From an early age, Parker always said that he would be an astronaut. But no matter {#blank#}1{#/blank#} much he studied, worked, and took tests, he never passed. Finally, he {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(grow) over the maximum(最高的) age for taking the test. He would never be able to realize his dream.

    People {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(feel)sorry for his dream. Although he {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(tell) about having to give up his dream, Parker continued training and studying, as though he was going to sit the tests next month.

    He carried this on as he got {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(old), and when he was a very old man he heard that they were doing some very important medical experiments. For those experiments they needed {#blank#}6{#/blank#}very old astronaut. Parker, who now walked with a stick, was the only old man in the whole world who was trained to fly in a rocket.

    So Parker found {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(he) flying in space at last. The experiments were very {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (succeed). The knowledge from the experiments helped doctors to cure one of the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (bad)sicknesses for old people, and Parker was celebrated as a hero. Photos of the astronaut with a walking stick and no {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(tooth) spread all over the world. It showed that persistent effort always brings reward, even though that reward may not be in the form we had first expected.

    Tiantian meets Lingling at the bus station in front {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the library. They are good friends, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} they are not in the same school now.

    "{#blank#}3{#/blank#}is your new school like, Lingling?" Tiantian asks.

    "It's big and modern(现代的)," Lingling says." "What{#blank#}4{#/blank#}your school?"

    "It's not modern. The{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(building) in my school are old, but our teachers are very good," Tiantian says. "Is{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (you) school far from your home?"

    "Yes, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}is." Lingling says. But my father is {#blank#}8{#/blank#}driver. He sends(送){#blank#}9{#/blank#}(I) to school every morning."

    "How lucky(幸运的)you {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(be)!" Tiantian says to Lingling.

    Wang Yaping is a Chinese spacewoman. She has made history {#blank#}1{#/blank#} she was thirty-three years old--she has been China's {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(one)teacher in space.

    Wang {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (teach) Chinese primary and middle school students on Earth physics phenomena(现象)in space. She prepared {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(good) for the lecture and expressed full confidence about the lesson.

    Meeting the media, she said, "We are all students facing the space. We are looking forward to {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (encourage)our young friends to learn and research the mystical and beautiful space."

    Wang was born {#blank#}6{#/blank#}January 1980. She is from east China's Shandong Province. She was a pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force with experience of 1,600 {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (hour) of flying.

    Wang has served the People's Liberation Army {#blank#}8{#/blank#} August 1997. In May 2010, Wang became {#blank#}9{#/blank#}member of the second batch of Chinese astronauts. Wang was chosen to be the member of the Shenzhou-10 space group in April 2013. She was China's second woman astronaut who was sent into space after Liu Yang who flew with the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft.

    {#blank#}10{#/blank#}great Wang Yaping is!

—It's me. The photo ____ fourteen years ago.