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C完形填空。(30分)

  Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator,known for developing the 1 hybrid rice (雜交水稻) varieties in the 1970s. He is called “The Father of Hybrid Rice”. By his achievement,the Earth is able to produce extra rice to feed tens of 2 of population.

  Mr Yuan was born in Beijing,China in 1930. He loves 3 erhu,swimming and motorcycling. He graduated 4 the Southwest Agriculture Institute in 1953. Then Yuan began teaching 5 an agriculture school in Anjiang,Hunan Province.

  He 6 up with an idea for hybridizing rice in the 1960s. Then large 7 of people died of 8 and disease. Since then,he has devoted 9 to the research of a better rice breed.

  In 1964,he 10 to find a natural hybrid rice plant that had 11 advantages (優(yōu)勢) over others. In 1973,in cooperation with 12 ,he was able to cultivate (培育) a type of hybrid rice species. It yielded 20 percent more than that of common ones.

  The next year they developed a set of technologies for 13 more rice. It put China in the 14 worldwide in rice production. For this achievement,he was called “The Father of Hybrid Rice”.

  At present,half of China’s total rice fields grow Yuan’s hybrid rice species. Because of his hard 15 , China’s total rice output rose from 5. 69 billion tons in 1950 to 19. 47 billion tons last year.

  The “Super Rice” Yuan is now testing yields 30 percent higher than those of common rice.

() 1. A. first   B. third   C. second   D. one

() 2. A. hundreds   B. thousands   C. millions   D. million

() 3. A. played   B. play   C. plays   D. playing

() 4. A. out   B. from   C. of   D. off

() 5. A. at   B. on   C. with   D. without

() 6. A. got   B. caught   C. came   D. went

() 7. A. number   B. numbers   C. lots   D. member

() 8. A. thirsty   B. hunger   C. hungry   D. illness

() 9. A. him   B. his   C. he   D. himself

() 10. A. happen   B. happened   C. happens   D. happening

() 11. A. many   B. no   C. much   D. little

() 12. A. others   B. another   C. other   D. the other

() 13. A. planting   B. having   C. growing   D. producing

() 14. A. headmaster   B. lead   C. chairman   D. importance

() 15. A. stone   B. job   C. heart   D. work

Answer 1

1. A 2.C 3.D 4.B 5.A 6.C 7.B 8.B 9.D 10.B 11.A 12.A 13.D 14.B 15.D

1.A   (本文主要介紹袁隆平是培育雜交稻第一人。故選A.)

2.C   (地球上的人口眾多，應用millions of表達。故選C.)

3.D   (love doing sth.是“愛好做某事”，表示一種習慣，故選D.)

4.B   (graduate from “畢業(yè)于某學校”。故選B〇)

5.A   (表示在一個學校，是較小的地點，選擇介詞at。故選C.)

6.C   (come up with意為“想出辦法/建議/答案”，聯(lián)系本文時態(tài) 應該用它的過去式came。故選C.)

7.B   (large numbers of意為“許許多多故選B.)

8.B   (由常識可知，那時許多人死于饑餓和疾病。故選B.)

9.D   (devote oneself to sth. “獻身于某事”，用反身代詞 himself。 故選D.)

10.B  (happen to do sth.意為“碰巧做某事”，聯(lián)系全文這里要用 過去時態(tài)。故選B.)

11.A  (many+可數(shù)名詞復數(shù)。故選A.)

12.A  (袁隆平與他人合作,不是一個人完成的，other意為“其他 的人”，這里要用其復數(shù)形式。故選A.)

13.D  (為了生存，人們要“生產(chǎn)”更多的水稻，應選producing。 故選D.)

14.B  (put... in the lead意為“把……放到領先地位”。這里是 說袁隆平的成績把中國推到世界水稻生產(chǎn)的領先地位。)

15.D  (因為袁隆平的辛勤工作，才能換來如此巨大的成績。)