新英美报刊选读（第五版） 课件 unit2 Passage1.pptx

;;Yuan Longping, Plant Scientist Who Helped Curb Famine, Dies at 90;;Biography of Yuan Longping Yuan Longping, a Chinese agriculturalist, was born in Qianyang, Hunan province in 1930. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953 and has since devoted himself to agricultural education and research.;Achievements of Yuan Longping Yuan Longping was a pioneer in hybrid rice research and made remarkable achievements in this area, first developing hybrid rice in the world. The achievements of Yuan Longping greatly solved the food shortage, and provided as a solution the worldwide starvation. It is regarded as the fifth invention after China’s Four Major Inventions, and is acclaimed as the Second Green Revolution.;Awards of Yuan Longping Gold Medal Award for the Outstanding Inventor of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization Science Prize of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Rank Prize for Agronomy and Nutrition of the United Kingdom Medal of Honor for Food Security and Sustainable Development of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization The 2004 World Food Prize Medal of the Republic;World Food Prize Winners; Scientists from China and Sierra Leone are the winners of this year’s ________________. Chinese Professor Yuan Longping and Monty Jones will share the ________________ prize. Both men are being ________________ work they did to improve rice production in ________________. Two-thousand-four is the International Year of Rice. ; Professor Yuan is head of the National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center in Hunan, China. He received________________ ___________for work he did in the nineteen-seventies. Mister Yuan developed ways to genetically combine different kinds of rice to ___________________. He discovered that combining two kinds of rice results in_________________________ new rice. He established the hybrid rice seed __________ in China. He also shared research and helped _