Although most people believe that formal schooling is required for scientific success, a college degree is not always necessary. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}excellent example of a man who won fame as a scientist {#blank#}2{#/blank#}academic(学术的) training is Vincent J. Schaefer. His formal education ended {#blank#}3{#/blank#} two years of high school when he had to go to work in an untrained job at General Electric. Because {#blank#}4{#/blank#} his inventive mind and his skill as a model maker, he was soon allowed to try his own experiments in the company laboratory. His natural {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(curious) made him wonder about clouds. He developed, after many tries, a method of making clouds rain {#blank#}6{#/blank#}they would not normally do so. This method, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(call) seeding, has been very {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(help) to farmers, and {#blank#}9{#/blank#}made him win much fame.

    Schaefer believes that for people{#blank#}10{#/blank#}, most of all, are interested in the world and everything in it, a college degree is unnecessary.

    Everyone has a childhood and childhood experiences are often very{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(interest).Children often make us laugh.

    I often remember my childhood,the years{#blank#}2{#/blank#}many funny things happened.When I was two-year-old child,both my parents were always very busy{#blank#}3{#/blank#}their work.My mother worked as{#blank#}4{#/blank#}sales manager in a company while my father served in the army.So I{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(live) with my grandma in a village.I was always waiting for my parents at home. Once my father sent{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(we) a photo of his in soldier's uniform,which{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(post) on the table reminding me of him.

    Once my mother came to see me and we were{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(go) to the downtown together.On the way we saw a group of{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(soldier).And when I saw them,I became very excited.I shouted in a loud voice,"This is my father,that one is my father,and he is my father,too..."

    {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (hear) this,my mother laughed and said she would remember that moment all her life.

    It happened at a weekend in the 1970's. Mum gave me two tickets for a film, telling me she was too busy to go together with me with the {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(end)housework. She told me to keep the money if I could sell the extra ticket. I was very happy. At that time, a ticket cost only 20 fen. But to me, a little girl of twelve, 20 fen seemed quite a lot.

    I reached the cinema {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(hurry). Holding the ticket in my hand, I began to look for a buyer. Just then a handsome young man, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} noticed me and the ticket, came towards me with a big smile, "You've got {#blank#}4{#/blank#} extra ticket？"

    "Yes, "I nodded.

    "That's great. Say how much？"

    "20 fen."

    "Oh, " he thought for a while and then took out a ten yuan note {#blank#}5{#/blank#} his wallet.

    "I'm terribly sorry, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} I've only got this note." Seeing I was confused, he added, "Then how about waiting for a while {#blank#}7{#/blank#} I have changed it in the cinema's store？"

    Without much thinking, I agreed. Then we went to the cinema together. He walked very fast. I could hardly keep up with {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. Soon he disappeared. I stood there {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(puzzle). Suddenly I realized the handsome young fellow {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (cheat) me."

    Before long I found that he'd sold the ticket to a little boy. He earned 20 fen, but lost his honor!

    Hotel guests in China might no {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(long) have to worry about waiting in line to check in. At the Alibaba's futuristic hotels, guests can scan their IDs, take a photo and input personal details using a machine to check {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(they) in. The smart equipment will then provide a room key card after the information {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(check). The process will take less than a minute, according to company. Targeting only Chinese customers for now, the new service will be {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(gradual) expanded globally. The rapid growth of mobile usage and mobile payment adoption can show {#blank#}5{#/blank#} convenient people's life, is becoming in China.

    Alibaba isn't the only company {#blank#}6{#/blank#} introduces high-tech hotels. Smart LYZ, a Shenzhen-based company which focused {#blank#}7{#/blank#} developing AI technology and smart hotels, opened the first ever fully automated (自动化) hotel in Chengdu, Sichuan, back in January. {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(travel) can book a room through Smart LYZ's WeChat website, check in through a facial recognition machine, unlock the door with a {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(give) passcode or through its mobile app and finally, check out by pressing a button on the app. The AI Smart Room will undoubtedly be extremely attractive for guests, {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(create) the way for a new level of modernization and consumers' satisfaction.

    When Mr. Wang, a Chinese calligraphy(书法)master and painter, invited me to his studio, I got extremely{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (delight) . What a treat!

    His apartment doubles as his studio, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} he creates calligraphy works and paintings as well. The living room has a long desk with a collection of{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (brush) of varying sizes, two big ink pots and a pair of paper weights.

    Mr. Wang showed his latest work, a scroll(卷轴)of the Great Wall at Badaling {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (wind) its way along the steep hills, which {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (recognize) as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations in 1987. The beauty of the seven-meter-long scroll painting was beyond {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (describe).

    He told me someone had offered a large amount of money for the painting, but he refused {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(part) with it as he wanted to donate to the National Museum.

After that, Mr. Wang invited me to practice calligraphy, and it was the first time that I had {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(true) experienced the beauty of the line. It was then{#blank#}9{#/blank#} I noticed Mr. Wang appeared to have a healthy body. I wondered if practicing calligraphy kept him so fit. Whether that is true, one thing is certain; as Mr. Wang put{#blank#}10{#/blank#}, "Only do one thing and do it well—that's the secret to success"