What is your attitude(态度) towards making mistakes? What have you learned from some of your past mistakes?

Albert Einstein was one of the greatest minds of the last century. During his lifetime, Einstein t     1     about the universe and solved many problems in physics. Einstein is most f    2     for his Theory of Relativity(相对论).

Einstein’s early years

Einstein was b    3     in Germany in 1879. After he finished school, he went on to study physics in Switzerland. In 1905, Einstein began to write articles and became a pioneer in the f    4     of modern physics. For one of those articles, he received the Nobel Prize in 1921.

Einstein, the t    5    

Einstein taught at universities in Switzerland and Germany. He left Germany in 1933 and went to teach a    6     Princeton University in the United States.

Einstein died in 1955. He signed his last letter b    7     he passed away(去世).The letter asked people to give u    8     nuclear weapons(核武器).

Einstein’s sayings

“The important thing is not to stop q    9    .”

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion(结论) is false. The h    10     time I am right.”

Parents, especially those of teenagers, care about their children’s education more than anything     1     (别的). They would do everything for their children. Many of them spend most of their     2     (多余的) time helping their children with studies. If they have no time or can’t do it themselves, they would hire family teachers or     3     (送) their children to after-class schools. It seems as if a better education is all that parents       4     (期待) for children.

How can we explain the present situation? First of all, many parents have     5     (意识到) that future success     6     (取决于) more and more on skills and education. Secondly, in a competitive (竞争的)     7     (社会) there are both losers and     8     (胜利者). Those who have better skills and more knowledge will enjoy more opportunities.

Certainly, it is     9     (重要的) to learn to succeed, but the first thing to learn is how to survive (生存), how to be a qualified citizen (合格的公民). If this is     10     (包括) in good education, the children will surely have a bright future and be healthy in body and mind.

3 . For thousands of years, poetry (诗) has been the favorite type of literature (文学) in China. There were many famous poets from different periods of time in Chinese     1    , and most of their poems     2     still read and appreciated today.

To remind people     3     those classic Chinese poems, CCTV has produced a TV     4     called Chinese Poetry Competition. The final of the show’s second season was shown in February. A girl     5     Wu Yishu who studies at the High School Affiliated to Fudan University, came out to be the winner of the     6    . She recited lines from the Classic of Poetry (《诗经》): “In July, the crickets (蟋蟀) are in the field; In    7    , they are in the yard; In September, they are at the door; In October, the crickets enter and crawl under our beds.” “I really admire     8     knowledge of poems. The first time I saw her       9     traditional Han clothing on TV, I was very impressed by her classical looks. She always keeps so calm through the show, which is very     10     for her age.” said Huang Zijin after watching the final show.

Mr. Huang also said we would find Chinese cultured and taste the beauty of life by enjoying poems.