【Mostpeopleintheworldeatrice．MillionsofpeopleinAsia，Africaandotherpartsoftheworldlive（71）___it．Somepeopleeatalmostnothingbut（72）___．Riceisakindofgrass．Thereareover7，000kindsofricearoundtheworld】

　　Most people in the world eat rice．Millions of people in Asia，Africa and other parts of the world live （71）___ it．Some people eat almost nothing but （72）___．

　　Rice is a kind of grass．There are over 7，000kinds of rice around the world．Most of （73）___ are water plants．Farmers grow rice in a lot of countries，even in South America and in eastern Australia．

　　China is the largest rice-growing country all over the world．In 2003，China got 166million tons of rice．But it couldn't serve the world's largest （74）___．In the 1960s，thousands of people lost their lives （75）___ they didn't have food to eat．In the 1970s，Yuan Longping，（76）___Chinese scientist，grew a new kind of hybrid rice．It produced 20% （77）___ rice than other kinds．Hybrid rice is much stronger than any other one．It can （78）___ both in lots of water and in not much water．It doesn't （79）___ get diseases or worms．

　　Today，most China's rice plants are Yuan's special hybrid rice．China gets much more rice than before．Yuan Longping is also （80）___ as the Father of Hybrid Rice．In 2009，he won the World Food Prize for his work．We are proud of him．