Horatio Spafford, who was born in 1828, was a wealthy Chicago lawyer with a promising career, a beautiful home, a wife, four daughters and a son.

    At the very height of his financial and professional success Horatio and his wife, Anna, suffered the loss of their young son. Shortly thereafter, on October 8, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed most of his real estate(地产) Investment.

    In 1873, Spafford planned a boat trip to Europe in order to give his wife and daughters a much-needed vacation and time to recover from the loss of their young son. Spafford sent his wife and daughters ahead of him while he remained in Chicago to take care of some small business. Several days later he received notice that his family's ship had had a collision (碰撞). All four of his daughters had drowned, only his wife had survived.

    With a heavy heart, Spafford boarded a boat that would take him to his broken-hearted Anna in England. It was on this trip that he wrote those now famous words: When sorrows like sea billows roll, it is well, it is well with my soul.

    Philip Bliss (1838-1876), composer of many songs, including Hold the Fort, Let the Lower Lights be Buming, and Jesus Loves Even Me, was so impressed with Spafford's life and the words of his hymn (赞美) that be composed a beautiful piece of music to accompany the poem. The song was published by Bliss and Sankey in 1876.

    For more than a century, the tragic story of one man has given hope to countless people.

    Yu Min is a famous Chinese nuclear physicist. He was born in Tianjin in 1926. When he was in high school, he was an excellent student. Later, he studied in Peking University.

    In 1951, he became a researcher and began to study nuclear physics. In 1965, he started to work at the 9^th Research Institute. He solved a lot of problems of the hydrogen bomb. His research helped China test the first hydrogen bomb successfully in 1967, just three years after China's first successful atomic bomb test. Since the 1970s, Yu Min has been a pioneer of many research projects. However, his name remained the top secret of China until 1988. ______.

    Yu Min is called "the father of China's hydrogen bomb". "Whenever the nation needs me, I'll do my best," Yu Min says. Because of his hard work, Yu Min has won the National Scientific

    Progress Prize three times. He became a national labor model. He got the Guanghua Special Prize in 1992. In January, 2015, he received the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award for 2014 from Chinese President Xi Jinping. The award itself includes a prize of five million yuan. He used almost 4.5 million yuan for the future scientific research.

    Michelle, a famous lady, has found that more than 25% students are too fat in her country. It is a very serious problem. So she starts a health program to deal with it. The health program is to reduce the amount(数量)of fat students today and in the future.

    The program will get families, schools, newspapers, magazines and TVs to join together and deal with the students' obesity so that students will be at a healthier weight. The program includes: food stores should sell healthier food: schools should serve healthier meals with less fat and should also offer gym classes.

    The lady is trying to fight the students' obesity all over the country because it can cause illnesses and higher health cost. She wants the students to eat right, exercise more and control their weight. She also wants the students to understand it is important to have less sweet food, and drink water, milk and fresh juices, but not to choose cokes. At the same time, she has also set a good example by planting a vegetable garden. She hopes that the garden will encourage more people to plant one, too.

    The health program is really helpful to the students today and in the future. As she says, we cannot always build the future for youth, but we can build our youth for the future.