Copernicus was an astronomer(天文学家). He studied the       (planets/weather) and the stars. He found out that the earth        (walks/goes) around the sun. He put his thought into a book, but he hid the book. Nobody could read it        (before/after) Copernicus died.

    Many years later, Galileo        (read/watched) the book and believed that thought. Galileo said that the earth was moving around the sun. This made lots of people        (happy/angry) because they thought the earth must be the center of the universe. Galileo got into trouble and he had to say that he was       (brave/wrong), but Galileo knew he was right.

    Galileo watched the moon carefully through his telescope(望远镜). He       (invented/saw) some hills there. He also saw        (millions/millions of) stars in the universe. In 1673 his eyes became weak, and then he couldn't see       (anything/nothing) through his telescope.

   Galileo died in 1642 and the world lost a        (funny/great) man. But in the same year, another great scientist Newton was born in England.

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In June, 2013, the spaceship Shenzhou X was successful sent into space. I was……

Be an Original

      It's said that we human beings are the only creatures who refuse to be what we are. One writer said, “When people are free to do what they want, they usually copy each other.” Yet nobody can be you as well as you can. Every successful person becomes successful because he or she discovered and developed his or her own special abilities. As a guy said, “One of the hardest things about climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd of copies at the bottom.”

      So remember you are a specialist. You're not made to be all things to all people. Surveys have shown that usually about 20 percent of all the people who know you don't really like you that much. You just can't please all the people all the time! So don't try to have peace at all costs, especially at the cost of your own success. “Don't stay where you're tolerated (忍受), go where you're celebrated!” Be yourself. Be an original (有独创性的人)! You really are one-of-a-kind. You're the first and last person who will ever be exactly like you.

      Do you know that over 90 percent of all flowers have no smell at all? It's the ones with a sweet fragrance (香味) and smell that we remember. So don't be afraid to be different, if it means being yourself. We are like rivers, “If we follow the easy path of least resistance, it will make us crooked (弯曲).” So don't follow where the path may lead, go where there is no path and leave your own trail. “You're born an original, don't die a copy!” Too many people are like the living dead, they've buried their real talents and abilities.

Lasting a Lifetime

      Sidney Wilson's watch was old and it did not work well. It was either too fast or too slow. It spent more time in the repair shop than on his wrist (手腕). So he decided to buy himself a new watch.

      He went into a jewelry shop and said to the saleswoman behind the counter.

      “I want to buy a new watch, please. Show me the best watch you have.”

      The saleswoman smiled happily. This was the kind of customer she liked.

     “Certainly, sir,” she said, and showed Sidney a gold watch.

      “This watch is made of gold and has twenty-four jewels,” she explained.

      “How much is it?” Sidney asked.

      “$5,000,” the saleswoman said.

      “Oh,” Sidney said. “I'm sorry. You did not understand me. I want to see the best watch you have for under $100.”

      The sales woman now lost interest in Sidney. She pushed some cheap watches at him. “Choose one from these,” she said rudely.       “They are all under $100.”

      Sidney picked up one of the watches, “Will it last me a lifetime?” he asked.

     “Of course,” the saleswoman said.

     “Then I'll buy it,” Sidney told her. He paid for the watch and left the shop.

      Two days later the watch stopped. Sidney could not make it work again. He took it back to the shop.

      “This watch is broken,” he said to the saleswoman. “You told me it would last me a lifetime.”

     “When you bought it, sir,” the saleswoman said, “you didn't look very well.”

Choose the best answer to each question about the story.

The Cheater

      Donald was not very good at math. He could not understand the teacher's explanations. “Never mind,”Donald told himself. “I'll cheat in the math exam, then I won't be in trouble.”

      The day of the exam came, and Donald sat next to Brian Smith, who always was at the top of the class in math. Donald carefully copied Brian's answers on to his own exam paper.

      The teacher collected the papers and graded (打分) them. Then she said, “Well, I've decided to give a prize to the student who got the highest grade. It's difficult for me to decide who to give the prize to, because two students, Donald and Brian, got the same grade.

“Let them share it,” one of the other students said. “I've thought about that,” the teacher said, “but I've decided to give the prize to Brian.” Donald stood up and said, “That's not fair. I got the same grade as Brian.”

“That's true,” the teacher said. “However, Brian's answer to Question 18 was ‘I don't know'. Yours was ‘Neither do I'.”

Choose the best answer to each question according to the passage.

    July 20th, 1969 was an important day. Two Americans 1 on the moon. Their 2 were Armstrong and Aldrin. They went there in a 3. Its name was ApolloⅡ.

    ApolloⅡ left the earth 4 July 16th and went three hundred and eighty-five thousand kilometers. It 5 the two Americans three days to get there. On July 20^th, the spaceship landed in the Sea of Tranquility (安静的世界). Armstrong 6 stepped onto (踏上) the moon. The two men walked on the surface of it. They 7 up some rocks and put them in the spaceship. They jumped up and down. They were 8 after their walk. So they had a rest.

    On July 21th, ApolloⅡleft the moon and 9 to the earth. Three days 10 it came down in the Pacific Ocean (太平洋). A ship took the men to America.