More Youths Answer Xi’s Call in Science
Chinese researchers get younger and help nation make great progress in science.
During a discussion with some of Chinese youth, President Xi Jinping called young people “the most energetic and creative group of our society” and said that they should “stand in the front of changes and creation”.
Chinese young people have heartedly answered President Xi’s call. Since then, there has been a notable development that Chinese scientists in their 30s are the backbone of some of the country’s greatest scientific and technological fields. In 2018, the average（平均的） age of the researchers in China’s science and technology fields was 35.9, down from 36.8 in 2013 and 37.4 in 2008, according to a survey made every five years by the China Association for Science and Technology.
This trend is shown among the scientists and engineers working on the FAST, which is also known as “Sky Eye”. It has a research workforce hat is mostly in their 30s.”People often called out team a good example, but we were just a group of ordinary people who joined the project in our 20s, and worked tirelessly for it into our 30s and 40s,”one of the team members said.
Yao Rui, a researcher who joined the FAST team at the age of 28, said that “Having a problem is the least of my worries, because wherever there is a problem, there is a chance to work it out,” she said. “As a young scientist, I am so lucky that I can not only meet the needs of the nation, but also release my personal passions, so I can improve and grow together with my country.”
Sun Jinghai, 38, said he had spent the last 15 years at FAST perfecting and protecting the giant machine. “And I gave my youth to the science research, and it helped me grow in return, enlarged my professional knowledge, and rewarded me with confidence as I overcame a lot of obstacles and failures,” he added.
【小题1】What’s the change of researchers’ age?【小题2】将划线句子Having a problem is the least of my worries, because wherever there is a problem, there is a chance to work it out翻译成汉语。
【小题3】列举科学研究给年轻科研者带来的两个益处。
【小题4】从文中找出 “We were only a crowd of common people, although we were often praised as a model.”句子意思相同或相近的句子。
【小题5】根据短文内容填空。每空一词。
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