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    Li Yundi, the famous Chinese pianist, always loves music. He was born in 1982 in Chongqing. While still a small boy, he could play songs and difficult pieces of m. He began to learn the accordion at the aof four, and he started to learn the piano when he was seven. In October 2000, Li Yundi took part in the 14th Chopin IPiano Competition in Warsaw, Poland. He wthe first prize in his group. He was also the fChinese pianist in the 70-year history of the Chopin International Piano Competition to rsuch an honour.

    Henry Jackson is a reporter of a newspaper. I talked to him recently and have something interesting about him. Henry went to our school and is now a reporter for a national newspaper.  He to be a reporter when he was 14. He startedarticles for the school newspaper at the of 15. He became the editor(主编)of the paper when he was 17. He to university and wrote for the university newspaper. Then he got a Job with a small newspaper. about two years, he started working a National newspaper. He has worked for them for four now.

    Henry liked our school. He thinks that successful people know they want to do when they are quite young.

    My father was German, but he worked in England. He married my mother, who was English. Her family name was Robinson, so when I was born in 1632, in England, they called me Robinson, after her.

    My father did well in his business and I went to a good school. He wanted me to get a good job, and live a quiet, pleasant life. But I wanted adventure and an exciting life.

    "I want to be a sailor and go to sea", I told my mother and father. They were very unhappy about this.

    "Please don't go." My father said, "You won't be happy you know. Sailors have a difficult and dangerous life." Because I love him, and he was unhappy, I tried to forget about the sea.

    But I couldn't forget, and about a year later, I saw a friend in town. His father had a ship and my friend said to me, "We are sailing to London tomorrow. Why don't you come with us?"

    On September 1, 1651, I went to Hull and the next day we sailed for London.

But, a few days later, there was a strong wind. The sea was rough and dangerous, and the ship went up and down.

    I was very ill, and was very afraid.

    "Oh, I don't want to die!" I cried, "I want to live! If I live, I will go home and never go to sea again!" The next day the wind stopped, and the sea was quiet and beautiful again.

    Well, Robinson, my friend laughed, "How do you feel now? The wind wasn't too bad." "What!" I cried. "It was a terrible storm."

    "Oh, that wasn't a storm," my friend answered, "just a little wind. Forget it, come and have a drink."

    After a few drinks with my friend, I felt better. I forgot about the danger, and decided not to go home. I didn't want my friend and family to laugh at me!

I stayed in London for some time, but I still, wanted to go to the sea. So, when the captain of a ship ask me to go with him to Guinea in Africa, I agreed, so I went to the sea for the second time.

    It was a good ship, and everything went well at first, but I was very ill again. Then when we were near the Canary Islands, a Turkish pirate(海盗)ship came after us. They were famous thieves of the sea at that time. There was a long, hard fight, but when it finished, we and the ship were prisoners. The Turkish captain and his men took us to Sallee in Morocco. They wanted to sell us as slavesin the market. But in the end, the Turkish captain decided to keep me for himself, and took me home with him. This was a sudden and terrible change in my life. This Turkish captain was now my master.

Zhanglu is a translator (翻译官) in China. She is famous as a Chinese most beautiful translator. Zhanglu  (be) born in 1977, Shandong. Her mother worked in a hospital,  her father worked in a railway station. She was  (talent) in English when she was young. She still studied hard in English at school, her desk was always full of English (newspaper) and English books. When she was listening to BBC in the early morning, others were still  (sleep) in bed. She worked in the Ministry of foreign affairs（外交部）at the age twenty-three. Because she has learned more about Chinese culture, now she is able to tell Chinese stories  (simple) so that foreigners can know about Chinese better. She says if you want to learn English well and be  good translator, you should study hard and keep learning Chinese stories and beautiful articles, then you can tell  (interest) Chinese stories with foreigners, at the same time, improving your English.

We should learn English well like Zhanglu. Wherever we go, we will continue showing  (we) Chinese stories and making Chinese voice heard.

Billy Dengler a l4-year-old boy is in the eighth grade. A month after he was born. Billy's mother. Terri, noticed that his eyes weren't quite as big as a normal baby's. She took Billy to the hospital, and the doctor said Billy would never be able to see.

Although Billy can't see, he has never let that hold him back or make him different. Billy began teaching himself computer programming by using a screen reader when he was just seven years old. He is a certified Google developer (谷歌认证开发者) now. Google even tried to offer him a job last year when he discovered a problem in one of its systems, but Billy wasn't old enough.

Billy's dream school would be Stanford University or MIT, where he could get a very good education in computer science. After he leaves school, whether he will go to work at a company like Google or design a software company of his own is still to be decided. However. he says he will definitely (绝对地) do something great.

It's a sighted world." Billy said. "You can't let anything get in the way of your dreams, and if you do that you can't move forward and make your dreams come true."

Chloé Zhao got the best director at the 2021Golden Globes(金球奖) for "Nomadland" (无依之地).She became the Asian woman and only the second woman director to the prize in the Globes’78-year history. Nomadl and tells the of a woman who lost everything in her

sixties during the Great Depression(大萧条). The movie will be shown in China April 23. As Chloé Zhao's stepmother(继母), Ms. Song Dandan is so that she is proud of(为…骄傲)her daughter.

    Charles Dickens was one of the greatest English writers. His books are still popular today. Dickens was born in a poor family. He had little schooling (学校教育) when he was a child. He worked in a factory from morning to night, with little food to eat and only a small place to live in. When he was twelve, his father was put into prison for debt (因债入狱).

    Dickens' first important job was as a newspaper reporter. When he worked there, he wrote his first storybook, The Pickwick Papers. It was a great success. Oliver Twist, his second storybook, was also successful. He became very famous for his storybooks. Dickens wrote many books. He worked very hard and it was bad for his health. In 1870, he died when he was at work.

Young Heroes for the Planet

Nowadays, people around the world are working to help our planet. Check out how the four young adults made a difference.

Yuan Longping, "the father of hybrid rice (杂交水稻)", is one of the most important agricultural scientists. He had spent his whole life on hybrid rice.

Food was a big problem in China in the past. It was because China had 22% of the world's population, but only 7% of its farmland. In the 1960s, China had serious hunger. Millions of people died because they had no food. Professor Yuan was very sad to see this. "How can I help people have enough food?" he thought. He decided to work on a new kind of hybrid rice that had a high output (产量). He and his team studied the rice seeds (种子)day and night. At last, in 1973, they grew a new kind of hybrid rice. This rice is strong. Farmers can grow it in many different kinds of farmland and also in bad weather. It can also fight diseases. Its output is much higher than common kinds of rice.

Professor Yuan has already left us, but he will be remembered forever.

Yuan Longping was a great scientist. He spent his life (help) lift our nation out of hunger by planting his hybrid rice. Now people plant it in countries such as India, Vietnam and the US. (million) of people around the world benefit from his rice. People call (he) the "father of hybrid rice". However， May 22nd, 2021, he passed away at 91. It was (real) a sad day for all the people across China.

Welcome to Great Minds. Today we're going to talk about three famous people in history.

Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879, and (die) in the US in 1955. He is considered (be) the greatest scientist of the 20^th century. His theories explain the way the universe (work). In many photographs, you can see his (smile) face.

William Shakespeare lived about 400 years ago. During his life, he wrote around 39 plays as (good) as hundreds of poems. He's the most popular writer in the English language. One of his most famous plays (call) Romeo and Juliet.

Confucius lived over 2, 000 years ago in China. He was a teacher and philosopher. He spent much of (he) life travelling and meeting many different people. He is remembered for his wise sayings. They were written down by his students.

It all started with a group of friends and a simple bet. Twins Coby and Cory Cotton, and their friends Garrett Hilbert, Cody Jones and Tyler Toney were roommates at Texas A&M University. One day Tyler bet Garret that he could make a crazy over-the-shoulder basketball shot. Tyler made the shot. Then the rest of the guys tried their own even crazier shots! Each of them was eager to perform better than the others. One of them set up a camera to capture the action, he looked through the lens(镜头) and commented, "Dude, perfect."

Little did the friends know that their video which they posted online would go viral. In just one week it hit 100,000 views. They decided to call their group "Dude Perfect" and began to try even harder trick shots. Soon they had American talk shows asking to air their videos on TV. Today, Dude Perfect tops the You Tube channel charts in the United States. In addition, the guys have their own TV series, The Dude Perfect Show, popular toys named after them, and an online store, selling things from T-shirts to backpacks. It is said that the group's yearly earnings from You Tube alone are about US$ 2 million a year. The Dude Perfect guys make most of their videos in a 25, 000-square-foot building in San Francisco.

Inside there is a full-size basketball court, soccer field, an area for golfing, cool cars they can drive around, lots of video-production equipment and more. While making their videos, they have spent time with some of the world's best athletes and broke several world records. The secret to the accuracy(精准) of their shots is no secret at all--a lot of practice and a spirit of never give up.

Since Dude Perfect started, all five of the guys have married, and three have children. Although all of them are now responsible adults, they are still kids at heart, and that comes through clearly in their video and TV show.

In the 1800s, Johnny Appleseed traveled throughout the American Midwest and beyond. He must have been a1sight, traveling barefoot, wearing a coffee bag for clothes and a metal pan for a hat. Despite his unusual appearance, early settlers 2Appleseed because he brought them one thing he never traveled without. He went3 with a bag of apple seeds (种子).

How did Appleseed become4 with apples in the first place? Born in 1774 in

Massachusetts, he was given the name John Chapman. He had 11 brothers and sisters. Sometimes they were so noisy that he would often escape to the5 woods around the family farm.

As a young man, he learned how to successfully grow6. By 1812,  he  moved throughout  America's  wilderness( 荒 野 ), planting apple trees as he  traveled. Actually, he had a 7. It was clear that the young country was moving west, so Appleseed carefully planted nurseries(苗圃) along the roads the settlers 8. He would then trade or sell his trees to these new arrivals. According to the law, settlers could declare 9  of a piece of land by planting 50 apple trees on it. With a selfless   heart and no longing for material 10, Appleseed was very popular with the new settlers. Over those years, legends about him11, and people began calling him "Johnny Appleseed".

He also 12trees to poor settlers to help improve their lives. His apples were used 13for apple cider, a source of some Vitamins and minerals. It also helped provide water for people, especially when water sources were often14. Additionally, settlers could trade or sell apple products to increase their income.

Today  Appleseed is praised for 15 the way for America's  early pioneers to settle new territory( 领 土). He is also16 to actively help protect the environment.

Mike was a funny student. He loved watching comedies best and hoped to become a comedy 1 one day.

When he heard that there was going to be a talent show at school, Mike 2 to join in it. He had never acted on stage （舞台）before, and he was very 3 But some students laughed at him. "You are not funny at all. No one will like what you do! " his classmate Ken said to him 4.

Mike couldn't understand why he was so unkind to him. He sometimes thought about giving up（放弃）the 5 . But he remembered how much his friends liked his 6 , and also his teacher said he was very funny. So he started to prepare for the show.

Mike did a great job at the talent show. Everyone 7 his program, and he won the first prize! His teachers and friends were happy. But some people still told Mike that he would never be successful. Mike didn't understand why they said so. But he thought that what they said had 8 to do with him. He still worked hard to make his 9come true.

"The road to success was not 10, but Mike prepared to face any difficulties in his life. " Luckily, as he made good preparations for each show, he became more 11 quickly. He got a lot of chances（机会）to act in the movies. Even a popular talk show 12 him to appear on television. His fans thanked him 13 his comedies made them feel good when they were unhappy.

Now Mike is a comedy star! He is doing what he loves best, 14 he brings happiness everywhere he goes. We can learn from Mike that 15 we never give up our dream, we will be successful. So just be yourself

Ann was born on October 3, 1997 in Victoria Canada. Her mother is Philippine and her father is a Polish. Although she is young, she has become an inventor, a speaker, and a writer.

Ann is creative. As early as 11, Ann entered the world of science fairs. She took part in 10 science fairs and all of her projects were about green energy.

Ann is friendly and helpful. When she was 14 years old, she found out that her friend Maria in the Philippines failed at school because she didn't have any light to study with at night. Her family couldn't afford electricity. In order to help Maria, Ann came up with an idea. After a year of research, Ann invented the "Hollow Flashlight", a flashlight that uses the heat of human hands.

Ann is strong and brave. After finishing high school in 2015, Ann went to university. But in January 2017, she was seriously ill. The whole right side of her body couldn't walk normally, but she wasn't frightened by it. She spent over two weeks in the hospital and continued to recover (恢复) for months at home. Finally, she was in full health.

Ann always works hard and keeps trying. Her dreams are to use technology to make the world a better place and to keep the environment clean. 

Jason, a 16-year-old boy, is the PE monitor in our class. He is from Africa. He often1basketball with other boys after school. When we can't2him, he must be in the playground. He is a very3basketball player and runner4our school team. That's5he becomes the PE monitor.

Jason is strong and his hands are6. He can hold(握住)a basketball with one hand. He is7and often helps other students. He 8on well with everybody and we9like him. There is a basketball10tomorrow. Let's go and cheer Jason!

ODD

 TEENS

February 22, 2021

Artist's strange 'ears'

Photo provided by XINHUA

It looks like this man is wearing two fins （鳍） on his head. But they are not animal fins. They are made of silicon （硅）.

Manel de Aguas is an artist from Spain. He put a "weather fin" in each side of his head. The first weigh 500 grams. That's as heavy as 10 eggs. There is a microchip （微芯片） in each fin. When the weather changes, the sound inside the microchip will tell him about the temperature, humidity （湿度）, and atmosphere pressure （气压）, according to Oddity Central. Aguas said he wanted to make the fins because of his love of fish.

"The atmosphere sounds inside my head, "Aguas said, "It's like being in one type of medium or another."

When Aguas walks down the street, he often gets strange looks. "I'm used to people looking at me in the street, but the truth is that I don't care about it at all. " he said.

Brenda Bongos was a happy, talented girl. She had one big dream--to play the drums in a band. But one big problem lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to practise a lot, but she lived next door to a lot of old people. Many of them are sick. She knew that the sound of beating drums would really get them nervous. So, she had tried playing in the strangest places: a basement, a kitchen, and even in a shower. But there was always someone who would get mad.

One day, while watching a science documentary on TV, she heard that sound cannot travel in space, because there's no air. At that moment, Brenda Bongos decided to become a musical astronaut.

With the help of a lot of time, books and work, Brenda built a space bubble(泡). This was a big glass ball connected to a machine which sucked out(吸出) all the air inside. All that would be left inside was a drum kit(配套设备) and a chair. Brenda got into the space suit she had made, entered the bubble, turned on the machine, and played those drums like a wild child.

It wasn't long before Brenda Bongos became very famous. Many people came to see her play in her space bubble. Shortly afterwards she came out of the bubble and started giving concerts. Her fame(名声, 名望) spread so much that the government suggested that she be part of a special space journey. Finally, ___▲___, and it was far beyond her first dream of playing drums in a band.

Years later, when asked how she had realised all her dreams, she thought for a moment, and said, "If those old people next-door hadn't mattered so much to me, I wouldn't have found a solution(解决), and none of this would have ever happened."

PEN PAL WANTED

My is Lei Hao, and my English name is Rick. My birthday is on28th, 1990. from China. I live in Tianjin city. I speak. I like sports very much. On weekends, I go to playwith my friend, Xie Kai, or to play ping-pong with another (另一个)friend, Wang Bin. English andare my favorite subjects. I likeclass very much at school, because my English teacher is fun. I like history class, . My favorite movies are actions and comedies. Jackie Chan is myactor. My favorite food is tomatoes and eggs.

Please write and tell me about yourself. My is rickleihao@yahoo. com. cn.

Cindy and Amy are sisters. Cindy is 12 and Amy is 14. They are middle school students, and they go to No. 9 Middle School.

Cindy and Amy have some differences (不同之处). Cindy likes red, blue and white. Amy likes yellow, green and black. Cindy likes playing with her friends after school, but Amy likes reading books at home.

Cindy and Amy have something in common (相同). They like oranges. They like English. They have many CDs.

Cindy and Amy are sisters, and they are friends, too.