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| Who designed (设计) the first helicopter (直升飞机)? Who 1 of the most famous pictures in the world? Who knew more about the human body than most 2 ? There is an answer 3 all. these questions -Leonardo de Vinci (达·芬奇). Leonardo may have been the greatest genius (天才) 4 have ever known. He lived in Italy around the year 1500, but many of his inventions seem modern to us today. For example, one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter. Of course, he couldn't 5 a helicopter with the things he had. But scientists say his idea would have worked. But Leonardo 6 an inventor. He was one of the greatest artists of his day. By the time he was twenty years old, he was called a master (大师) painter, and as he got older he became 7 more famous. Sometimes he drew a hand ten different ways 8 he was ready to paint. Many of Leonardo's wonderful paintings are still with 9 today. You may know one of his most famous works the 10 woman known as the Mona Lisa. | ||||
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| Norman Bethune is one of China's most famous heroes, but he wasn't Chinese-he was Canadian. He gave his life to helping Chinese people. Norman Bethune 1 born in 1890. He became a 2 in 1916, and he went to the front to look after injured soldiers in the First World War. He saw many soldiers die in the war. Later he invented new treatments to 3 soldiers, and medical tools to use outside hospitals. In 1938 he came to China to treat the Chinese soldiers in the mountains north of Yan'an. There were 4 doctors, so he had to work very hard. He opened hospitals to give treatment to local people and soldiers, and to train doctors and nurses. He also wrote books so that doctors can learn about new treatments. Dr Bethune worked very hard without stopping to 5 . Once, he performed operations 6 69 hours without stopping, and saved 112 people. He 7 working in spite of cutting his hand during an operation. In the end, he died because he did not take care of his 8 . Dr Bethune's work with the Chinese soldiers made 9 a hero in China. There are books and films about him, and he is 10 remembered in both Canada and China. | ||||
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| Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, France. He was a very small child. Unluckily, at the age of four, he became blind by accident. Louis began attending school in his town when he was seven years old. Three years later, Louis and his father traveled to Paris. There, he went to a school for blind children. One day a French soldier, Charles Barbier, visited the school. Barbier invented a system of night-reading. This system used small dots for the letters. Soldiers used this system in time of war. Barbier thought this system could help the blind to read. Soon Braille discovered that there were some shortcoming (缺点) in Barbier's system, but it gave Louis a brilliant idea. He improved Barbier's system. By the age of fifteen, his new system was completed! Now he wanted blind schools to try his system. Luck went against him again. The school refused to use his system. Louis died in 1852 in Paris at the age of forty-three. Two years after he died, the blind schools began to use his system. Today we call this system Braille in honour of Louis Braille. His system is used for all languages, and for maths, science, writing, music, and computers for the blind. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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