Question

People all over the world eat rice．Millions of people in Asia, Africa and South America eat it every day．Some people eat almost nothing but rice．

Rice is a kind of grain．There are more than 7000 kinds of rice．Farmers grow rice in many countries, even in the southern part of the United States and in eastern Australia．

No one really knows where rice came from．Some scientists think that it started to grow in two places．They think that one kind of rice grew in southern Asia thousands of years ago, another kind probably grew in West Africa．Other scientists think that rice came from India, and Indian travelers took it to other parts of the world．

People in many countries do all the work hundreds of years ago, but in some countries, people now use machines on their rice farms．

Rice plants can be very useful to people．They can be used to make animal food and rice oil．People also make baskets, brooms and roofs for their houses．They burn dry rice plants for cooking．

任务一：根据短文内容，回答l—2小题。

1．How many kinds of rice are there?

2．Where do scientists think rice came from?

任务二：根据短文内容，判断正(T)误(F)。

3．Farmers used machines on their rice farms to grow rice hundreds of years ago．

任务三：将画线部分译成汉语。

4．                                    

任务四：请给出文章标题。

5．                                     

Answer 1

1．more than/over 7000

2．Southern Asia, West Africa or India

3．F

4．在许多国家，甚至在美国南方和澳大利亚东部，农民都种水稻。

5．Rice