Listen to the tape and fill in the gaps in the text using the words from the list. Stories of The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven of the world, tell of a structure with green gardens on different levels many metres high. These are long gone, but as our modern society continues to drain the world of its , the rises and food prices soar, a modern-day equivalent may soon be up in your neighbourhood! According to UN statistics, by the year 2050, the population of planet Earth will have risen to over 9 billion and all these people will extra farmland the size of Brazil! Finding this land will be a real , but one that some creative scientists believe they have solved with the idea of farming. The idea is actually very . Just as an apartment block has different storeys, a vertical farm will have many different floors growing a of fruit and vegetables. On one floor there will be , on the next floor carrots and on another tomatoes, and so on. The walls will be made of glass to allow in and instead of soil, the produce will be grown in a of nutrients and water. Dr Dickson Despommier, a professor at Columbia University, points out that just one 30-storey building could food for 10,000 people. “With about 160 of these buildings, you could feed all of New York,” he says. But as well as offering a solution to possible food , this idea is friendly. Often, by the time food arrives on your plate, it will have been travelling for days or even months! Vertical farms, however, will go up in the centre of the city and will be by solar and wind power so we’ll save on transport costs, burn less fuels and we’ll all be eating fresh produce from the next door! The idea isn’t without its problems, though. Crops nearer the glass would get more light which they would grow quicker than farther away. The only whole floor to get direct sunlight would be the top one. Possible solutions having a light source on every floor like the ones we now have in industrial . At the moment, the cost of building and lighting these modern Hanging Gardens of Babylon is far too high, but that doesn't mean we won’t be able to do it soon. Mankind has been farming for over 15,000 years, but now almost 80% of our farmland is already in use. Isn’t it about time we started growing up?

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Listen to the tape and fill in the gaps in the text using the words from the list.

Stories of The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven ... of the ... world, tell of a structure with ... green gardens on different levels many metres high. These are long gone, but as our modern ... society continues to drain the world of its ... , the ... rises and food prices soar, a modern-day equivalent may soon be ... up in your neighbourhood!
According to UN statistics, by the year 2050, the population of planet Earth will have risen to over 9 billion and ... all these people will ... extra farmland the size of Brazil! Finding this ... land will be a real ... , but one that some creative scientists believe they have solved with the idea of ... farming. The idea is actually very ... . Just as an apartment block has different storeys, a vertical farm will have many different floors growing a ... of fruit and vegetables. On one floor there will be ... , on the next floor carrots and on another tomatoes, and so on. The walls will be made of glass to allow in ... and instead of soil, the produce will be grown in a ... of nutrients and water.
Dr Dickson Despommier, a professor at Columbia University, points out that just one 30-storey building could ... food for 10,000 people. “With about 160 of these buildings, you could feed all of New York,” he says. But as well as offering a solution to possible food ... , this idea is ... friendly. Often, by the time food arrives on your plate, it will have been travelling for days or even months! Vertical farms, however, will go up in the centre of the city and will be ... by solar and wind power so we’ll save on transport costs, burn less ... fuels and we’ll all be eating fresh ... produce from the ... next door!
The idea isn’t without its problems, though. Crops nearer the glass would get more light which ... they would grow quicker than ... farther away. The only whole floor to get direct sunlight would be the top one. Possible solutions ... having a ... light source on every floor like the ones we now have in industrial ... . At the moment, the cost of building and lighting these modern Hanging Gardens of Babylon is far too high, but that doesn't mean we won’t be able to do it soon. Mankind has been farming ... for over 15,000 years, but now almost 80% of our farmland is already in use. Isn’t it about time we started growing up?

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