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Lesson 13 Rice

People all over the world eat rice. Millions of people in Asia, Africa, and South America eat it every day of their lives. Some people eat almost nothing but rice.

Rice is a kind of grass. There are more than 7,000 kinds of rice. Farmers grow rice in many countries, even in the southern part of the United States and in eastern Australia.

No one really knows where rice came from. Some scientists think that it started to grow in two places. They think that one kind of rice grew in southern Asia thousands of years ago. Someone in China wrote about it almost 5000 years ago. Another kind probably grew in West Africa. Other scientists think that rice came from India, and India travelers took it to other parts of the world.

There are two main ways to grow rice. Upland rice grows in dry soil. Most rice grows in wet soil. People in many countries do all of the work of growing rice by hand. This is the same way farmers worked hundreds of years ago. In some countries, people now use machines on their rice farms. The farmers all use fertilizer. Some insects are enemies of rice. Farmers poison them.

People use every part of the rice plant. They make animal feed and rice oil from it. They also make basket, brooms, rugs, sandals, and roofs for their houses. They burn dry rice plants in fires for cooking. (241 words)

broom rug sandal roof

A. Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text.

brooms grass probably West

rice rugs eastern soil

sandal even roofs insects

1. They also make baskets __________, __________, __________ and __________.

1. Reading for fun

2. Rice is a kind of __________.

3. People all over the world eat __________.

4. Farmers grow rice in many countries, __________ in the southern part of United States and in __________ Australia.

5. Some __________ are enemies of rice.

6. Another kind __________ grew in __________ Africa.

7. Upland rice grows in dry __________.

B. Vocabulary: New Content

Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text.

even probably rice eastern

rug sandals grass insects

roof soil West broom

1. In the summer, people like to wear __________.

2. Chicken, __________, and salad make a good dinner.

3. Frank is two years old. He wants to play basketball, but he can’t __________ pick up the ball.

4. We can have our picnic on the __________ under that tree.

5. Paul cleaned the garage floor with a __________.

6. The rain comes through the __________ of the old house.

7. Korea is in the __________ part of Asia.

8. Some __________ live together in a group.

9. Lebanon is in __________ Aisa.

10. There are a lot of black clouds in the sky. It will __________ rain.

11. Plants must have sun, water and good __________.

C. Vocabulary Review

Match each word in Colunm A with the word orphrase in Column B that means the opposite. Write the letter on the line following the word in Column A.

Column A Column B

1. bored ______ a. easy

2. large ______ b. cold

3. quickly ______ c. slowly

4. enemy ______ d. northern