My favorite physicist (物理学家) is Qian Xuesen. He was born in Shanghai on December 11, 1911. He was a little fat and of medium height. And his eyes were wise. He liked music, art and science (科学).
He studied the important implementation (实施) plan for the Chinese rocket (火箭) and the missile (导弹). He worked very hard for our country. I liked him very much.
Qian Xuesen had famous words: I am very tiny (微小的). It is the Chinese people that are truly great!
Qian Xuesen died on October 31, 2009. I’m very sad to hear the news, and Chinese people are the same as me. He is our hero. We should learn from him and I think I won’t forget the great scientist for ever.
【小题1】Qian Xuesen died at the age of _______.

I didn't hear you because I     the news on the radio.

A. listen to    B. am listening to    C. listened to    D. was listening to

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Miracles（奇迹）will happen if you don't give up trying. Even if you have  1 for one hundred times, you may succeed when you try for the 10lst time.
When I was born, my doctor told my mother that there was something wrong with my 2  . They were too soft to be able to walk. Although the news was bad, my mother didn't become  3  . She didn't believe what the doctor said  4  started to look for other ways.
My mother kept looking for other doctors for me, and finally she  5  . The doctor and his team in the hospital did   6  they could to help me. They also asked my parents to teach me to do some  7  to help me walk. One day when my mother came to pick me  8  . I crawled towards her. She was so surprised and happy that she couldn't believe  9   eyes. Crawling was not walking, but it was a good 10  . Day by day, I could walk by myself.
When I grew up, my mother   11  told me these stories. She said that if I thought of what she said whenever I met  12 , I could do anything successfully. I have been working hard and I have turned out to be a very   13   person. I get best  14  in school and I am a good dancer and swimmer. 15   my mother's strong resolution, I live a happy life now. What the story tells us, as my mother always says, is: Never give up.

 阅读下面的短文，然后根据汉语或英语首字母提示写出所缺英语单词的正确形式。（共10个小题，每小题1分）

Dear grandma，

    How's it going? I hope that grandpa is well now, I was sorry to 1.h   that he had a cold last week I hope you are in good  2.h   .

    Things are fine here, I3. f   my end-of-year exams last week and got my report 4.c   today. I always get 5. 紧张  when I see me envelope from school in the mail. put luckily I did OK this time. I had a hard time with science this semester and I wasn't surprised to find that my worst report was from my science teacher She said I was 6. 懒惰. which isn't true it's just that I find science really difficult. 7. 另一个disappointing result was in history. My history teacher said I could do 8. 更好 The good news is that my 9.数学   teacher said I was hard-working. And my Spanish teacher said my listening was good

    Well, that's about all the news I have for now. Mom and I  10. D    send their love

                                                 Love

                                                     Alan