人教必修4 Unit2 Working the landA pioneer for all people

1、 Unit 2Working the land What are doing?They are planting the rice.u Have you ever grown any plants?If so, what did you do to grow them?First we ploughed the soil deep.Second we put the seeds into the tunnel.Finally we covered the deeds by ploughing again.They are ploughing the soil. Warming upQ1. Ri

2、ce is a main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?If that happened, people there would suffer from starvation. And the whole country would get into trouble.International Facts on Hungerand Poverty(2002)u ev

3、ery eight seconds, a child somewhere in the world dies from starvation. More than 6 million children under the age of 5 die from starvation every year.u More than 800 million people in the world suffer from chronic malnutrition- 799 million of them are from the developing world. More than 153 millio

4、n of them are under the age of 5.u Some 700,000 central Americans are suffering from hunger today, including 6,000 children at risk of starving to death.u The African countries suffering most severely from food shortage are Malawi, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.u If you had the

5、 chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?I would invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.Ill make a kind of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition and let them grow quickly and have high product. But first without pollution to our environment. He is father

6、 of hybrid rice(杂交水稻），who was lately awarded “the Nobel Prize of Asia ”.He received the honor for his great contributions(贡献）to hybrid rice research and work he did to improve rice production in developing countries.Now he is head of the National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center in Hunan

7、Province,China(中国湖南省国家杂交水稻研究与发展中心).He is called a pioneer for all people. Dr Yuan Longping(袁隆平博士）袁隆平博士）a farmer named Yuan Longping how Yuan Longping became rich and famousC. an agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain of rice D. a new strain of rice which is

8、called super hybrid rice u Which of the following statements tells the main idea of the text? It s about_Para1Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like?He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body.He is more like a farmer than a scientist.Q2: What is his achievement?He grows what is called super hy

9、brid rice, which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.True or False: 1.Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist. 2.Dr Yuans kind of rice is the most suitable for Chinas farmland.FTPara2a. He was born into a poor farmers family .b. He graduated from Southwest Ag

10、riculture college.c. In 1950,Chinese farmers produced 5.5 billion tons of rice.d. 20 billon tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice. e. He searched a way to increase rice outputs without expanding the area of fields.f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in les

11、s developed countries.Proper order: uPut Dr Yuans biography in right order. acbedf Which of the following description about Dr Yuans personality（个性） is not true?He is satisfied with his life because he is now rich and famous.B. He cares little about money and fame（名声）.C. He would rather work than le

12、ad a comfortable life.D. He enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people.1.What does “Wishing for things, however, costs nothing.” mean?2.What did Dr Yuans rice look like in his dream?3.Dr Yuan has dreams not only when he is _ but also when he is_.Dreams are free and everybody can have ide

13、as about what they would like their future life to be.The rice plants were as tall as sorghum.Each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn and each grain of rice was as huge as a peanut.asleepawake Pairwork：Match the following headings(标题）to each paragraph. A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE Para1 A. Dr Yuans dreams. Para2 B. Dr Yuans personality. Para3 C.