Drought and Water Loss Hurt Texas Cotton Farms
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
A bad drought hurt Texas cotton farmers.
- A2
A bad drought killed cotton in the Texas High Plains.
- B1
In 2026, a bad drought killed many dryland cotton crops in the Texas High Plains.
- B2
In 2026, a severe drought killed many dryland cotton crops in the Texas High Plains, the largest cotton-producing region in the United States.
- C1
A severe drought in 2026 caused the widespread death of dryland cotton crops across the Texas High Plains, the largest cotton-producing region in the United States.
- C2
A severe drought in 2026 caused the widespread death of dryland cotton crops across the Texas High Plains, the largest cotton-producing region in the United States.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- drought
- a long period when there is little or no rain
- crop
- plants grown on a farm for food or other use
- shallow
- having only a short distance from the top to the bottom
- shortage
- a situation where there is not enough of something
- aquifer
- a layer of rock or soil under the ground that holds water
- properly
- in a correct or successful way
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA Earth Observatory. Read the original for the full report.