People all over the world eat rice. 1 people in Asia (亚洲), Africa (非洲) and South America 2 it every day of their lives. Some people almost don't eat 3 except rice.

    Rice is a kind of 4. There are more than 7, 000 kinds of rice. Most kinds are water plants. Farmers 5rice in many countries even in the southern part of Russia and in eastern Australia.

    No one really knows where rice 6. Someone in China wrote about it almost 5,000 years ago. Some scientists (科学家) think that rice 7 in West Africa first, but 8 think it 9from India and then was 10to other parts of the world.