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　　More than 40 years ago, John Williams gave away all of his belongings and went off to the mountains to live the way people lived 100 years ago．For 　　1　　 he traps wild animals and fishes in the rivers－　　2　　 he can．John lives in a cabin he made 　　3　　, out of trees he chopped down with an axe．　　4　　 he has no relatives that he knows of, he does have a deer he 　　5　　 from a fawn(幼鹿)．The deer lives in the house in winter and goes with John when he goes into the 　　6　　 for food．Nobody lives 　　7　　 fifty miles of his cabin in the mountains and John has not been out of the mountains during the entire forty years．One day last year I hiked in to see 　　8　　 John lives in．It was like going 　　9　　．There were no stores, no post offices, no noise, no pollution, not 　　10　　 a road．

　　　　11　　 notable(值得注意的)of all, there were no people and that's the 　　12　　 John Williams wants to keep his part of the world．But there seems to be something impossible in his story．He is an 　　13　　 man．He has books and nobody knows how he got them．Mostly he reads about his 　　14　　－the mountains, the animals, the plants, and the 　　15　　．He has seen airplanes flying overhead but does not want to 　　16　　 about them．For him, electricity is no more than lightning, not light bulbs, refrigerators, televisions, or washing machines．John is 90 years old and has not has a 　　17　　 day in his life．He owes his 　　18　　 life to the fact that he has nothing to do with people and in order to let him 　　19　　 many more years of health, happiness and solitude(孤独), I will not tell you 　　20　　 his kingdom lies．There is no room there for you or me．

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　　Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time．If you see the world with your warm heart, you’ll find that the whole world smiles to you．

　　While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?

　　One day it is fine．Just before you go out, it suddenly starts to rain．Maybe you would feel very sad and start to complain about the weather．But friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concerts that the nature offers you? And with the timely(及时地)rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest．

　　Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t be avoided．I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope．When we face failure, we must be confident(信心)in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do．As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success”．

　　Attitude(态度)decides everything．With an optimistic(乐观)attitude life is easy and pleasant．Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us．

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　　What is the nature of the scientific attitude, the attitude of the man or woman who studies and applies physics, biology, chemistry, geology, engineering, medicine or any other science?

　　We all know that science plays an important role in our societies．However, many people believe that our progress depends on two different aspects of science．The first aspect is the application of the machines, products and systems of knowledge that scientists and technologists develop．The second is the application of the special methods of thought and action　that scientists use in their work．

　　What are these special methods of thinking and acting? First of all, it seems that a successful scientist is curious-he wants to find out how and why the universe works．He usually pays attention to problems which he notices have no satisfying explanation, and looks for relationships even if the data available seem to be unconnected．Moreover, he thinks he can improve the existing conditions and enjoys trying to solve the problems which this involves．

　　He is a good observer, accurate, patient and objective(客观的)and uses the facts he observes to the fullest．For example, trained observers obtain a very large amount of information about a star mainly from the accurate analysis of the simple lines that appear in a spectrum(光谱)．

　　He does not accept statements which are not based on the most complete evidence available．He rejects authority as the only basis for truth．Scientists always check statements and make experiments carefully and objectively．

　　Furthermore,　he does not readily accept his own idea, since he knows that man is the least reliable of scientific instruments and that a number of factors tend to disturb objective investigation．

　　Lastly,　he is full of imagination　since he often has to look for relationships in data which are not only complex but also frequently incomplete．Furthermore,　he needs imagination　if he wants to guess how processes work and how events take place．

　　These seem to be some of the ways in which a successful scientist or technologist thinks and acts．

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　　Erik Weihenmayer wants to climb Mount Everest．He loves to climb, and there is no place greater for climbers than the peak of 29 035 feet, the world’s highest mountain．

　　Weihenmayer is blind．He has been blind since age 13, when an eye disease robbed him of his sight．In his new book, Touch the Top of the World, he describes his blindness and climbing．He is the first blind man to attempt Everest．The team reached the base camp at 17 800 feet last Wednesday and began its climb Saturday．If all goes well, Weihenmayer will reach the top on about May 15．

　　“I’m not just some broken blind guy,” Weihenmayer, aged 32, said for hours before he left Los Angeles on Friday for Katmandu, Nepal．“I put my life in my fellow climbers’ hands, and they put their lives in my hands．It’s an honor to reach that state．”

　　“I want to experience the scene of adventure．Blindness has nothing to do with that．But a message of the climb is that a blind person can join a team and climb the highest mountain in the world．”

　　Weihenmayer has climbed the highest peaks on four continents：North America’s Mount McKinley, South America’s Aconcagua, Africa’s Kilimanjaro and Antarctica’s Vinson Massif．He is an expert rock and ice climber, having scaled EL Captain in Yosemite National Park．When he was 16, he attended a school that taught blind people to be independent．One day, a group went rock-climbing．“I really liked it,” Weihenmayer said, “You can solve problems．It is sense in your inner mind．People didn’t think blind people could go out and become expert rock climbers．”