2021-22学年度第3期总第841期
Improving rice for everyone (Page 6)
大连市23中学  韩爱华
I. Lead in
Look at the pictures, what do you know about Yuan Longping?

Yuan Longping has left us, but his legacy lives on. Let's learn more about his hybrid rice.

II. Fast reading
Read the passage as quickly as possible and find out Yuan Longping's dreams.

To “enjoy the cool shade (树荫) beneath rice plants taller than men” and to see hybrid rice grown all over the world to help solve the global food shortage.

III. Careful reading
1. Read the passage carefully and choose the best summary.
A. Yuan Longping, the Father of Hybrid Rice.
B. The advantages of giant rice.
C. Yuan Longping's giant rice variety has been successfully planted.
D. Planting giant rice and raising aquatic animals together is a good way to make money.
Key: C

2. What are the advantages of the new giant rice compared to normal rice?
A. height: Twice as tall as standard varieties.
B. _yield__: They have an estimated yield of 12 metric tons per hectare (9 for normal rice).
C. It is resistant to heat, disease and flooding.
D. It provides an ideal habitat for __aquatic  creatures and mammals__, whose excrement adds nutrients to the plants.
E. Planting giant rice and raising aquatic animals together may help farmers increase profits by a factor of five or six.

3. What's the purpose of the last paragraph?
To provide some related background information.

IV. Post reading
Discussion:
What can we do to help realize Yuan's dream "to see hybrid rice grown all over the world to help solve the global food shortage"?

V. Language study
1. Famous agricultural expert Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice”, died in May at the age of 91.
known as: 作为……出名，本句中是过去分词短语作定语，相当于非限制性定语从句who is known as the father of hybrid rice, 修饰Yuan Longping。
著名的农业专家袁隆平，他作为杂交水稻之父而出名，在五月份去世，享年91岁。

2. A project to plant 1,333 hectares of giant rice variety and introduce aquatic animals is planned in Dazu district, Luo said.
to plant: 动词不定式作定语，修饰a project, 表示将来。
一个将要种植1333公顷巨型水稻并引入水族生物的项目计划在大足区进行，罗说。