When it comes to Yuan Longping, we will think of him as the “Father of Hybrid Rice”. In fact, he is also good at reading, swimming and playing the violin.
Yuan has a reading habit—reading aloud. In the first year of high school, there was ____1___ speech competition. Yuan took part in the competition. He chose a topic, wrote his speech and read it aloud in the morning. After that, he ____2____ (find) reading aloud was a good method. It could make his memory much better and he could have a ____3____ (deep) understanding of articles than before.
Yuan is a good ____4____ (swim). When he was 8 years old, he and his family took a ship to Hunan. He fell from the ship. He ____5____ (save) by a boatman. This made him ____6____ (learn) to swim—he wanted to be able to save others just as the boatman had saved him. In a national swimming competition in Chengdu, Yuan finished ____7____ (four) in the race, while the top three entered China’s national swimming team ____8___ (successful).
Yuan is also a good music lover. He learned to play the violin ____9____ a music teacher at college. He said, “Music is the warmth that has accompanied (陪伴) me throughout my life.”
Yuan once said, “We should be good both in mind ____10___ body.” Not only did he finish great things, but he also had a unique soul (独特的灵魂).
As middle school students, we should also find our own interests and life dreams like Yuan Longping.