No more very difficult grow maize sooner or later countless extended from before reaching desert area twice a year very dry by all means animal life can support for the past 100 years, the immense stretch of barren amer¬ican desert has been growing smaller. three generations ago, the wasteland 1__ the mississippi valley in the east almost to the pacific coast. but men learned that the prairies could 2__ and that the grass lands could feed cattle and sheep or yield wheat. as they continued to cultivate the desert, the size of the 3__ decreased. today, there are still 60 to 70 thousand square miles of desert. in the 600 miles between salt lake city and reno, ne¬vada, there is nothing but dead lakes, dry rivers, snakes and small 4__ , enormous mineral wealth, and the inhuman beauty of the desert. parts of the region 5__ cattle, but most of it remains desert country. and though it is an empire in size, it is 6__ than town in population. here between the sierra nevada in the west and the rock¬ ies in the east, the climate is and hot. even fairly large rivers from the mountains dry up so rapidly that they die 8__ the end of the desert. but 9__ it rains, even here. in midsummer and midwinter. in this land of little water, farming was . it would have been impossible if farmers had not planned and worked together. fearing no task, they built more than 100 towns and 11__ gardens. вместо пропусков,где цифры вставить предложенные слова,которые написаны вначале)
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1) extended from
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3) desert area
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5)
6) no more
7) very dry
8) twice a year
9) sooner or later
10) very difficult
11) countless
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