—You may learn art since you have a gift {#blank#}1{#/blank#} painting and drawing.

    Sun Yat-sen,{#blank#}1{#/blank#} was the leader of the 1911 Revolution, first suggested the idea of a dam across the Yangtze River in 1919. Three quarters of China's energy {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (produce) by burning coal. In 1993, China used 1.2 billion tons of coal for heating and generating{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(electric).{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (fortunate), burning coal causes serious air pollution and increases global warming. The dam will generate electricity equal{#blank#}5{#/blank#} about 40 million tons of coal without causing so much air pollution.

    I'd like to talk about color-blindness. If your clothes don't match, someone might laugh {#blank#}1{#/blank#} your being “color-blind”. But some people are really color-blind. It doesn't mean that they can't see any color at all, like a black and white movie. It means that they have trouble {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(see) the difference between certain colors.

    Being color-blind can make it hard {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(match) your coat and trousers, but it's not a serious problem. People {#blank#}4{#/blank#} are color-blind can do normal things, even driving. Most color-blind people can't tell the difference between red and green, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} they can learn to respond to the way the traffic signal changes. The red light is {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(general) on the top of the signal and the green one at the bottom.

    People {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(test) for color-blindness through pictures made up of different colored dots (小圆点). If a person can't recognize the {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(number) in the pictures, he or she may be color-blind. Boys are far more likely to have this problem. In fact, among 12 boys, one of {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(they) is probably at least a little color-blind. So girls, next time a boy asks you if two colors match, you'd better lend him {#blank#}10{#/blank#} hand!

    On arriving in the United States, I felt everything was different. There were many new things I had to adapt to. One thing that really {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(take) me a long time to adapt to was speaking the language.

    I remember {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(clear) that I had to struggle to learn English because I couldn't even write a short paragraph to introduce myself at the first day of my English class. The teacher asked me {#blank#}3{#/blank#}it was difficult for me. If it was, I could change to level one!

    However, I was stubborn and swore that I was going to succeed. I started to spend many {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(hour)per day, even though it was stressful, because I wanted to take advantage {#blank#}5{#/blank#}this special chance to study English in the USA.

    I felt depressed because I couldn't understand {#blank#}6{#/blank#}people were saying even though I made great efforts. However, I still kept {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(try) and never gave up.

Now, I can tell you that I have improved a lot, but sometimes it is still easy for me to get{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(confuse) if I don't know what topic people {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(talk) about. To adapt to this new language, I had to tell {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(I) that I could do it. I really believe I can!

    No one thought that young Albert Einstein would grow up to change the world. He was so slow in learning to speak that he was considered a bit {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(fool).

    Albert Einstein was never happy in school. He answered slowly because he was very thoughtful, and he asked difficult questions, which made {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(he) teachers think that he was trying {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(make) trouble. The strict discipline(纪律)of a German school made him very unhappy.

    However, young Einstein {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(do) learn what interested him, and he was interested in what lay below the surface of  {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(thing). For instance, his father once gave him a compass(指南针). This made Albert curious {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the unseen forces that could keep a compass needle always pointing north. In his teens he read deep in science. He had already started to wonder about the mysteries of {#blank#}7{#/blank#} universe.

    At 17, Einstein entered the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} he studied mathematics and physics. He stayed away from many lectures and did not impress his professors, but he was {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(actual) studying very hard all the time. When he graduated in 1900, he asked to be appointed as an assistant in the physics department but {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(refuse).