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Unit 1 People of achievement
单元话题语法填空练习
(2022秋·广东·高二校联考期中)阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。
Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, globally known for developing the first hybrid rice strain in 1973 that rid countless people ___1___hunger, passed away in 2021 at the age of 91.
The scientist spent over five decades researching and improving hybrid rice, ___2___has reached its third generation, feeding ___3___(near) one-fifth of the world’s population with less than 9 percent of the world’s total land. In China, the annual planting area of hybrid rice has topped 16 million hectares, or 57 percent of ___4___total planting area of rice. Its growth area overseas has reached 8 million hectares. His more recent achievements included developing ___5___(vary) seawater rice, or saline-alkali(盐碱) tolerant rice. His team planned to use the rice ___6___(transform) 6.7 million hectares of saline-alkali land in China over the next eight to 10 years.
Yuan once said he had two dreams - to “enjoy the cool under the rice crops ___7___(tall) than men” and that hybrid rice could be grown all over the world to help solve the global ___8___(short) of food.
Yuan’s lifelong devotion to ___9___(reduce) hunger has made him a national hero and household name in China. In 1999, an asteroid(小行星) discovered by the National Astronomical Observatories ____10____(name) after Yuan. In 2019, he was awarded the Medal of the Republic, China’s highest state honor.
(2022秋·甘肃兰州·高三兰州市外国语高级中学校考阶段练习)阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Jane had wanted to work with animals in their own environment ____11____ her childhood. ____12____, this was not easy. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was____13____ (usual) for a woman to live in the forest. With the help of her mother, she began her work with the chimps, which changed the way ____14____ people think about chimps. ____15____ (spend) years observing and recording their daily activities, Jane discovered that chimps hunt and eat meat, aga