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One day, the old man was seriously ill in bed, but he didn't {#blank#}3{#/blank#} his pictures. He said to his grandson, Alan, “I want to give my pictures to a school, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the students will remember me. But which school do you think is the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} , my child?”
“Well,” said the little boy. “You'd better give them to a school for the blind!”

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    Carla thinks it's important to get school things{#blank#}4{#/blank#}．She seldom leaves them at home．But now,she is looking{#blank#}5{#/blank#}her mobile phone．

    Imagine the scene, you are twenty - one years old, and you are having a promising future. Now you are living in the university {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, but today, you have to leave the school and sit in your wheelchair all your life. If that happened to you, what should you do? Maybe, some people will be {#blank#}2{#/blank#} and they have no confidence to face the situation. But Hawking lived an active life. In his life, he didn't give up his dream and continued to{#blank#}3{#/blank#} his research. He was one of the most famous {#blank#}4{#/blank#} in the world and made great success.

    Having ALS(渐冻人症), Hawking had to "walk" in his wheelchair, but he got his degree. He wanted to have a happy life and devote (奉献) himself to his research. He continued his research of the universe and travelled {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the world to made speeches. In 2002, Hawking visited China and spoke to university students in China. He told the students about his thoughts on some of the greatest {#blank#}6{#/blank#} .Hawking{#blank#}7{#/blank#} famous in the early 1970s, when he and his American friend made new discoveries about the Big. Bang and black holes. In 1988, he wrote A Brief History of Time, which quickly became a best - seller. Readers are pleased and {#blank#}8{#/blank#} to find that a scientist could write about his work in a way that ordinary people could understand.

    In the book, Hawking said science work is never finished, and even the best thought {#blank#}9{#/blank#}  turn out to be wrong. We should learn{#blank#}10{#/blank#}Hawking.