The father of hybrid rice（雜交水稻），Yuan Longping，is a great man in science.
   As a young teacher in Hunan's countryside，Yuan Longping knew people were terribly short of food from 1959 to 1961.On a day in 1960，Yuan went out of the school and found more people looking for food.So he felt he must do something.
   "Something like a small grain（谷物）can save a country，" he said in a show of CCTV.Yuan found the weather in some places in China was not friendly to wheat（小麥）.For ①residents there，rice was important.Now，the hybrid rice is in half of China and ②it feeds over 100 million people.
   Yuan Longping had great dreams in his life.He wanted to grow more hybrid rice to help more people.That comes true in many places of the world.People can find different kinds of hybrid rice in over 40 （A）    ，like the U.S.，Brazil，India，Vietnam，the Philippines，Madagascar among others.Also，he wanted to bring rice from seawater to people's table.

（1）從文中找出與"Yuan Longping is the father of hybrid rice and he is a great scientist."意思相同或相近的句子。

The father of hybrid rice，Yuan Longping，is a great man in science.

The father of hybrid rice，Yuan Longping，is a great man in science.

（2）翻譯劃線句子"Something like a small grain（谷物）can save a country."。

一粒小小的谷物就能拯救一個國家。

一粒小小的谷物就能拯救一個國家。

（3）根據(jù)文意猜測①處單詞的漢語意思，將其字母代號寫在橫線上。

B

B

A.肥料
B.居民
C.交通
（4）從文中找出②處劃線單詞it所指內(nèi)容。

The hybrid rice.

The hybrid rice.

（5）根據(jù)上下文在（A）處填入一個恰當?shù)膯卧~：

countries

countries

（6）根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容填空，每空一詞。
Yuan Longping had great dreams in his life.He dreamed of

growing

growing

more hybrid rice to help more people and he also dreamed of

bringing

bringing

rice from seawater to people's table.