杂交水稻之父——袁隆平

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袁隆平院士是世界著名的杂交水稻专家，是中国杂交水稻事业的开创者和领导者，他为粮食生产和农业科学的发展做出了杰出贡献。他的主要成就体现在杂交水稻技术的研究、应用与推广方面。

1Yuan Longping， a Chinese agriculturalist， was born in Beijing in 1930. Andsince then he has devoted himself to agricultural education and research.

2He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering， Director General ofChina National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center.

3Professor Yuan was a pioneer in hybrid rice research and made remarkable achieve⁃ments in this area， first developing hybrid rice in the world. His achievements greatlysolved the food shortage and were provided as a solution to the worldwide starvation.

4Yuan Longping started the research on indica hybrid （杂交籼稻） in 1964. YuanLongping made a breakthrough in 1973. Yuan Longping is the first scientist who success⁃fully altered the self⁃pollinating characteristic of rice and realized large⁃scale farming of hy⁃brid rice.

5At present， as much as 50 percent of China’s total rice fields grow Yuan Longping’shybrid rice species， and yield 60 percent of the rice production in China. Due to Yuan’shard work， China’s total rice output rose from 5.69 billion tons in 1950 to about 20 billiontons in recent years， and about 300 billion kilograms more have been produced over thelast twenty years.

6He was awarded many international awards， such as Gold Medal Award for the Out⁃standing Inventor of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization， SciencePrize of United Nations Educational， Scientific and Cultural Organization， Rank Prize forAgronomy and Nutrition of the United Kingdom， Medal of Honor for Food Security and Sustainable Development of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization， and Fu⁃kui International Koshihikari Rice Prize of Japan.

一、语篇理解

根据上面的短文，从下面选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

A. This earned him the title“Father of Hybrid Rice”.

B. The annual yield is enough to feed 60 million people.

C. Professor Yuan graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953.

D. It is regarded as the fifth invention after Chinas Four Major Inventions.

E. In 1979， their technique for hybrid rice was introduced into the United States.

F. Also， Yuan was Honorary President of the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sci?ences in China.

G. He came up with an idea for hybridizing rice in the 1960s， when a series of natural disasters had caused many deaths.

【语篇图解】

这是一篇人物介绍类记叙文，其主题语境为“人与自我”范畴中的“生命的意义、生命的价值”。文章着重介绍了中国工程院院士袁隆平的生平事迹、贡献及其所获得的荣誉。全文结构如下：

二、阅读笔记

阅读上面的短文，搜集文本中出现的单词和短语。

三、语句分析阅读上面的短文，分析、掌握文本中出现的复杂的语言结构。

1. Professor Yuan was a pioneer in hybrid rice research and made remarkable achieve⁃ments in this area， first developing hybrid rice in the world.

【点石成金】此句意为“袁教授是杂交水稻研究的先驱，并且在该领域取得了显著成就，在全世界范围内率先研制出杂交水稻”。句中的连词and连接两个并列谓语;现在分词短语first developing hybrid rice in the world在句中作状语，表示原因。makeremarkable achievements in意为“在……（领域或方面）取得显著成就”。

2. His achievements greatly solved the food shortage and were provided as a solutionto the worldwide starvation.

【点石成金】这是一个简单句，意为“他的成就极大地解决了粮食短缺问题，并为全球饥饿问题提供了解决方案”，其中and连接两个并列谓语。句中的a solution to（doing）sth是固定词组，意为“……的解决方案”。

3. Yuan Longping is the first scientist who successfully altered the self⁃pollinatingcharacteristic of rice and realized large⁃scale farming of hybrid rice.

【点石成金】这是一个复合句，意为“袁隆平是第一个成功改变水稻自花授粉特性，实现杂交水稻规模化种植的科学家”。主句Yuan Longping is the first scientist是主系表结构，who successfully altered the self⁃pollinating characteristic of rice and realizedlarge⁃scale farming of hybrid rice是关系代词who引导的限制性定语从句，修饰先行词the first scientist。

四、活学活用

根据上面的短文中出现过的短语和表达方式，完成下面的句子。

1. 当儿子们高中毕业后，安搬到了佛蒙特州的一个小镇上居住。

____________________________， Ann moved to a small town in Vermont.

2. 他决定将自己的余生献给科研事業。

____________________________scientific investigation.

3. 面对崭新的一年，哪些领域将取得重大的突破？

____________________________， which fields will make major breakthroughs？

五、文本写作

通过阅读上面的短文，我们对袁隆平及其杂交水稻的研究成果有了更多的了解。现在，请你根据短文内容以及下面的信息，为校英语报写一篇人物介绍。

注意：

1. 词数80左右;

2. 标题已给出，不计入总词数;

3. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Father of Hybrid Rice—Yuan Longping