高中英语外研版必修4学案：Module 4 Great Scientists含解析
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Module 4
Great Scientists
科学家在每个人的心目中都具有崇高的地位。
古往今
来，无数科学家的故事都激励着一代又一代人。
你最敬佩的
科学家是哪一位呢？下面就让我们一起了解一下中国著名
科学家——袁隆平！
Yuan Longping，a Chinese agriculturalist，was born in 1930.Professor Yuan graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953 and has devoted himself to agricultural education and research since then.He is currently an academician of the
Chinese Academy of Engineering and Honorary(名誉)President of the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Professor Yuan is a pioneer in hybrid rice research and has made remarkable achievements in this area.He first developed hybrid rice in the world.It is regarded as the fifth invention after China's Four Major Inventions，and is acclaimed as the Second Green Revolution.The achievements of Yuan Longping greatly solved the food shortage and provided a solution to the worldwide starvation.He was awarded with many international awards，such
as Gold Medal Award for the Outstanding Inventor of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization，ect.
As far as I'm concerned，agriculture is very important for a country and food supply is also important for people.We can't imagine what the world will be like if we lose agriculture and food supply.But thanks to some great agriculturalists，many problems about agriculture and food supply are solved.And in this module we'll learn about a famous agriculturalist—Yuan Longping.
1．currently ad v.目前；当前
2．acclaim v. 称赞
1. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
________________________________________________________________ 2．What's the influence of Yuan Longping's achievements on the world?
________________________________________________________________ 【答案】 1.Hybrid rice.
2．They greatly solved the food shortage and provided a solution to the worldwide starvation.。