【推荐1】At the age of 16, Einstein failed in several exams because he often played with some bad kids. One weekend morning, Einstein carried a fishing net and prepared to go fishing with those ______. His father stopped him and said to him calmly, “Einstein, you were spending too much time ______, so you failed in the exams. I’m ______ about your future with your mother.”

“What are you worrying about? Jack and Robert also ______ in the exams, but they went fishing as usual.”

“My boy, you can’t think so,” Looking at Einstein. his father said lovingly, “There is a ______ in our hometown. I hope you can listen to it carefully.”

“There were two cats playing on the roof. ______, they fell into the chimney. When they climbed out of the chimney, one cat’s face was dirty ______ the other’s was clean. Seeing the dirty-faced cat, the clean-faced one thought its own face was also dirty, so it quickly ran to the riverside and washed its ______. The dirty-faced cat saw the clean-faced one, thinking its own face was clean as well, so it still walked happily in the street.”

“Einstein, ______ can be your mirror. Only you are your own mirror. Some of the kids are not strict with themselves. If you take them to be your mirror, even a ______ person may become stupid.” Hearing this, Einstein’s face turned red. He put down his fishing net and returned to his small room.

After that, Einstein often took himself as a mirror to be ______ with himself, and kept telling himself,” I am special, so I needn’t be as common as others.” This was why Einstein ______ in his career.

1,000 people have 1,000 kinds of wishes in life. Different wishes will produce different ______ about life. You can learn from other people, but you can ______ follow others completely.

You must see yourself clearly, and know what you want to get. Your future doesn’t ______ how others act, but on how you are going to act.

Tim Berners-Lee looks ordinary---he is about 45 years old and has brown hair. His life is quite normal---he was born in England, and lives in Massachusetts, USA now. But in 1989, Tim had a very _______ idea. He invented（创造）the World Wide Web (www)!

Tim went to school in London. His parents both _______ with computers, so it isn’t surprising that he loved computers from an early age. When he was eighteen, he left school and went to Oxford University, where he studied Physics. At Oxford，he became more and more _______computers and he made his first computers from an old television. He graduated（毕业） in 1976 and got a job in a computer company in Dorset, England. In 1989, he went to work in Switzerland, where he first had the _______of an international information network linked （连接） by computer and he _______ to call it the World Wide Web.

In 1995, he wrote an article in The New York Times and said “The Web is a Universe of information: it is for _______.” His idea of a web, where people from all over the world can exchange information, is now real.

【推荐3】Yuan Longping a Chinese scientist and educator, died at the age of 91 in Hunan last month. He was called the “Father of Hybrid Rice（杂交水稻）”and he helped ______ people around the world.

Yuan Longping was the first person to develop a kind of hybrid rice which helped fight ______ in China. Food was a big problem in China in the past. This was because China had 22 percent of the world’s population, but only 7 percent of its ______. In the 1960s, Chinese people had a difficult time. Millions of people died because they had no food. As an agronomy teacher, Yuan was very ______ to see this. “How can I help them have enough food?” he thought. He decided to work on a kind of hybrid rice. It has a high output（产量）.

At that time, other scientists didn’t think hybrid rice was worth ______. But Yuan and his team worked on it every day. They took very good care of their rice seeds.

At last, in 1973, they grew a new kind of hybrid rice. This rice is ______. Farmers can grow it in many different kinds of farmland and in bad ______. It can also fight disease. Its output was much ______ than common kinds of rice. With the new kind, about 70,000,000 people could have food every year!

Yuan solved the food problem in China. But he was ______ working on rice when he was very old. Before he retired, he hoped to grow rice in the sea!

Yuan once said he had two dreams—to “enjoy the ______ under the rice crops（庄稼）taller than men” and that hybrid rice could be grown all over the world to help solve the global food problem.