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Unit2 working the land
A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE
Although he is one of China's most famous scientists, Yuan Longping _______ himself a farmer, for he _______the land to do his research. Indeed, his _______face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of Chinese farmers, _______ he has struggled for the past five decades. Dr Yuan Longping grows ______ is called super hybrid rice. In 1974, he became the first agricultural _______ in the world to grow rice that has a high output. This special strain of rice____________________使得同样的田地多收获 one-third more of the crop in the same fields. Now more than 60% of the rice produced in China each year is from this hybrid strain.
______ into a poor farmer's family in 1930, Dr Yuan graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then, ______(find) ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. As a young man, he saw the great need for increasing the rice output. At that time, ______was a ________(disturb) problem in many parts of the countryside. Dr Yuan searched for a way to increase rice harvests _______expanding the area of the fields. In 1950, Chinese farmers could produce only fifty million tons of rice. In a recent harvest, however, nearly two hundred million tons of rice was produced. These increased harvests mean that 22% of the world's people