Unit 5 Working the land Reading and Thinking 课件-2023-2024学年高二英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册

What do you know about the man? a great scientist “father of hybrid rice” Born in 1930, Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator. He is known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, and is called "The Father of Hybrid Rice". The hybrid rice has saved several billion people at home and abroad from starving. His contribution to mankind is enormous. In 2021, he died in Changsha at the age of 91. Yuan Longping(1930-2021) My lifelong pursuit is to keep all the people away from hunger. --Yuan Longping In this class, you will read about agricultural scientist Yuan Longping; analyse why Yuan Longping is called a pioneer for all people. Learning objectives: 认为自己是…… 致力于学科学/学医 为了解决这场危机 接受教育 耕种土地 Read the text. How does the author describe Yuan Longping with the following expressions? 提高产量 一个难题 通过不懈努力 克服众多技术问题 颐养天年 远非，远不是 不慕名利 在内心深处 为……大量捐赠 国内外 年事已高 充满憧憬 A pioneer for all people Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice”, is one of China’s most famous scientists. Yet, he considers himself a farmer because he continually works the land in his research. Indeed, his slim but strong body is just like that of millions of Chinese farmers, to whom he has devoted his life. Paragraph 1 认为自己是…… 耕种土地 Paragraph 2: Yuan Longping’s youth and education Yuan Longping was born in 1930 in Beijing. His parents wanted him to pursue a career in science or medicine. However, what concerned him most was that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes even had a serious shortage of food to eat. To tackle this crisis, he chose to study agriculture and received an education at Southwest Agricultural College in Chongqing. 致力于学科学/学医 为了解决这场危机 接受教育 After graduating in 1953, he worked as a researcher. Yuan Longping realised that larger fields were not the solution. Instead, farmers needed to boost yields in the fields they had. How this could be done was a challenging question at the time. Yuan was convinced that the answer could be f