Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.A rice paddy has to be irrigated, so a complex system of dikes has to be built around the field.Rice paddies are built, not opened up the way a wheat field is.“Rice is life,” says the anthropologist Goncalo Santos, who has studied a traditional South Chinese village. “Without rice, you don’t survive.”Channels must be dug from the nearest water source, and gates built into the dikes so the water flow can be adjusted precisely to cover the right amount of the plant.That’s true; rice fields are carved into mountainsides in an elaborate series of terraces, or painstakingly constructed from marshland and river plains

The rice-growing practices of farmers in many East Asian countries are one example of how Blank______.Multiple choice question.energy-intensive farming practices can quickly damage and erode soilsoil fertility can be sustained with careful management and renewed over long periods of timethe green revolution has increased crop yields over the past half centurythe growing interest in organic foods has altered traditional farming in many developing countries

The Kinh of Vietnam cultivate rice paddies using a complex system of irrigation. This type of livelihood strategy is called _____________. (1 word)

1. They grow rice in tropical countries. → ....................................................................................................................... 2. Mr. Green loves his children very much. → ....................................................................................................................... 3. People don’t speak French here. → ....................................................................................................................... 4. Someone broke his windows last night. → ....................................................................................................................... 5. The police didn’t find the lost boy yesterday. → ....................................................................................................................... 6. About thirty million people are watching this live show now. → ....................................................................................................................... 7. They were carrying the injured player off the field at that time. → ....................................................................................................................... 8. Jack has typed the article recently. → ....................................................................................................................... 9. The police haven’t found the murderer yet. → ....................................................................................................................... 10. They were carrying the injured player off the field at that time. → ....................................................................................................................... 11. They had wrapped the package carefully before they posted it. → ....................................................................................................................... 12. Children should treat old men with respect. → ....................................................................................................................... 13. The computer can do all the accounts. → ....................................................................................................................... 14. They are going to build a new school. → ....................................................................................................................... 15. He isn’t going to buy that house. → ....................................................................................................................... 16. They will pull down that building → ....................................................................................................................... 17. The teacher won’t correct the exercises tomorrow. → 18. You have to keep dangerous chemicals in the safe place. → ....................................................................................................................... 19. Nobody has used this room for ages. → ....................................................................................................................... 20. No one can solve that problem. → .......................................................................................................................

5. There are more than 40,000 varieties of cultivated rice. *1 pointTrueFalse6. White rice is whole grain rice, with the inedible outer hull removed while brown rice is the same grain with the hull, bran layer and cereal germ removed. *1 pointTrueFalse7. Rice provides 20% of the world’s dietary energy supply. *1 pointTrueFalse8. Rice is high in fat and sodium. *1 pointTrueFalse9. Rice is naturally gluten free. *1 pointTrueFalse10. The nutrient value of rice depends on the variety and cooking method. *1 pointTrueFalse11. The varieties of rice are typically classified as long-, medium-, and short grained. *1 pointTrueFalse12. In China a typical greeting, instead of “How are you?” is “Have you had your rice today?”*1 pointTrueFalse13. Rice is a symbol of good luck.*1 pointTrueFalse14. In the United States, the average person consumes 100 pounds of rice per year.*1 pointTrueFalse15. Asia alone both produces and consumes more than 90% of the world’s rice.*1 pointTrueFalse

How can planting benefit the Philippines as an agricultural nation? Write your answer at least 3-5 sentences.