Stephen Hawking was a famous physicist. He was born in 1942. He died at his home on March 14th, 2018 in Cambridge, Britain.

Since he was 21 years old, Hawking had been b    1     ill, but he didn’t give up his hope of living. He went on to s    2     at Cambridge University after graduating from Oxford University, In 1965, he got a doctor’s degree (博士学位). Then he worked as a professor at Cambridge University.

Hawking was known tor his work with black holes. He also w    3     several popular science books. Although he didn’t live as freely as others, he still felt lie was happy and he was thankful to life. When Hawking was i    4     to China, he made speeches in some famous universities.

From Stephen Hawking’s w    5     life, we learn that no matter how bad life is, we should not lose hope. As he once said, “Life is not fair, you just have to do the best you can in your own situation.”

There was once a famous scientist. He made     1     [ˈsevrəl]   important discoveries. Once he was     2     ( ask) how he was able to be so creative. He replied that it all came from an experience he had with his mother when he was 2 years old. He was trying to take a bottle of milk out of the refrigerator. But the bottle was     3     slippery(滑的) for him that he dropped it. The kitchen floor was covered in milk.

When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of shouting at him or     4     (punish) him, she said, “Robert, what a great and wonderful mess you have made! I have never     5     [siːn] such a huge puddle of milk. Would you like to play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up?”

So he did. After a few minutes, they cleaned it up together. Then his mother     6     (courage) him and said, “This was a failed experiment(实验) in how to carry a big bottle of milk with your small     7    . Let’s go out in the backyard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can find an     8     [ˈeksələnt]   way to carry it without dropping it.”

The little boy learned that if he held the bottle at the top near the lip, he could carry it without dropping it.     9     a wonderful lesson!

It was at that moment that he knew he didn’t need to be afraid if he failed. He learned that failures are just     10     (good) opportunities (机会) to learn something new. Even if the experiment doesn’t “work”, we can still learn something valuable from it.