【推荐1】Do you admire successful people? Do you think they had their success easily? As “Father of Hybrid Rice”, Yuan Longping got over great difficulties and spent his whole life working to reduce world hunger and helping to feed the country with the largest population.

Wu Mengchao, the “Father of Chinese Hepatobiliary Surgery”, focused on saving people’s lives for nearly eighty years. He performed more than 16,000 operations (手术) during his life. Holding the knife for such a long time deformed his fingers. Wu once said, “It would be my greatest happiness if I could work at the operating table until my dying day.”

In 1969, in order to solve the problem of treating malaria (疟疾), Tu Youyou, a pharmacologist (药学家) took on the job as head of a research team. She and her teammates performed different kinds of experiments. However, the results were disappointing. Instead of giving up, in 1972, they made it! In 2015, she received Nobel Prize.

Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, believed that every failure was a step towards success. He once said, “If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong try is another step forward.”

Sometimes, their success was a surprise, even to themselves. The famous scientist Alexander Fleming said, “I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize (变革) all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic (抗生素). But I guess that was exactly what I did.”

Some people only became successful after their deaths. Not like Pablo Picasso who became famous and very rich during his lifetime, the artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting all through his life and that was to a friend. But he kept painting and he painted more than 2, 000 artworks in the following ten years. Now his paintings are very popular and they sell for millions of pounds.

One thing all these people have in common is sticking to their goals no matter what.

1. What do Yuan Longping and Wu Mengchao have in common?

A．They succeeded in solving world problems.

B．They achieved a lot in the medical field.

C．They spent all their lives serving people.

D．They are remembered for their happiness.

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Pablo Picasso became famous after his death.

B．Vincent Van Gogh painted 2, 001 artworks in his life.

C．Thomas Edison tried 10, 000 ways before he invented the light bulb.

D．It took Tu Youyou’s team about 3 years to reach their goal.

3. How did Alexander Fleming feel about his discovery of the first antibiotic?

A．He didn’t fully realize its importance.	B．He didn’t plan to study all medicine.
C．He knew exactly what his success meant.	D．He felt too tired to stay awake.

4. What does the writer mainly want to tell us?

A．Not everyone can be successful.

B．Great achievements aren’t made naturally.

C．The more difficulties, the better.

D．Great hopes make great men.

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In our life, there are always some people complaining (抱怨) they are too old to do something. But we should know that it’s never too late to start to do whatever you want to do in life.

Your future is like a piece of clean paper. You think you’ve lived a 10/100 life so far.     1     In fact, it is not a fact but a decision. Whatever you want to improve, you can start to do it. It could take a lot of time, but it’s worth it. Then you can have a completely different opinion.     2     These people have basically (基本上) agreed the fact that things will always be better if they work harder.     3     Changing your small habits and being with the changes are the keys to growing as a person and getting to where you want to go. I don’t know you.     4     But I know that whatever your goals are, you can take the first step towards them if you want to.

I’ve always believed there are two kinds of person-the person they are now, and the person they could become if they work hard with what they have.     5     And in the end, you will find that you have far more potential (潜力) than you actually think.

A．I don’t know your goals.

B．That’s what changes your habits.

C．How do you achieve your dream?

D．I see so many people work harder instead of giving up.

E．So imagine the best you can achieve with what you have.

F．But you can put 100/100 effort in going forward and see a huge difference.