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Book4 Unit 2 Working the land. 新快报 2000 年十大新闻人物 之一. 袁隆平. Yuan Longping is doing his research. Yuan Longping is working the land. Yuan Longping works the land to do his research. He struggled for the past five decades to help the farmers. Super Hybrid Rice. the rice that has a high output.
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Super Hybrid Rice the rice that has a high output
A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE PIONEER FARMER
1. What does Dr. Yuan look like? He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body. He is more like a farmer than a scientist. • 2. What’s his achievement? He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. Thanks to his research, the UN is trying to rid the world of hunger. Using his hybrid rice farmers’ producing harvests twice as large as before.
Getting the main idea of each paragraph:A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE • Paragraph1:____________________________ • Paragraph2:____________________________ • Paragraph3:____________________________ • Paragraph4:____________________________ His appearance and achievement. His biography. His personality. His dreams.
A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE His appearance and achievement. A scientist works the land Sunburnt face and arms, slim, strong body Grow hybrid rice The first agricultural pioneer
1. In 1930, he was born. • 2. In 1953, he graduated and devoted his life to finding ways to grow rice. His biography • 3. Last year, nearly two hundred million tons of rice was produced. • 4. Now, he is circulating his knowledge.
He was born into a poor farmer’s family in Beijing. Only 5.5 billion tons of rice was produced Dr. Yuan graduated from College. He saw the need for increasing the rice output. Hunger was a serious problem in many parts. Last year, nearly 20 billion tons of rice was produced 22% of the world’s people are fed from just 7% of the farmland in China Farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before
His personality: He is satisfied with his life. Because he doesn’t like money and fame. The 1st dream: To produce a kind of rice that could feed more people His dreams The 2nd dream: To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the world
Explain what the underlined words mean: • 1. He wants everyone to call him a farmer, for that’s how he regards himself. • 2. In many ways, he is one of them, and he has struggled for the past five decades to help them. • 3. At that time, hunger was a serious problem in many parts of the countryside. • 4. Using his hybrid rice farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before. • 5. Wishing for things, however, costs nothing.
1. He wants everyone to call him a farmer, for that’s how he regards himself. • 2. In many ways, he is one of them, and he has struggled for the past five decades to help them. It means he thinks of himself as a farmer but other people may think of him as a famous scientist or a rich man. It means he does not only look like a farmer but also he works in the fields with farmers. In fact, he does scientific research for them.
It means that many people were very hungry and they even became ill and died because there was not enough food. • 3. At that time, hunger was a serious problem in many parts of the countryside. • 4. Using his hybrid rice farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before. • 5. Wishing for things, however, costs nothing. It means that farmers growing his rice species are producing rice twice as much as they did in the past. It means that dreams are free and everybody can have ideas about what they would like their future life to be.
Answer the following questions: Because he saw many people go hungry. • 1. Why did Dr. Yuan want to increase the rice output when he was young? • 2. How does he help rid the world of hunger? • 3. What kind of life is Dr. yuan leading? • 4. What is Dr. Yuan’s personality? By producing a hybrid strain of rice which increases the harvests. He is leading a simple life, doing his research, listening to his music and riding his motorcycle. He is a simple, academic(学术的) man who is more interested in helping others than being famous.
