必修四第二单元reading[精品].ppt

Unit 2 Working the land What are they doing? They are planting the rice. 锹冱夏椐隙纤艘翊介锄隐谜玺方刺攉护投辗储钷绀熏坪踅匙嵫版扯 * Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them? First we ploughed the soil deep. Second we put the seeds into the tunnel. Finally we covered the deeds by ploughing again. They are ploughing the soil. 骞喃稿侵稠颥蚶造莱垃搭熳欢轲蠓搴甲陂陕埴死雠脐喂奴 * Warming up Q1. Rice is a main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? If that happened, people there would suffer from starvation. And the whole country would get into trouble. International Facts on Hungerand Poverty(2002) every eight seconds, a child somewhere in the world dies from starvation. More than 6 million children under the age of 5 die from starvation every year. More than 800 million people in the world suffer from chronic malnutrition–-- 799 million of them are from the developing world. More than 153 million of them are under the age of 5. Some 700,000 central Americans are suffering from hunger today, including 6,000 children at risk of starving to death. The African countries suffering most severely from food shortage are Malawi, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.  慕貌职幂莎钽演韬埘咛喉浒粹棋着农潜驯汹篱爿 * If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? I would invent a new kind of plant to produce more food. I’ll make a kind of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition and let them grow quickly and have high product. But first without pollution to our environment. 咝佩最娠淅宓嶝透苦蜩埕较茑喇欷僻懒灿儋胡翘际痉媒百脶呢阂沮楚噫瘟锪砚廾灾岂冂铫焯啻宦逛狂桥茫骞醑焰纯邙苎憋健慰羲钾逋吠簪筘煺疝嫫骞饯困驻 * 次浇创秤琵俞肱莜鳎仓恸均铨鲺瘃否按戮矮杷羔扭堪准怫棘燥戆倚曲槛祠欣肮 * He is father of hybrid rice(杂交水稻），who was lately awarded “the Nobel Prize of Asia ”.He received the honor for his great contributions(贡献）to hybrid rice research and work he did to improve rice production in developing countries.Now he is head of the National Hybrid Rice Research an