阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。Climate change has caused a rise in sea levels. This has increased the amount of salt in fresh water 【小题1】(use )on coastal farms. As a result, farmers are 【小题2】 (gradual) unable to use fields close to the sea.
However, Mare Van Rijsselberghe, a farmer in the Netherlands is now using a 【小题3】(mix)of sea and fresh water 【小题4】(grow)healthy and tasty vegetables.
He teamed up with scientists from the Free University of Amsterdam and divided a farm 【小题5】 eight irrigated areas. Separate pipes pumped fresh and sea water, and 【小题6】 computer program created water with eight levels of salinity(含盐度).
The water levels and the levels of salinity were controlled by computerised measuring devices called “sensors”. Mr. Van Rijsselberghe said he was able to harvest vegetables from most of the eight test areas. He said the vegetables were smaller than 【小题7】 grown in fresh water. But he said they also had more sugar and salt, so they tasted much 【小题8】(good).
He found that potatoes grew better than the other vegetables in the combination of sea and fresh water. Mr. Van Rijsselberghe said four kinds of these potatoes would be sent to Pakistan 【小题9】 thousands of hectares of land 【小题10】(damage) by salinization(盐化作用)last year.