There was a dandelion (蒲公英) by the road. It was ______ and sorry —   no one ever stopped to take a look at it. One day a mother was walking on the road with ______ baby. The baby was crying. No matter (无论) what the mother did, she could not get the baby to stop crying. The mother looked down, and she ______ the dandelion. It looked lovely in the sun.

The mother ______ the dandelion, and she brought it up so that her son could see it. Her son ______ stopped crying, and he looked at it with interest. His mom, laughing now, put the dandelion near her ______ and blew. The dandelion seeds (种子) then flew in the air. She gave the dandelion to her son. He didn’t know what the plant was, but it made him so ______.

Now the dandelion didn’t feel upset. It lived a beautiful life just by being itself. It wasn’t as beautiful as other flowers, ______ it brought the child a simple kind of happiness that money can’t buy.

The dandelion’s ______ tells that everyone is special. We can ______ others in one way or another. We are far greater than we think we are.

A Peking University math teacher has been known (出名的) on the Internet recently. His name is Wei Dongyi. He got known because of a video. He doesn’t look different from others. But in math, he is more excellent than others.

Wei Dongyi was born in 1991 in Shandong. His father was a university math professor (教授) and kept many math books at home. As a child, Wei Dongyi’s favorite hobby was to read his father’s books. In his first year in primary school, he read a math book titled Loo-keng Hua’s School of Mathematics (《华罗庚数学学校》). When he solved (解决) the math problems, he felt excited. Then he began to be interested in math.

Although Wei is young, he has won math competitions in the world. He can solve so many math problems. And he can solve them in his own way easily.

Wei is talented (有才能的) and hard-working. He once studied 58 books for a competition. People think Wei Dongyi is similar to Chen Jingrun.