英語(yǔ)必修4第二單元 Warming up and Reading

1、PoemBy Li ShenFarmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon.Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day.Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them?If not, what kind of plant would you like to grow?How will you grow it?select the seeds plough the soil turn over the

2、soil sow the seeds remove the weeds fertilize farming stepsFarming sowingploughing irrigating (灌溉灌溉)cropsweather &climaterice transplanting (插秧插秧)When we speak of farming, what words can we think of?Ploughing (犁田犁田) seedingfertilizing(施肥施肥)irrigating (灌溉灌溉)transplanting 插秧插秧harvestingwinnowing (揚(yáng)揚(yáng) 谷

3、谷)riceWhat is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries?Rice. It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world. Answer the following questions:Pre-readingWhat do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? suffer fr

4、om starvation and starve to death. feel scared / be panic(驚慌驚慌). fight for food, even kill each other and the whole country would get into trouble.If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?How to solve hunger?making good use of the waste landdeveloping

5、 the technology to inventing a new kind of foodimproving the quality of the soil preventing the pests from eating our cropsFather of Hybrid RiceWhy does Yuan Longping want everyone to call him a farmer ?A Because his sunburnt face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of

6、 other Chinese farmers.B Because he comes from countryside.C Because he thinks of himself as a farmer and he works the land to his research and in many ways, he is like a farmer.2. What does the word “battle” refer to in the second paragraph?A. The low rice output.B. Ridding the world of hunger.C. F

7、ighting against farming.D. The freedom to do research.3. Why did Dr Yuan want to increase the rice output ?A Because he graduated from agriculture college.B Because he liked to study the rice.C Because he saw the great need for increasing the rice output.D Because he knew he would become famous.4. W

8、hy did Dr Yuan spread his knowledge to some less developed countries ?A To make some money.B To increase their rice harvests.C To do research on his hybrid rice.D To make China more famous in the world.5. How does Yuan Longping feel about money ?A Too much money can only bring more troubles than hap

9、piness.B One has to own a large sum of money.C Money is not important at all.D One has to spend all his money on his own research.6. The whole passage mainly talks about ?A how to solve the worlds hunger problemB how to increase rice harvestsC Yuan Longpings achievements in farmingD Yuan Longpings d

10、aily life7. From the passage, we can know _.A. Yuan Longping is not a pioneer but a scientist in the research of the hybrid riceB. Yuans parents are both agricultural scientistsC. more than 60% of the rice produced in the world is from the hybrid strainD. using the hybrid rice, farmers are producing

11、 harvests twice as large as before 8. It can be inferred from the text that _.A. Yuan knew the importance of rice importB. Yuan is interested in playing the violin C. Yuan is proud of his achievementsD. Yuans rice are grown in many countries a farmer named Yuan Longping how Yuan Longping became rich

12、 and famousC. 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 u Which of the following statements tells the main idea of the text? It s about_ . Para1 A. Dr Yuans dreams. Para2 B. Dr Yuans personali

13、ty. Para3 C. Dr Yuans biography. Para4 D. Dr Yuans appearance and his achievement.A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.Careful ReadingRead the text and fill in the blanks. Yuan LongpingAppearance His_ face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like Ch

14、inese farmers.sunburntAchievements In 1973, he became the first _ in the world to grow high output rice. Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the _ to rid the world of hunger.battleagricultural pioneerMain events In 1930, he was born into a poor farmers family. He _ from Southwest Agricu

15、ltural College in 1953. Since 1953, finding ways to grow more rice has been his _. He is now _ his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other less developed countries.circulatinggraduatedlife goalPersonalities He is quite _ with his life but doesnt_ being famous. He has many hobbies such as listening to violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and reading. He believes that a person with too much money has more _ fewer troubles.rather thansatisfiedcare about _ To produce a kind of rice that could _ more people. To _his rice so that it