雜交水稻之父——袁隆平

龐先慶

袁隆平院士是世界著名的雜交水稻專家，是中國雜交水稻事業(yè)的開創(chuàng)者和領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者，他為糧食生產(chǎn)和農(nóng)業(yè)科學(xué)的發(fā)展做出了杰出貢獻(xiàn)。他的主要成就體現(xiàn)在雜交水稻技術(shù)的研究、應(yīng)用與推廣方面。

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 （雜交秈稻） 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、語篇理解

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

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.

【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(jià)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(xiàn)及其所獲得的榮譽(yù)。全文結(jié)構(gòu)如下：

二、閱讀筆記

閱讀上面的短文，搜集文本中出現(xiàn)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(xiàn)的復(fù)雜的語言結(jié)構(gòu)。

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.

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

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

【點(diǎn)石成金】這是一個(gè)簡(jiǎn)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(gè)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?pollinatingcharacteristic of rice and realized large?scale farming of hybrid rice.

【點(diǎn)石成金】這是一個(gè)復(fù)合句，意為“袁隆平是第一個(gè)成功改變水稻自花授粉特性，實(shí)現(xiàn)雜交水稻規(guī)模化種植的科學(xué)家”。主句Yuan Longping is the first scientist是主系表結(jié)構(gòu)，who successfully altered the self?pollinating characteristic of rice and realizedlarge?scale farming of hybrid rice是關(guān)系代詞who引導(dǎo)的限制性定語從句，修飾先行詞the first scientist。

四、活學(xué)活用

根據(jù)上面的短文中出現(xiàn)過的短語和表達(dá)方式，完成下面的句子。

1. 當(dāng)兒子們高中畢業(yè)后，安搬到了佛蒙特州的一個(gè)小鎮(zhèn)上居住。

____________________________， Ann moved to a small town in Vermont.

2. 他決定將自己的余生獻(xiàn)給科研事業(yè)。

____________________________scientific investigation.

3. 面對(duì)嶄新的一年，哪些領(lǐng)域?qū)⑷〉弥卮蟮耐黄疲?/p>

____________________________， which fields will make major breakthroughs？

五、文本寫作

通過閱讀上面的短文，我們對(duì)袁隆平及其雜交水稻的研究成果有了更多的了解?，F(xiàn)在，請(qǐng)你根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容以及下面的信息，為校英語報(bào)寫一篇人物介紹。

注意：

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3. 可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

Father of Hybrid Rice—Yuan Longping