1、【问题导读】Read the text and try to tell if these sentences are True( T ) or False(F)1The passage is mainly about how Yuan Longping cultivated hybrid rice successfully.()2Before Yuan devoted himself to the study of hybrid rice，he had worked as a teacher in Hunan Province.()答案：1.T2.T,Yuan Longpings road t
2、o super hybrid rice袁隆平，中国工程院院士，我国当代杰出的农业科学家，享誉世界的“杂交水稻之父”。他工作50多年来所取得的科研成果使我国杂交水稻研究及应用领域领先世界水平，不仅解决了中国粮食自给难题，也为世界粮食安全做出了杰出贡献。,Yuan Longping was born in a poor farmers family in 1930 and graduated from the Southwest Agricultural College in 1953.Then he began his teaching career at an agriculture scho
3、ol in Anjiang，Hunan Province.He came up with an idea of hybridizing rice in the 1960s，when a series of natural disasters and improper policies had plunged1 China into a famine2 that caused many deaths.Since then，he has devoted himself to the research and development of a better rice breed3.,In 1964，
4、he happened to find a natural hybrid rice plant that had obvious advantages over others.Greatly encouraged，he began to study the elements of this particular type.In 1973，in cooperation with others，he was able to cultivate4 a type of hybrid rice species which had great advantages.It yielded5 20 perce
5、nt more per unit than that of common ones.The next year their research made a breakthrough in seeding.They successfully developed a set of technologies for producing hybrid rice，putting China in the lead worldwide in rice production.For this achievement，he was named the“Father of Hybrid Rice.”,In 19
6、79，their technique for hybrid rice was introduced into the United States，the first case of intellectual6 property rights transfer in the history of new China.At present，as many as 50% of Chinas total rice fields grow Yuan Longpings hybrid rice species，which yield 60% of the rice production in China.
7、Due to Yuans hard work，Chinas total rice output rose from 50 million tons in 1950 to nearly 200 million tons in recent years.The annual yield is enough to feed 60 million people.,Yuan Longping was named a winner on March 29,2004，of the annual US $250,000 World Food Prize for his work in producing hi
8、ghproduction rice.In the same year he got Wolf Prize in agriculture in Israel.He loves playing Mahjong and the violin and swimming.He said he would go on working hard at his super hybrid rice project.,【日积月累】1plunge vt.使陷入2famine n饥荒3breed n品种4cultivate vt.培育5yield vt.出产(作物)n.产量6intellectual adj.智力的；
9、有才智的,【佳句欣赏】1He came up with an idea of hybridizing rice in the 1960s，when a series of natural disasters and improper policies had plunged China into a famine that caused many deaths.他的杂交水稻的想法开始于二十世纪六十年代，那时一系列的自然灾害和不合适的政策，使中国陷入了严重的饥荒之中并使很多人丧生。come up with“提出”。,2In 1979，their technique for hybrid rice was introduced into the United States，the first case of intellectual property rights transfer in the history of new China.1979年，杂交水稻技术被介绍到了美国，成为新中国历史上第一例。“in the history of.”“在的历史上”。,
