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1910年,一场特大象鼻虫灾害狂潮般席卷了整个亚拉巴马州的棉花田。虫子所到之处,棉田毁于一旦。亚拉巴马州是美国主要产棉区,那里的人们世世代代种棉花,可象鼻虫灾害的发生使人们意识到,仅仅种棉花是不行的。于是,人们开始在棉花田里试种玉米、大豆、烟叶等作物。尽管棉花田里还有象鼻虫,但棉花和其他农作物的长势都很好,结果,种多种农作物的经济效益要比单纯种棉花高4倍。亚拉巴马州的经济从此走上了繁荣之路,人们的生活也越来越好。亚拉巴马州人在巨大的灾害面前,没
In 1910, a mega-weeder-like catastrophe swept the cotton fields throughout Alabama. Wherever the insects, cotton fields destroyed in one. Alabama is the main cotton-producing area in the United States, where generations of cotton are weighed down and the occurrence of the weevil-like disasters has led to the realization that cotton alone can not. As a result, people began to test corn, soybeans, tobacco and other crops in cotton fields. Although there are weevils in cotton fields, cotton and other crops are growing well. As a result, the economic benefits of planting many kinds of crops are four times higher than that of pure cotton. Since then, Alabama’s economy has embarked on the road to prosperity, people’s lives are getting better and better. Alabama in the face of a huge disaster, no