➡Step 6　Homework

　　Read the passage again and try to retell the passage.

参考答案

Step 1

　　1.I worked with my father in the rice field last year.We grew super hybrid rice and used animal wastes to make the soil rich.

　　2.I went to Chuankou the day before yesterday.I went there to visit my uncle's family.

　　3.Dou Jun and I are from a farmer's family in our class.We grow wheat and raise pigs on our farms.And both of our families are going to expand the area of fields this year.

　　Picture 1:Planting rice.

　　Picture 2:Plowing the land.

　　Picture 3:Indoor harvesting.

　　Step 2

　　1.Then the southerners would have to change their eating habit.They could turn to potatoes,wheat flour,cow and sheep cheese,cabbages,onions and garlic for food.All these are the bases of the traditional food in North China.

　　2.I would try to end hunger by popularizing the advanced farming techniques.Modern techniques could be introduced to increase the rice output,and expand the area of fields.

　　Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist.

　　His scientific achievements led to the world's first successful and widely-grown hybrid rice varieties,revolutionizing rice cultivation in China.Hybrid rice has since been grown in dozens of countries in Africa,America and Asia,providing food for tens of millions of people and leading to his becoming known as "Father of Hybrid Rice".

　　Step 4

Facts about Yuan's super hybrid rice Capacity produce 20% more of the crop in the same fields;more than 60% of the rice in China is from this hybrid strain Application besides China,knowledge being circulated in India,Vietnam and many other less developed countries to increase their rice harvest Contribution nearly two hundred million tons of rice was produced;22% of people are fed from just 7% of the farmland in the world;the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger Future the rice being grown around the globe 　　

Facts about Yuan Longping Birth in 1930 Education graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953 Personality regard himself as a farmer;care little about spending money on himself and being famous;