4. What activities does the school have?

(D)

　Fill in each blank according to what you read, only one word for each blank.

3. How many times a month do the students cook Chinese food?

2. Who can go to Chinese handwriting class?

1.　 How often can the students see films every month?

4. The Chinese scientist, Yuan Longping, is famous for________.

A. the Father of Rice　　　　 B. his rice to feed all Chinese

C. his hybrid rice　　　　 D. growing different kinds of rice

(C)

Our school is always asking students to take part in school activities ( 活动) and events. What's been going on in our school?

Every week there is a Film Night of popular Chinese and English films. After the films, there're discussion groups where the audience can share their ideas and ask questions about the films. Every two weeks, on Wednesday there is a Cooking Night. Students come and cook delicious Chinese dishes. The first Thursday of each month is a Fun Night. Students come to play computer games or to sing karaoke. There are karaoke competitions. So young people can come and show off their singing.

There are also a few short classes on subjects such as Chinese handwriting and the history of China. These are open to the whole city.

Every year we have a special activity with the name China Night. It is our most exciting and biggest activity of the year. There are traditional and modern Chinese singing, dancing and acting. What a great night it is!

Answer the following questions according to the passage you read.

3.　 Yuan Longping's hybrid rice________.

A. gets sick more often

B. is ordinary rice

C. can grow without water

D. can make more rice than the others

2. China________ in the world.

A. offers the best rice to people　　　 B. harvests the most rice

C. has the largest farmland　　　　 D. is short of rice

1. Rice is grown________ in the world.

A. in lots of countries　　　 B. for humans and animals

C. only on wet land　　　　　 D. by Chinese farmers

3. The young man's eyesight was really weak.

(B)

People all over the world eat rice. Millions of people in Asia, Africa, and South America live on it. Some people eat almost nothing but rice. Rice is a kind of grass. There are more than 7 000 kinds of rice. Most kinds are water plants. Farm­ers grow rice in many countries, even in the south of the United States and in eastern Australia.

China is the world's largest rice-growing country. In 2003, China grew 166 million tons of rice. But it is not easy to feed the world's largest population. In the 1960s, thousands of Chinese died because they, didn't have enough food to eat. In the 1970s, Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist, grew a new kind of rice called hybrid(杂交) rice. It makes 20% more rice than any other kind. Hybrid rice is a stronger plant, unlike ordinary rice. It can grow in lots of water or in not much water. It doesn't easily get diseases or worms.

Today, half of China's rice plants are Yuan's special hybrid rice. China uses Yuan's hybrid rice to grow much more rice than before. Yuan is known as the Fa­ther of Hybrid Rice. He won the World Food Prize for his work to help feed so many people.

Choose the best choice from A、B、Cor D according to the passage above.

2. At first the doctor believed what the young man had said.