Father of Hybrid Rice—Yuan Longping

河南 龐先慶

主題語境：人與自我 篇幅：352詞 建議用時：7分鐘

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

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

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

4Yuan Longping started the research on indica hybrid (雜交秈稻) in 1964.Yuan Longping made a breakthrough in 1973.Yuan Longping is the first scientist who successfully altered the self-pollinating characteristic of rice and realized large-scale farming of hybrid rice. 4

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

6He was awarded many international awards,such as Gold Medal Award for the Outstanding Inventor of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization,Science Prize of United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization,Rank Prize for Agronomy and Nutrition of the United Kingdom,Medal of Honor for Food Security and Sustainable Development of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization,and Fukui International Koshihikari Rice Prize of Japan.

一、語篇理解

根據上面的短文，從下面選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。

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 China's 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 Sciences 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.

【語篇圖解】

這是一篇人物介紹類記敘文，其主題語境為“人與自我”范疇中的“生命的意義、生命的價值”。文章著重介紹了中國工程院院士袁隆平的生平事跡、貢獻及其所獲得的榮譽。全文結構如下：

二、閱讀筆記

閱讀上面的短文，搜集文本中出現的單詞和短語。

三、語句分析

閱讀上面的短文，分析、掌握文本中出現的復雜的語言結構。

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

【點石成金】此句意為“袁教授是雜交水稻研究的先驅，并且在該領域取得了顯著成就，在全世界范圍內率先研制出雜交水稻”。句中的連詞and 連接兩個并列謂語；現在分詞短語first developing hybrid rice in the world 在句中作狀語，表示原因。make remarkable achievements in 意為“在……（領域或方面）取得顯著成就”。

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

【點石成金】這是一個簡單句，意為“他的成就極大地解決了糧食短缺問題，并為全球饑餓問題提供了解決方案”，其中and 連接兩個并列謂語。句中的a solution to（doing）sth是固定詞組，意為“……的解決方案”。

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

【點石成金】這是一個復合句，意為“袁隆平是第一個成功改變水稻自花授粉特性，實現雜交水稻規?；N植的科學家”。主句Yuan Longping is the first scientist 是主系表結構，who successfully altered the self-pollinating characteristic of rice and realized large-scale farming of hybrid rice 是關系代詞who 引導的限制性定語從句，修飾先行詞the first scientist。

四、活學活用

根據上面的短文中出現過的短語和表達方式，完成下面的句子。

1.當兒子們高中畢業后，安搬到了佛蒙特州的一個小鎮上居住。

_______________________________,Ann moved to a small town in Vermont.

2.他決定將自己的余生獻給科研事業。

_______________________________scientific investigation.

3.面對嶄新的一年，哪些領域將取得重大的突破？

_______________________________,which fields will make major breakthroughs?

五、文本寫作

通過閱讀上面的短文，我們對袁隆平及其雜交水稻的研究成果有了更多的了解?，F在，請你根據短文內容以及下面的信息，為校英語報寫一篇人物介紹。

注意：

1.詞數80左右；

2.標題已給出，不計入總詞數；

3.可以適當增加細節，以使行文連貫。

Father of Hybrid Rice—Yuan Longping