【正文】 se of these fertilizers can cause damage to the land and, even more dangerous, to people39。s family in 1930, Dr Yuan graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in then, finding ways to grow more rice has been his life a young man, he saw the great need for increasing the rice that time, hunger was a disturbing problem in many parts of the Yuan searched for a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of the 1950, Chinese farmers could produce only fifty million tons of a recent harvest, however, nearly two hundred million tons of rice was increased harvests mean that 22% of the world39。第一篇：高中英語必修四 unit2 課文原文A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE Although he is one of China39。s most famous scientists, Yuan Longping considers himself a farmer, for he works the land to do his , his sunburnt face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of Chinese farmers, for whom he has struggled for the past five Yuan Longping grows what is called super hybrid 1974, he became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high special strain of rice makes it possible to produce onethird more of the crop in the same more than 60% of the rice produced in China each year is from this hybrid into a poor farmer39。s people are fed from just 7% of the farmland in Yuan is now circulating his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other less developed countries to increase their rice to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as Yuan is quite satisfied with his , he doesn39。s are some of the problems caused by chemical fertilizers? First, they damage the land by killing the helpful bacteria and pests as well as the harmful also stay in the ground and underground water for a long affects crops and, therefore, animals and humans, since chemicals get inside the crops and cannot just be washed chemicals in the food supply build up in people39。s surface followed by vegetables that put down deep organic farmers prefer planting grass between crops to prevent wind or water from carrying away the soil, and then leaving it in the ground to bee a natural fertilizer for the next year39。s health.第二篇：高中英語必修2課文及原文高中英語必修2（人教版）Unit1 Cultural relics IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM Frederick William I, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make amber which was selected had a beautiful yellowbrown colour like design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country39。s winter palace in St four metres long, the room served as a small reception hall for important , Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her told her artists to add more details to 1770 the room was pleted the way she six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like , although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now September 1941, the Nazi army was near St was a time when the two countries were at the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able to remove some furniture and small art objects from the Amber , some of the Nazis secretly stole the room less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twentyseven wooden is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic that, what happened to the Amber Room remains a , the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer studying old photos of the former Amber Room, they have made the new one look like the old 2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they celebrated the 300th birthday of their FACT OR AN OPINION? What is a fact? Is it something that people believe? fact is anything that can be example, it can be proved that China has more people than any other country in the is a what is an opinion? An opinion is what someone believes is true but has not been an opinion is not good evidence in a example, it is an opinion if you say “Cats are better pets than dogs”.It may be true, but it is difficult to people may not agree with this opinion but they also cannot prove that they are a trial, a judge must decide which eyewitnesses to believe and which not to judge does not consider what each eyewitness looks like or where that person lives or , which must be facts rather than kind of information is called 文化遺產(chǎn) 閱讀一 尋找琥珀普魯士國王腓特烈這個(gè)禮物是因?yàn)橛蓭讎嶇曛瞥啥溺晡?。這間屋的設(shè)計(jì)是當(dāng)時(shí)最流行的奇特的風(fēng) 格。事實(shí)上，這間屋不是制來當(dāng)禮物的。然而，普魯士下一任國王同樣是琥珀屋的擁有者，腓特烈威廉一世決定不保留琥珀屋。作為報(bào)答，沙皇給了腓特烈一隊(duì)他最好的士兵。琥珀屋作為一個(gè)大概四米長的只為重要訪客的小接待處。她讓她的藝術(shù)家加了跟多的細(xì)節(jié)在里面。接近600只蠟燭在屋內(nèi)燃燒著，把鏡子和圖畫都照得像金子一樣。在1941年9月，納粹軍隊(duì)在圣彼得堡附近。在納粹去到避暑地方之前，俄國人民能夠從琥珀屋里搬走一些家具和小的藝術(shù)品。至少兩天內(nèi)100000多片琥珀被放進(jìn)27個(gè)木箱里。之后，琥珀屋發(fā)生了神馬仍然是個(gè)迷。通過研究之前的琥珀屋的照片，他們制造了一座新的琥珀屋像舊的那座一樣。閱讀二一個(gè)事實(shí)還是一個(gè)觀點(diǎn)神馬是事實(shí)？是一些人們相信的東西嗎？不！事實(shí)是可以被證明的任何事。這是一個(gè)事實(shí)。所以一個(gè)觀點(diǎn)在一個(gè)審判中不是一個(gè)好的證據(jù)。這可能是真的，不過很難去證明。在一場審批中，一個(gè)審判官一定要去決定相信哪個(gè)目擊者哪個(gè)目擊者不應(yīng)該相信。他/她 只關(guān)心目擊者是否會提供真是的信息，信息一定是事實(shí)而不是觀點(diǎn)。Unit 2 The Olympic GamesAN INTERVIEW Pausanias, who was a Greek writer about 2,000 years ago, has e on a magical journey on March 18th 2007 to find out about the presentday Olympic is now interviewing Li Yan, a volunteer for the 2008 Olympic : My name is lived in what you call “Ancient Greece” and I used to write about the Olympic Games a long time ’ve e to your time to find out about the presentday Olympic Games because I know that in 2004 they were held in my I ask you some questions about the modern Olympics? L: Good heavens!Have you really e from so long ago? But of course you can ask any questions you would you like to know? P: How often do you hold your Games? L: Every four are two main sets of Gamesthe Winter and Summer Olympics, and both are held every