选择性必修第一册（Unit 5reading and thinking课文填空和中英文翻译（含听力）

人教版新教材(选择性必修第一册)课文及录音（Unit 5 | Reading and Thinking） 第一部分：课文语法填空 Yuan Longping, 1.________________(know) as the “father of hybridrice”, is one of China’s most famous scientists. Yet, he considers himself a farmer because he 2_______________(continual) works the land in his research. Indeed, his slim 3_______________strong body is just like that of millions of Chinese farmers, to _____4_______he has devoted his life. Yuan Longping was born in 1930 in Beijing. His parents wanted him to pursue a career in science or medicine. However, 5______________concerned him most was that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes even had a serious 6____________(short) of food to eat. To tackle this crisis, he chose to study agriculture and received an education at Southwest Agricultural College in Chongqing. After 7________________(graduate)in 1953, he worked 8___________ a researcher. Yuan Longping realised that larger fields were not the solution.9_________________, farmers needed to boost yields in the fields they had. How this, could be done was a challenging question at the time. Yuan 10_______________(convince) that the answer could be found in the creation of hybrid rice. A hybrid is a cross between two or more varieties of a species. One characteristic of hybrids is11______________ they usually attain a higher yield than conventional crops. However, 12___________it was possible to develop a hybrid of self-pollinating plants such as rice was a matter of great debate. The common 13_______________(assume)then was that it could not be done. Through intense effort, Yuan overcame enormous technical difficulties to develop the first hybrid rice that could be used for farming in 1974. This hybrid enabled farmers to expand their output greatly. Today, it ______14__________(estimate) that about 60 percent of domestic rice consumption in China is comprised of crops generated from Yuan’s hybrid strains, and his strains have allowed China’s farmers to produce around 200 million