Question

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.Who is Pierre?

A. A doctor from Senegal.

B. A university researcher.

C. A United Nations official.

2.What does Pierre mainly talk about?

A. Food supplies in the world.

B. The role that the UN plays.

C. The purpose of his study.

3.What is the expected outcome of Pierre's work?

A. A new medicine.    B. A new type of rice.    C. A new farming method.

Answer

1. B

2. C

3. B

【解析】

Hello, everyone. It is indeed a great pleasure to have this chance to address such a large audience this evening. I'm Pierre Chabrol from the University of Marseille. At the moment I'm carrying out a research in Senegal for the United Nations as a part of project to increase the world food production. Before I get on to what exactly we did in our research, I would like to explain briefly the purpose behind it. Quite simply my subject is rice. As you all know, rice is the main food for millions of people in the world. So if the rice crops fail, millions of people starve and die. And they do fail, very often through disease. Now what my colleagues and I have been doing out in the field in Senegal as well as in the university laboratories is to try to produce a disease-resisting variety of rice, a particular kind of rice, which will resist disease, in other words, a stronger type of rice.

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