Maybe you have heard of Peter Dinklage from the role he played in Game of Thrones. But few know his story behind the role. His life shows that a little body can have great ________.

Peter is different from other children. The boy was born with dwarfism (侏儒症). As a result, his legs and arms stopped ________ in his early age. But his head became bigger and bigger.

Peter’s look brought some problems to him at first. Many children ________ him at school. He had no friends here. He felt ________ but he didn’t look down upon (看不起) himself. ________ he was in the sixth grade, he played his first role in a school play. He was so happy during the play that he decided to become a (an) ________ in the future.

After leaving high school, Peter went to Bennington College and studied acting there. ________, he met some great teachers and friends there. They helped him ________ his special look into advantages (优势). Since then, he has acted in lots of famous films and TV plays. Peter once said, “Everyone is ________. Every person has different life stories. They can solve problems in different ways. My ________ doesn’t define (定义) me. It’s just a part of me.”

Who is the most famous artist in the world? ________ not Leonardo do Vinci, maybe it was Pablo Picasso. Picasso (1881-1973) was one of the most famous artists in the 20th century. He had a talent（天赋）for drawing. Born in Spain, Picasso ________ his talent when he was young. He first learned ________ from his father, who was an art teacher. At the age of 13, he could already draw ________ than his father, he could draw and paint just about ________ and in any style. He liked to think of new ideas by ________. This made him special.

People put his life and art into different ________. One of his most famous periods was his cubist （立体艺术派的）period. Cubism is when an artist paints things ________ a bottle from many different angles（角度）in the same picture. ________ you can see the front, the back and the sides of the bottle at the same time. In a way, it’s a little like having X-ray eyes.

This new way of painting surprised the art world in the 20th century. People say Picasso helped us ________ the world in new way.

【推荐3】Huang Yongyu was born in Changde, Hunan, and he died in 2023. As a great artist, he has made a big influence ________ the art of China.

Born in 1924, he had ________ unusual life. Different from other professional painters, Huang studied by ________, and started with woodcarving (木刻). For a better future of his career (事业), he went to Hong Kong with his wife and ________ all day in woodcarving. When he became famous, his uncle Shen Congwen advised him ________ to Beijing and teach woodcarving in the college. Finally, he accepted his uncle’s advice and came back with his wife and baby, a 7-month boy. Their life there was so ________, because they fed many animals as pets, like monkeys, bears and turkeys.

________ he met hundreds of problems, he was still happy and smiled at life. In 2006, Huang Yongyu donated (捐赠) a personal art museum in Jishou University for free. Almost 200 pieces of works and collections from him ________ there. Of course, one of the most famous ________ of Huang’s, Shangui, is in the museum. He wrote in a poem, “My type of blood is O, which fits everyone; my heart, only my heart, dear hometown, it’s yours…”

What’s more, Huang Yongyu was still planning a new painting at the age of 99. ________ painting!