Aeroponics; feeding tomorrow's world ? If our world is to survive for much longer, we have no choice but to reduce the use of natural resources and cut out wastage. Compared to traditional agriculture, aeroponics does both

WORDS :
consensus: agreement, accord - rate: speed - initially: originally - FAO: the Food and Agriculture Organisation - purchase: buy - in turn: then, next - implications: consequences - sustainable: renewable, able to continue permanently - pests: insects and animals that cause damage - harvest: pick, cut - scope: opportunity - granted: it is true that... - medium: substance - trough: basin - nutrient: food for plants - gigaton: a billion tonnes - algal bloom: proliferation of green vegetation in the water -  slime: muck, a wet sticky mess - are liable to be: will probably be.


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1. Choose the nearest equivalent of each of the following expressions: click down arrow and select the correct answer.

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  Goal : a) game b) result c) objective
  
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  Achieving : a) reaching b) finishing c) doing better than
  
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  Shipped : a) transported b) sent by ship c) carried by plane
  
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  Self-sufficient... :  a) producing as much as they need b) using very few resources c) economical
  
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  Down to :  a) less than b) due to c) worse than
  
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  To rely on : a) to be connected to b) to produce c) to depend on
  

2 Explain in your own words the meaning of the following compound noun groups:

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  Eco-sustainable communities 
  
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  currently popular organic farming techniques 
  
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  a water deficit 
  
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  small-scale locally-sited renewable energy production 
  
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   highly energy-efficient buildings and lighting systems 
  
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   large-scale indoor aeroponic vegetable growing units 
  
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  carbon-neutral zero-waste aeroponic "farms" 
  

. Replace all the word endings in this extract from the article.

Cut out all waste in the product and distribut of food is an imposs goal. Even people liv in small eco-sustain commun generate waste. Even in organ crop product pests and disease cause wast and even if harvest and distribut local part of a crop will always be wast

But there is a large difference between wast fifty percent of all fruit and vegetables produc world , and the unreach goal of achiev no waste at all. Between 50% and zero, there is plenty of scope for signific reduc the volume of food waste simp through the use of new more effic product methods.
Studies have shown that packag and distribut systems account for about 25% of total wast of fresh fruit and vegetables, leav plenty of opportun for improve .