前日，“杂交水稻之父”、“共和国勋章”获得者袁隆平驾鹤西去。向袁老学习，继承是最好的缅怀。
我是2005年才对袁隆平有初步了解。2005年，我在21st Century上读到了一篇英语文章，讲述的是袁隆平杂交水稻研究历程及获得的重大成果。同年6月3日下午，我有幸接到黑龙江教育厅的通知，要求我次日赴哈尔滨参加中考英语命题工作。我开始准备行囊，想起来要把这篇有关袁隆平杂交水稻的文章签下来装在衣袋里。
到省教育厅参加动员会后奔赴命题点，安检后偷偷地把这篇文章带进了寝室，打算把这篇文章作为阅读理解的素材。三人命题，我又不是组长，没好意思把这篇文章拿出来。三日后，审题人员进入审题，阅读理解（四选一）没有通过，要求重新选材命题。于是，我拿出这篇文章与命题组长商量，能不能用这个素材，他同意了，让我着手命制这道题。按照要求，不得出原题或陈旧的阅读素材，我便收集了关于水稻的语段与这篇关于杂交水稻的文章融合，改编了一篇225词的的文章并设置四个选择题。文章通过介绍我国科学家袁隆平及他所培育的杂交水稻,以及他在自己平凡的工作岗位上为国家做出的杰出贡献，向学生渗透热爱科学的理念，树立责任担当意识，培养学生脚踏实地、认真做事、做好学问的求实精神。
因为纸质稿遗失，网上也查不到，幸好在电脑里找到了尘封16年的电子稿，内容如下：
People all over the world eat rice. Millions of people in Asia, Africa, and South America live on it. Some people eat almost nothing but rice. Rice is a kind of grass. There are more than 7,000 kinds of rice. Most kinds are water plants. Farmers grow rice in many countries, even in the south of the United States and in eastern Australia.
China is the world’s largest rice-growing country. In 2003, China grew 166 million tons of rice. But it is not easy to feed the world’s largest population. In the 1960s, thousands of Chinese died because they had no food to eat. In the 1970s, Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist, grew a new kind of rice called hybrid(杂交) rice. It makes 20 % more rice than any other kind. Hybrid rice is a stronger plant, unlike ordinary rice. It can grow in lots of water or in not much water. It doesn’t easily get diseases or worms.
Today, half of China’s rice plants are Yuan’s special hybrid. China uses Yuan’s hybrid rice to grow much more rice than before. Yuan is known as the Father of Hybrid Rice”. He won the World Food Prize for his work to help feed so many people.
Choose the best choice from ABC or D according to the passage above.
1. Rice is grown ______ in the world.
A. in lots of countries
B. for humans and animals
C. only on wet land
D. by Chinese farmers
2. China ______ in the world.
A. offers the best rice to people
B. harvests the most rice
C. has the largest farmland
D. is short of rice
3. Yuan Longping’s hybrid rice ______.
A. gets sick more often
B. is ordinary rice
C. can grow without water
D. can make more rice than the others
4. The Chinese scientist, Yuan Longping, is famous for ______.
A. the Father of Rice
B. his rice to feed all Chinese
C. his hybrid rice
D. growing different kinds of rice
当时，此阅读理解题，受到命题组、审题组的赞誉和好评。
中考是终结性考试，可以说是初中生的最后一堂课，除了选拔功能外，其文本材料的选编也应该是教科书级别的，内容应该紧跟时代脉搏，厚植家国情怀和使命担当，落实核心素养。
