossing the Atlantic, and opened the gates to wealth and prosperity.
The settler know that corn would grow wherever he planted it, and that within a
few short weeks it would yield him a food supply. A man could scratch the ground
with a stick in an improvised cleaning and grow more than enough for himself and
family. The world soon knew this yellow grain from America. Its addition to
universal resources made the grain supply adequate for the first time in history.

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