Britain is now a highly industrialized country and there are only 238,000 farms in the UK. More and more farmers leave the land because they cannot earn enough money to survive. Only large farms are economic and because of this, most British farms are big. They usually grow cereals in the east of England and raise sheep and cows in the north of England and Scotland. The small family farms often have to earn more money by offering bed and breakfast accommodation to tourists. Farming methods in Britain have also changed. Fields used to be quite small, divided b y hedges which were sometimes a thousand years old and full of wild flowers and birds. Many hedges were pulled up to allow farmers to use modern machinery. Now most fields in England are large by European standards. 1. British farmers give up working on their farms because______.A. they are tired of the farm work B. they can’t earn their own living by farmingC. they want to continue to live 2. Most British farms are big because______.A. there are plenty of abandoned land B. farming is now industrializedC. small farms are uneconomic 3. The small family farms often offer bed and breakfast accommodation to tourists ______.A. to show their friendship B. because they want to have more tourists to their farmsC. in order to improve their earnings 4. Fields on British farms were ______.A. separated from each other by hedges B. full of wild flowers and birdsC. all are correct
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