Unit 5 Assessing Your Progress & Project 课件-2023-2024学年高二英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册

Assessing Your Progress & Video Time Leading in 1.Can you name some agronomists(农学家) in China? 中国农业科技事业的开拓者——陈凤桐 世界杂交水稻之父——袁隆平 中国现代小麦科学的奠基人——金善宝 中国现代棉作科学的奠基人——冯泽芳 中国生态农业的奠基人——叶谦吉 东周战国时期著名农学家——许行 中国柑桔学科的奠基人——章文才 北魏杰出农学家——贾思勰 2.Watch the video to learn Ji Sixie and his book. Assessing your progress 1.Read and complete the passage with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box. Jia Sixie was a government official from Shandong Province who conducted a lot of agricultural research in the sixth century. In his travels, he observed that some farmers had much better ______ than others, so he decided to investigate the best ways of _________ good harvests. After retiring, he wrote a book, Qi Min Yao Shu, which _______________ sound advice and practices for people doing agricultural work. In one piece of advice, __________, he told farmers to clear weeds from the ground before planting crops.They could either let the animals eat the weeds or turn the ____ over so that the weeds were covered. Then he gave advice on ploughing, suggesting that the autumn ploughing should be at a greater _____ than the spring ploughing. He also suggested changing crops to get better harvests every year. Finally, he suggested that farmers grow a ______ range of crops next to each other in the fields. Although it has been centuries since Jia Sixie died, Qi Min Yao Shu is still considered a(n) ________ book in Chinaʼs agricultural history. attain be comprised of depth diverse essential for instance output soil output attaining was comprised of for instance depth diverse essential soil Then answer the questions. 1. Why did Jia Sixie investigate good ways of farming? 2. What makes Qi Min Yao Shu an important book in Chinaʼs agricultural history? He was an official who wanted to help people. Because it was comprised of sound advice and practice for people doing agricultural work. 1. __________________ the research centre is to be set up has not been decided. 2. ______ many countri