Watermelons are one of the most popular fruits in China. It’s said that Chinese people eat _________ 70% of the watermelons on the earth. As we enjoy the sweet watermelons, we have to thank a great woman named Wu Mingzhu. This 92-year-old _________ has devoted（致力）her life to growing melons in China.

Wu grew up in Wuhan. In the eyes of others, Wu should have worked as a teacher after finishing university in 1953, _________ she decided to go to Xinjiang. She thought Xinjiang was a good place for her to do _________ great. In 1955, Wu went to Xinjiang to study melons. _________ it was hard to live and work there at the time, she didn’t _________. She spent three years going around Xinjiang and found 44 kinds of melons.

In the 1990s, Wu and her team cultivated（培育）“8424”, a great kind of watermelon in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Then Wu _________ it to the north of China. Later, Wu went to more places to study melons.

_________ her, most places in China grow melons now. The yield（产量）is high and the price is naturally _________, so people can eat melons as they wish. Wu’s work has made a great difference __________ the growing of melons in China. “My life is to grow a few melons and give the sweetness of melons to people,” Wu always says.

Mr. Steen, headmaster of Greenwood School, is giving a speech.