专题18 科学家-备战2023中考英语完形填空话题分类训练(中考真题+各地模拟题)

备战2023中考英语完形填空热点话题分类训练 (中考模拟真题+名校最新真题) 专题18 科学家 （2022·黑龙江·肇东市第十一中学校三模）Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist and educator, died at the age of 91 in Hunan last month. He was called the “Father of Hybrid Rice(杂交水稻)” and he helped ___1___ people around the world. Yuan Longping was the first person to develop a kind of hybrid rice which helped fight __2__ in China. Food was a big problem in China in the past. This was because China had 22 percent of the world’s population, but only 7 percent of its ___3___. In the 1960s, Chinese people had a difficult time. Millions of people died because they had no food. As an agronomy teacher, Yuan was very ___4___ to see this. “How can I help them have enough food?” he thought. He decided to work on a kind of hybrid rice. It has a high output(产量). At that time, other scientists didn’t think hybrid rice was worth ___5___. But Yuan and his team worked on it every day. They took very good care of their rice seeds. At last, in 1973, they grew a new kind of hy