【推荐2】In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory _______course about 20 years ago.

The professor _______the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans (豆), and invited the students to guess how many beans the jar contained. After _______shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the _______answer, and went on saying, “You have just _______an important lesson about science. That is: Never trust your own senses.”

Twenty years later, the _______could guess what the professor had in mind. He _______himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting _______into an unknown world invisible (无形的) to the eye, which can be discovered only through scientific _______. But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even hear the invitation. She was just ________to understand the world. And she ________that her first­hand experience could be the truth. The professor, however, said that it was ________. He was taking away her only ________for knowing and was providing her with no substitute. “I remember feeling small and ________,” the woman says, “and I did the only thing I could do. I ________the course that afternoon, and I haven’t gone near science since.”

【推荐3】Seeing the news of the 2022 Nobel Prize on TV, I can’t help _________ a tale about a remarkable physicist, Albert Einstein. When Einstein was a little kid, his father bought him a compass as a gift. He was amazed by it. It was that moment, as Einstein later said, that _________ the beginning of his scientific journey. Many other great _________ in history had similar stories

It always amazed me how such an experience could have a huge impact on one’s life. _________ Einstein and other science giants, I don’t remember having any particular experience that _________ my interest in science. For me, I was not a matter of a single event, but rather many of them.

As a kid I enjoyed spending hours watching stars during summer nights. I tried to see if some of those shining dots displayed certain figures, I found magnetism (磁力) and electricity very interesting too. I didn’t really _________ these concepts, but I could play with them.

I showed great interest in physics at school. To learn more about it, I began my undergraduate studies. A lot changed about me at this stage. I still had the same _________, but my perspective (思维方式) was widened as I was introduced to many more fascinating parts of _________. Consequently, my interest in the field was shaped.

Following my graduation, I decided to study abroad. My initial _________ was to get an internationally—praised level of education. However, such an experience __________ more than that. Most importantly, it meant that I would be in an environment where I could fully immerse (沉浸) myself in my work and subjects of physics.

__________, I realized what I missed most during my undergraduate studies was __________ work. It was a lot more satisfying than just trying to do science on paper. __________, my master’s degree study program also gives me these opportunities. I get __________ to so many research areas and opportunities for practical work. __________ all these experiences, I’ve discovered for myself what I want to be in physics.

【推荐1】Each year the headmaster of the school where I work asks us to read a book chosen by him. The book provides a framework for work we will do throughout the school year, which can ____better service to our students.

This year's book is The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson. Robinson uses the term “the Element” to ____the place where the things we love to do and the things we are ____at come together. He goes on to say that he feels it is ____for each of us to find our Element, not just for our own ____ , but for the improvement of our communities.

How easy is it to look at those who seem to have found their Element. They are great at what they do, and we ____they love to do it because they do what they do so well. But what is important to note, Robinson says, is that each of us has the ability to find the Element.

In ____ settings, there is an effort to help students uncover what ____ they have been given. The goal then is to help them discover these talents through experience and education. ____, this is only one piece of the puzzle. Another piece is finding where a person's talent and the love of ____ that talent intersect(相交).

I like this book very much since it ____ my own life: how I parent my kid, how I teach, and how I ____support to the students I work with, ____or in groups. I appreciate the ____of this book as it helps to ____growth potential within communities and individuals.

Realizing our God-given talent and properly practicing that talent are ____ and depend on each other for existence. The perfect ____ of them can benefit not just ourselves_? but our ____, communities and the whole world we humans live in. As a _____, I am really looking forward to _____my part.

【推荐2】Do you think you have what it takes to be a successful scientist？A successful scientist is generally a good observer.He makes full_______of the facts he observes.He doesn't accept ideas which are not based on obvious facts, and therefore   _______   to accept authority as the only reason for truth.He always checks ideas _______ and makes experiments to prove them.

The rise of modern science may perhaps be considered to _______ as far back as the time of Roger Bacon, the wonderful philosopher of Oxford，who lived between the years 1214 and 1292. He was probably the first in the Middle Ages to _______ that we should learn science by observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself _______ many important truths.

Galileo(1564－1642), however，who lived more than 300 years later, was the greatest of several great men in Italy, France, Germany, and England, _______ began to show how many important truths could be discovered by observation by degrees. Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fell more _______   towards the earth than small ones, _______ Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two   ________   stones and proved Aristotle was wrong. It is Galileo's   ________   of going direct to nature, and proving our opinions and theories by experiment, that has   ________   all the discoveries of modern science.

What   ________   those people good scientists？From the example of Galileo, we know     ________   that successful scientists are those whose observations have   ________   better results.

【推荐3】My grandmother was always encouraging me to set goals and work hard to achieve them. She would tell me not to be a follower and not to set___________on what I could achieve. She_________ believed that there were not limits and that you could___________whatever you wanted.

I would never forget the following story that she once told me:

A farmer won first___________at the country fair for his huge radish(小萝卜)that was the exact shape and ___________ of a milk bottle.

Many were ___________ as to how the farmer was able to grow this radish that was the exact shape of a milk bottle.

___________one gentleman went up to the farmer and asked the question.The farmer replied, “It was___________.I got the seed growing and then I put it into the milk bottle.It had_________ else to go.”

You can use this story as an analogy(比喻)to life---our lives are____________by the kind of surroundings we place ourselves in, the people that we allow to______________us, and the goals we give ourselves.

If we only____________and take no action, then we get to no further.But if we______________,set a goal and take action, then our life takes a____________shape.

Goals and actions can help us accomplish more in a year than what some people will accomplish in a lifetime.To prove this______________, rad the biographies of______________people and you will see that goals and actions______________played a big role in their success.

Remember the____________of Mary Kay Ash, who said, “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do.You can go____________your mind lets you.Whatever you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

In summary, don’t put yourself in a bottle, in other words, move out of what is____________and secure if you want to move forward.