(2)Intensive reading

1.Complete the following notes about Yuan Long Ding

Name:

Nationality:

Date of birth:

Occupation: Education: graduated from

Achievement: developed rice

Dream: a. to produce a kind of rice that could more people

　　　b. to his rice so that it can be grown

　　　 around the

Hobbies:____________________________________________

2.Answer the following questions:

1)What's the main idea of this passage?(within 20 words)

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2)What kind of rice is the super hybrid rice?

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3)What's Yuan Long-Ping's attitude towards life, money and fame?(Within 20 Words)

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4)Dr Yuan was able to develop a successful agricultural product when thousands of other farmers could not. What do you think is the main reason for his success?

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5)What does" it" refer to in paragraph 3 line26?(within 3 words)

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3. Choose the best answer:

1)Why has Yuan Longping struggled for many years?

　A. He wants to become one of the top scientists.

　B. He wants to prove farmers can also become scientists.

　C. He wants to do something for the farmers.

　D. He wants other countries to know him.

2)When did he begin to make a study of the ways to increase the rice output?

　A. More than 60 years ago.

　B. More than 50 years ago.

　C. About 40 years ago.

　D. About 30 years ago.

3)When Yuan Longping was a young man, .

　A. many people in the countryside didn't have enough food to eat

　B. all the people in the countryside were living a happy life

　C. no one in the cities was able to help the poor in the countryside

D. he didn't like the life in the countryside