Assignment 2

Summary: Famers who have financial problems can decrease their difficulties by trying a new kind of fertilizers-human’s urine. Aside from the yuck feeling of the “side effect”, urine is full of great reasons to put into use in farming. Those advantages include the good way of financial solution, little pollution made to environment and less damage from bugs. Some experiments have proven that the cabbage which is fertilized with urine grows faster and stronger than those isn’t. the natural fertilizer won’t have the trouble of shortage and will bring more beneficial effects to us.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/humanurinesafeproductivefertilizer;_ylt=AnrHfHUjL1cf262MJmuCZH8PLBIF

Vocabulary:
1. fertilizer: plant food
2. urine: body waste in a liquid condition
3. contaminate: make impure
4. cucumber: a long thin vegetable with a hard green skin and wet transparent flesh
5. scatter: if you scatter things over an area, you throw or drop them so that they spread all over the area
6. organic: methods of farming and gardening use only natural animal or plant products to help the plants or animals grow and be healthy, rather than using chemicals
7. application: something such as a job or membership of an organization is a formal written request for it
8. objectionable: to be extremely offensive and unacceptable
9. panelist: a person who is a member of a panel and speaks in public
10. nitrogen: a colourless element that has no smell and is usually found as a gas

Q&A
Q1: What is the main character this news discusses?
A1: Human’s urine which would be a good fertilizer to be used.

Q2: Who would be willing to hear this news happily?
A2: Famers, especially those who have financial problems in their work.

Q3: What are the advantages urine can provide?
A3: They might be the good way of financial solution and they have little pollution made to environment even protect crops from bug damage.

Q4: Does cabbage used urine for fertilizer has different effect from those aren’t?
A4: Yes, it grows faster and stronger.

O5: Why urine is unafraid of being short of resource?
A5: Because it comes from human ! Ha ha ha~