Module 4 Great Scientists The Second Period Reading Comprehension学习目标：Enable students to understand the details about the passage.Choose the correct answers according to the text and fill in the form about the passage.Reading and Vocabulary导学一 Fill in the blanks with proper words or phrases from the text.Yuan Longping is a 1. figure in the rice-growing world. He was born and 2. _ in China. As a boy he was educated in many schools and interested in plants, so he was given the 3. “the student who asks questions”. As a young teacher, he began experiments in crop 4. .He thought there was only one way to have more rice quickly. That was to cross different 5. of rice plant. Then he began to 6. for a special type of rice plant. Finally, a naturally sterile male rice plant was discovered in 1970.This was a 7. .As a result of his discovery, Chinas rice production rose 8. 47.5% in the 1990s. And 50 thousand square kilometres of rice fields were 9. to growing vegetables and other cash crops. Following this, the new hybrid rice was 10. to other countries.导学二 Read the passage again, and then choose the best answer for each of the following. 1. How to produce more rice and more quickly?A. By enlarging growing area B. By crossing different species of rice plantC. By planting rice several times a year D. By adding more fertilizer2. The features of the special type of rice plant are .A. female and sterile B. male and born with seedsC. male and sterile D. female and born without seeds3. The greatest contribution Yuan Longping made is that .A. he discovered a rice plant with a higher yieldB. more rice fields were converted to growing vegetables and other cash cropsC. his discovery has been exported to other countriesD. more fields are used to grow rice4. Which of the following is True?A. Yuan Longping didnt study hard at school. B. European countries dont grow rice.C. Rice is the first most important crop in Pakistan.D. Yuan Longping once worked as a teacher.5. Whats the main idea of this passage?A. A brief introduction of Yuan Longping and his discovery.B. The importance of growing rice in a hungry food.C. How Yuan Longping experimented with different types of riceD. China is an agricultural country in great need of more rice.Cultural Corner导学三 Read the passage and decide whether the statements are True or False.1. Today rockets are only used to send astronauts into space. ( )2. Rockets were invented by Chinese about 2,000 years ago. ( )3. It was in the Song Dynasty that rockets were first used in wars. ( )4. It is believed that Europeans learned how to make rockets from the Mongols. ( )5. Wan Hu succeeded in sending himself into space with the help of rockets. ( )导学四 Read the passage again, and then choose the best answer for each of the following.1. Which country did not do rocket experiments according to the text?A. China B. England C. France D. America2. Which event about Wang Hu wasnt referred to in the text?A. who he was B. what did he do C. where he was born D. what he invented3. Who first used rockets for military purposes?A. The Song Dynasty B. The Mongols C. The Olympic Games D. One Italian Scientist练习In recent years many flowers shops have been appeared in our small town. It is common for people to buy flowers when they go to a gathering, visiting a sick friend, or attend a wedding or birthday party. I still remember clear one day last year when Tom, a disabled student, presented some flowers to his mother to express his gratitude for her. He owing his entire life to his mothers kind and care. With her he would not have had the confidence or the courage to fight his disability. As a result the great effort he has made, he was finally admitted to a key university.AA store that sells husbands has just opened in Ottawa where a woman may go to choose a husband from many men.The store is comprised of (由组成) 6 floors and the men increase in positive attributes（品质，特点）as the shopper goes up the flights. There is, however, a catch（陷阱）. As you open the door to any floor you may choose a man from that floor, but if you go up a floor, you cannot go back down except to exit the building.So a woman goes to the shopping center to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads: Floor 1These men have jobs. The woman reads the sign and says to herself, “Well, thats better than my last boyfriend, but I wonder whats further up?”So up she goes. The second floor sign reads: Floor 2These men have jobs and love kids. The woman remarks to herself, “Thats great, but I wonder whats further up?”And up she goes again. The third floor sign reads: Floor 3These men have jobs, love kids and are extremely