Known as the “father of hybrid rice”, Yuan Longping is one of China's most famous scientist, who considers himself     1    farmer despite his fame and influence.

    2    (tackle) the crisis of food shortage, he attended Southwest Agricultural College and made    3     his mind to study agriculture. Then as a researcher, he was devoted to     4     (find) an approach to boosting yields without expanding the area of land. Having overcome enormous     5    （difficulty）, he developed the first hybrid rice in the world     6     could be used for farming in 1974, which made it possible for farmers to expand their output     7    (great). It is estimated that most of domestic rice consumption in China is comprised of crops     8     (generate) from his hybrid strains. Given his great contributions, he     9     (receive) numerous awards both in China and abroad since 1974. In spite of being wealthy,     10     he cares for is not celebrity or money. He makes large donations to support agricultural research. Old as he is, he is still working hard to fulfill his dream.

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Zhong Nanshan, an 83-year old doctor     1     became a household name 17 years ago for “daring to speak” in the fight     2     SARS, is the public face of China’s effort to control a new strain of coronavirus.

Despite his     3     (advance) age, Zhong was appointed to lead the     4     (investigate) into the new virus, which has rattled(使发狂)millions of Chinese who are traveling for the week-long Lunar New Year holiday.     5     (he) announcement on Monday that the virus could spread between humans ratcheted up(增加)     6     (worry) about the outbreak,     7     which Beijing has warned officials of public shame if they cover up any infections.

That marks a departure from 2003,     8     in an atmosphere of fear and suspicion, Zhong, a respiratory diseases specialist, gave media his candid(坦诚), pessimistic assessment of the severity of the SARS crisis.

Zhong was hailed for his integrity and     9     (remain) a public figure ever since,     10    (weight) in on public health issues such as air pollution and food safety.

Way back in 1674, a frog helped Antonie van Leeuwenhoek make an incredible     1     (discover). Antonie was an amateur scientist from Holland; so fascinated by microscopes (显微镜)     2     he built some of his own. One rainy day, as he went for a walk, a leaping frog     3     (draw) his attention to a puddle.

Antonie collected a drop of puddle water and put it     4     his microscope. He was amazed     5     (see) a whole community of creatures swimming in this one drop — tiny beings no one had ever seen before.

These tiny beings, called microbes, are everywhere: in dirt, in food and on your kitchen table. People     6     (cover) by them, too.     7     you were to count all the microbes on and inside your body, you would find your body has more microbes than the world has people!

Microbes can’t survive on     8     (they) own. They need food. After settling into a home — you, for instance — they steal vitamins and other nutrients and leave behind dead cells and     9     (poison) liquids called toxins. Some microbes can make you sick. People usually call them germs.     10     (fortunate) for you, there are more helpful microbes, working together to keep you healthy, than bad ones.