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Tips: in the text , underline the names , dates, numbers, etc. from the questions or options ,
so that you can then then locate quickly.
Example : Here is part of a text about the development of fertilizers in the nineteenth
century. In this example the questions follow the order of the text.
Food production was greatly improved in the nineteenth century. One reason
behind the development of
effective fertilizers. The German chemist Justus von liebig (1803-1873) added considerably to
knowledge of plant nutrition indentifying the crucial importance of nitrogen .
and the France scientist
Jean Baptiste boussingault (1802- 1887) discovered that different kinds of fertilizers required different
amounts of nitrogen. However a business venture by Von Lieble failed: although the
fertilizer he sold
was much less expensive than the guano it was intended to replace, crops
were unable to absorb it
adequately . Von Liebia later develop a manufacturing process for making beef extract cubes, which
are still used in kitchens around the world.
In Britain , Jhan bennet laws (1814-1900) owned a farm where he experimented with
crops and
manures: at first he tested the effects of various manures on potted plants and later worked on crops in
the field . in 1849 the patented a successful superphosphate which was the first artificial manure.
Laws made provision for the experimental farm to continue after his death and it exists to this day.
