上週六，共和國一天內痛失兩位國士，“雜交水稻之父”袁隆平院士讓中國人“填飽肚子”，“肝臟外科之父”吳孟超院士一生都在治病救人。
昨夜山河齊慟震，今朝雙星辭九州。
關於袁隆平院士一生的坎坷和堅持，我們週六在文章袁隆平逝世！那個“讓天下人都吃飽飯”的人走了 中簡略寫過，今天準備了一篇精讀課件，幫助大家重溫袁老取得的成就。
我們本來也想準備一篇吳孟超院士的文章，但涉及醫學專業領域，所能找到的英文文章非常艱澀，還不適合同學們閱讀。
這世上沒有神仙，也無需立廟，因為每一縷升起的炊煙，都是飄自人間的懷念。
在開始今天的外刊精讀課件學習之前，小編帶著大家再次重溫袁老生前的一個電影片段。他曾在電影《袁隆平》中出演自己，接受外國記者採訪，用英語闡述自己的兩大夢想：雜交水稻覆蓋全球夢和禾下乘涼夢，說起夢境袁老幸福微笑。
小編根據視頻特意整理出英語字幕，中英對照，供大家一睹袁老的風采。
現在，正式進入外刊精讀課件學習，原文有刪減改動。
Tributes Flow for Yuan Longping, Who Helped Save China from Hunger
Yuan Longping, China’s “father of hybrid rice” and hailed for his contributions to the country’s food security, died on Saturday. He was 91 years old.
The Chinese agronomist was known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s and regarded as a national hero for boosting grain harvests and helping to feed the world’s most populous country.
News of Yuan’s death prompted a flood of tributes online and was a top-ranking topic on Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
Born in Beijing in September 1930, Yuan began his career as an agrarian researcher in the 1950s. He often said in interviews that he was driven to increase rice output in China because of the hunger he had witnessed. “My lifetime pursuit is to ensure all people stay away from hunger,” he once said.
In the decades that followed, Yuan was associated with some of the most important breakthroughs in his field.
As early as 1964, Yuan theorised that a male-sterile grain could be crossed with other plants to boost yields, but it was not until 1973 that he cultivated the first hybrid rice thanks to the discovery of a wild rice species that made the breakthrough possible. Mass cultivation of the crop began in 1976 and proved key to China being able to feed one-fifth of the world's population with just 9 per cent of its arable land.
In 1995, he produced a two-line hybrid rice and was tasked by the government to improve yields still further. He later developed a single line hybrid rice. In 1996, the agriculture ministry tasked Yuan to start a programme to breed “super rice”, plants of much higher yields.
Hybrid rice varieties have yields that tend to be about 20 per cent higher than those of conventional rice, and have been planted in 16 million hectares, or more than half of China's rice acreage. China could feed 70 million more people thanks to Yuan's research.
Yuan was awarded the World Food Prize in 2004, for “pioneering research that helped transform China from food deficiency to food security within three decades”.
China first exported hybrid rice to the United States in 1979 and has forged agreements on the technology — sometimes dubbed “rice diplomacy” — with several developing countries, including the Philippines, Pakistan and Madagascar. According to the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Centre, about 8 million hectares overseas has been planted with the varieties.
In his later years, he was also involved in research in China and Dubai into growing crops in diluted seawater.
In 2019, Yuan was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the country’s highest honour, for his contribution to China’s food security and scientific development of agriculture, as well as increasing the world’s food output.
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● 【雙語課件】受疫情影響全國破產的巴西，一小鎮卻在中國疫苗幫助下“逆天改命”
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● 【雙語課件】蘇伊士運河通了！這次堵船事件，沒那麼簡單
● 【雙語課件】疫苗注射相關詞彙學習（附測試題）
● 【雙語課件】受疫情影響全國破產的巴西，一小鎮卻在中國疫苗幫助下“逆天改命”
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