working the landPPT(1)

Finally we covered the deeds by ploughing again.
and Southeast Asian countries. What do Some 700,000 central Americans are every eight seconds, a child somewhere you think would happen if tomorrow suffering from hunger today, including in the world dies from starvation. More there children was suddenly no rice to eat? 6,000 at risk of starving death. than 6 million children under the to age of 5 die from starvation every year. most The African countries suffering If that happened, people there severely from 800 food shortage areAnd Malawi, would More than million people in the suffer from starvation. Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia world suffer from chronic malnutrition –-the whole country would get into and Zimbabwe. 799 million of them are from the trouble. developing world. More than 153 million of them are under the age of 5.
Dr Yuan Longping(袁隆平博士）
Which of the following statements tells the main idea of the text? It ’s 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
Unit 2
Working the land
W来自百度文库at are doing?
They are planting the rice.
Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them? They are ploughing the soil. First we ploughed the soil deep. Second we put the seeds into the tunnel.
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 and Development Center in Hunan Province,China(中国湖南省国家杂交水稻 研究与发展中心).He is called a pioneer for all people.
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Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like? He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body.He is more like a farmer than a scientist. Q2: What is his achievement? He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. True or False:
Warming Facts up on Hunger International and Q1. Rice Poverty(2002) is a main food in all East Asian
If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? 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. I would invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.