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Unit 2 Book4 Reading学案 提示：单元学习前请阅读《英语周报》第期第一版。 ntensive reading（精读）I. Scanning / Fast reading(浏览、快读) Read the text quickly , answer the question: Which of the following statements tells the main idea of the text? It 抯 about____ . A. a farmer named Yuan Longping B. how Yuan Longping became rich and famous C. an agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain of rice D. a new strain of rice which is called super hybrid rice II. Careful reading:（仔细阅读） Read the text carefully and finish the following tasks. Task 1: Fill in the blanks in ex.1. add appearance, personalities. Task 2: 　1. True or False： Yuan Longping became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow super hybrid rice at the age of 40. (F) 2) More than 60% of the rice in the world is from the hybrid strain. (F) 3) According to the text, farmers in China are producing rice harvests nearly 4 times as large as that in 1950. (T) 2. Answer following questions : 1. What is YuanLongping a farmer or a scientist? 2. What’s his life goal ? 3.Does he care about his money and being famous? 4. What’s his hope for the future? Task 3: Retell the text by filling the following blanks. Famous scientists as he is, Yuan Longping considers himself a farmer. As a young man, Yuan Longping saw the great need for increasing the rice_______. At the time, ________ was a disturbing problem in China. He wanted to increase rice harvests without __________the area of the fields. In 1947, a special strain of rice made it possible to produce one-third more of the _______ in the same fields. __________to his rearch, the UN has more tools in the_____ his rice knowledge in less developed countries to increase their rice harvests and he wants to _____ his rice so that it can be grown around the globe. Though he has________ for the past five decades, Dr Yuan is quite __________with his life. In the spare time, he enjoys listening to violin music, playing mah-jo