Yuan Longping,    1    is one of China's most famous scientists, considers himself as a farmer. Yuan Longping grows    2    is called super hybrid rice. In 1973, he became the first    3    (agriculture) pioneer in the world    4    (grow) rice that has a high output. This special strain of rice make    5    possible to produce 20% more of the crop in    6    same fields.

    7    (bear) in 1930, Yuan Longping graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then he has devoted his life to     8    (find) ways to grow more rice. Thanks    9    his research, farmers are producing harvests' twice    10    large as before.

Water had also appeared on other planets like Mars but    1    the earth, it had disappeared later. It was not immediately obvious that water was to be    2    to the development of life.

That afternoon aboard the train, the cousins    3    in their seats. Earlier that day, when they crossed the Rocky Mountains, they managed to    4    some mountain goats and even a grizzly bear and an eagle.

For forty years Jane Good all has been    5    about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She has argued that wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for    6    or advertisements.

Dr Yuan is quite    7    his life! However, he doesn't care about being famous. He feels it gives him less    8    to do his research. He would much rather keep time for his hobbies.

Then he    9    the lace of the shoe and eats it as if it were spaghetti. He eats each mouthful    10    .The acting is so convincing that it makes you believe that it is one of the best meals he has ever tasted.

The theme park you are probably most familiar     1     is Disneyland. It can     2     in several parts of the world. It will bring you into     3     magical world and make your dreams come true,     4     you are travelling through space, visiting a pirate ship or meeting your favourite fairy tale or Disney cartoon character.

Not that Charlie’s own life was     1    ! I He was born in a poor family in 1889. His parents were both poor music hall     2    . You may find     3     astonishing that Charlie was taught to sing as soon as she could speak.

She spent years     1     and recording their daily activities. Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment.     2     ,this was not easy. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman     3     in the forest.

9 . You asked whether I’m getting to know any local people . Well , that’s     1     quite difficult as I don’t speak much of the local English dialect yet . But last weekend another teacher, Jenny and I did visit a village which is the home of one of the boys , Tombe . It was my first visit to a     2     village. We walked for two and a half hours to get there – first up a mountain to a   ridge from where we had     3     views and then down a steep path to the valley below. When we arrived at the village , Tombe’s mother, kiak, who had been pulling     4     in her garden, started crying “ieee ieee”. We     5     hands with all the villagers. Everyone seemed to be a relative of Tombe’s.

10 . My life is a lot easier at high school because my     1     students have accepted me. The few who cannot see the real person inside my body do not make me     2    .

I have a very busy life with no time to    3     feeling sorry for myself.     4     going to the movies and football matches with my friend, I spend a lot of time with my pets. I have two rabbits, a parrot, a tank full of fish and a tortoise. To look after my pets     5     takes a lot of time but I find it worthwhile. I also have to do a lot of work, especially if I have been away for a while.