《2025年综合素质随堂反馈八年级英语下册译林版常州专版》

五、完形填空
Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist（科学家）, died at the age of 91 in Hunan. He was called the “Father of Hybrid Rice（杂交水稻）” and he helped __1__ people around the world.

Yuan Longping was the first person to develop a kind of hybrid rice which helped __2__ hunger（饥饿）in China. Food was a big problem in China in the past. This was because China had 22 per cent of the world’s population（人口）, but only 7 per cent of its __3__. In the 1960s, Chinese people had a difficult time. Many people even died because they had no food. Yuan was very __4__ to see this. He decided to work on a kind of hybrid rice.
At that time, other scientists didn’t think hybrid rice was worth（值得）__5__. But Yuan and his team worked on it every day. They took very good care of their rice seeds.
At last, they grew a new kind of hybrid rice. This rice is __6__. Farmers can grow it in many different kinds of farmlands and in bad __7__. Its output（产量）was much __8__ than common（普通的）kinds of rice. With the new kind, about 70 000 000 people could have food every year!
Yuan solved（解决）the food problem in China. But he was __9__ working on rice when he was very old. Before he retired（退休）, he hoped to grow rice in the sea!
Yuan said he had two dreams — to enjoy the __10__ under the rice crops taller than men in summer and that hybrid rice could be grown all over the world to help solve the food problem.
（ ）1. A. improve B. change C. feed D. teach
（ ）2. A. choose B. fight C. lose D. face
（ ）3. A. farmlands B. hills C. grasslands D. forests
（ ）4. A. angry B. interested C. hopeful D. sad
（ ）5. A. discussing B. studying C. eating D. buying
（ ）6. A. expensive B. new C. healthy D. strong
（ ）7. A. sea B. villages C. conditions D. gardens
（ ）8. A. greater B. smaller C. less D. slower
（ ）9. A. still B. again C. never D. even
（ ）10. A. trip B. cool C. treasure D. work

答案： 1-5 CBADB 6-10 DCAAB