“Huh! Rice again?”

These days, many people are so picky(挑剔的) about food. When they feel fed up with eating rice, they just _________ lots of it.

Well, if they had lived 75 years ago, they would never have done so. At that time, starving(挨饿) to death was _________ in China. Yuan Longping, then a teenager, felt heartbroken about this. He thought, “What if I could grow enough rice? In that way, nobody would ever die of _________!” This dream became a little _________ in Yuan’s heart. After he finished high school, he decided to study agriculture.

China is large, but the land that can be used to grow rice is quite limited. That’s why it was difficult to grow _________ rice for everybody.

In 1960,as an agricultural researcher, Yuan came up with the idea for hybrid rice (杂交水稻). After years of hard work, in 1973, he developed the world’s first high-yield (高产的) hybrid rice. It was a(n) _________ piece of news.

With this rice, an extra 70 million people could be fed each year! The seed in Yuan’s heart finally sprouted (发芽)!

Yuan’s rice has since been grown worldwide. Yuan, _________, always wanted his rice to be more, and more, productive. Even in his 90s, the “Father of Hybrid Rice” was still busy doing _________.

Yuan died several months ago, but his invention will continue to _________ people around the world.

The next time you see rice, think about Yuan and his hard work. Ask yourself: Is it okay to be a __________ eater?

【推荐3】Bill Gates has the most money in the world. He’s a very famous computer ______ and a very successful businessman(商人).

Bill’s father was a successful lawyer(律师) and ______ mother was a teacher. He learnt a lot from his parents. He ______ from his father the meaning of the saying “No pains, no gains(不劳则无获)”. He also learnt from his mother that a person must know ______ to make the best use of time by making rules.

When Bill was young, he ______ a lot of time reading books. He also did lots of sports such as tennis, swimming and water-skiing. He loved to be a ______ man and hated to lose. ______ he was older, he became more and more interested in working and playing on computers.

When he was ______ a student, he invented the world’s first computer language for the personal(个人的) computers. Then he thought that every family was going to have a computer, and every computer would ______ his software(软件). So he started his Microsoft Company ______ finishing his studies. He said, “I’m making my first million dollars(美元) on software by the time I’m twenty-five.” And he made it!