Do you know Garfield? He is a character of a comic strip. He first     1     in the comic strip on June 19, 1978. Garfield is famous for a cartoon. Lots of Garfield books have been turned into 26 languages. Garfield products are     2     in many countries.

Jim Davis is Garfield’s creator. Jim     3     born in 1945 in Indiana. He grew up on a farm. Jim and his brother Dave often     4     with the farm work. They had 25 cats.     5     room was always full of food for the cats.

As a boy, Jim was in poor health. When he had to spend time resting, he drew pictures. He added words to his pictures to     6     them funny.

In 1969, he got a job to help a cartoonist. Jim found that there were many comic     7     about dogs but few about cats. He couldn’t     8     it because there were so many cat lovers.

He remembered the 25 farm cats. They provided him with lots of ideas for a cat comic strip. In the comic strip, Garfield became the central character in everyday experiences with Jon. He is the laziest but the     9    .

Jim Davis has received many awards for his work. He was     10     the Best Humor Strip Cartoonist of the Year Award twice. He has won four Emmys (艾美奖) and other honors.

Li Shizhen was one of the     1     famous doctors in Chinese history. He was born in Qichun, Hubei in 1518.     2     of his father and grandfather were doctors. His grandfather was a country doctor who traveled in the countryside with a bag of herbs (草药) and cured people. His father was a doctor     3     wrote several books.

He used to     4     his father with his medical practice when he was young. His father wanted him to enter politics, but he didn’t. When he     5     38, he cured the son of the Prince of Chu and was invited to be an official in that court. A few years     6    , he became an official at the Imperial Medical Institute. Even though he fulfilled his     7     dream, he didn’t want to continue working for the court. One year later, he left the court and returned     8     be a doctor again.

Li Shizhen was famous for his book, Compendium of Materia Medical (《本草纲目》). He spent 27 years     9     the book. Unluckily he died before the book officially     10     out. It is such a successful book. Now it is still one of the most important medical books in China.