Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice ”, is one of China’s most f【小题1】scientists. Yet, he considers himself a farmer because he a【小题2】 works the land in his research. Indeed, his s【小题3】 but strong body is just like that of millions of Chinese farmers, to whom he has d【小题4】 his life.

Yuan Longping was born in 1930 in Beijing. His parents wanted him to p【小题5】 a career in science or medicine. However, what c【小题6】 him most was that farmers often had poor h【小题7】   and sometimes even had a serious s【小题8】of food to eat. To tackle this c【小题9】, he chose to study agriculture and received an e【小题10】 at Southwest Agricultural College in Chongqing.

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Francis Galton, born in 1822, was a 【小题9】 man. He was one of the first men to discover that every human being has a different set of fingerprints. He also invented the word association test and wrote a book on heredity that changed the ideas of a generation. But it is his genius for 【小题10】 life’s everyday problems that makes him endearing.

Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice”, considers himself a farmer. His slim but strong body is just like that of millions of Chinese farmers, to whom he has d【小题1】 his life.

Yuan was born in 1930 in Beijing. His parents wanted him to pursue a career in science or medicine. However, what concerned him most was that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes had a serious s【小题2】 of food. To t【小题3】 this crisis, he chose to study agriculture in a college.

After graduating in 1953, he worked as a researcher. Yuan realised that larger fields were not the solution. Instead, farmers needed to b【小题4】 yields in their fields. How this could be done was a challenging question. Yuan was c【小题5】 that the answer could be found in the creation of hybrid rice. One characteristic of hybrids is that they usually a【小题6】 a higher yield than c【小题7】 crops. Through i 【小题8】 effort, Yuan o【小题9】 technical difficulties to develop the first hybrid rice. This hybrid enabled farmers to expand their o【小题10】 greatly.