The famous Chinese scientist, Yuan Longping, died of illness at the age of 91 in May 2021. Yuan Longping is not only a ________ scientist in agriculture（农业）, but also a romantic（浪漫的）husband and a caring grandfather. He is known as ________ of Hybrid Rice（杂交水稻）which pulled countless people out of ________.

A documentary（纪录片）________ some of his life stories. In the opening parts, Yuan’s three granddaughters recalled（回忆）stories ________ their grandfather and said that he mostly cared about their English and math studies. The grandkids recalled that ________ Yuan travelled to Hong Kong with his family, he tried to ________ a new watch for his wife, but he didn’t, because it was too ________, and he fed his wife with a candy.

Hundreds of people attended Yuan’s 90^th birthday celebration. This is a heartwarming moment（时刻）: Yuan cut the first ________ of cake and gave it to his wife at once.

The documentary also found that Yuan developed an “exercise program”, to play mahjong（麻将）with friends for an hour at 8 p.m. every evening to ________ his brain, though he was quite busy. When his seawater rice research was successful, he was very excited, and copied the action of ducks with “quack, quack, quack”, while passing a pond（池塘）.

   Naomi was thinking about her vacation report. She visited her friend Grace and got some ideas.

“What should I write about?” she thought again on her way home. Near a shrine（圣地）, she found a beautiful bird singing on a big stone. She looked at the stone and saw some letters on it. “What is this stone for?” she wondered. Naomi talked about the stone to her grandpa. “That is a stone monument which has a long history,” her grandpa said. Naomi also told her grandpa about her report. “I think it is a good idea to write about it. Go and visit my friend Sam,” said Naomi’s grandpa.

The next day, Naomi went to see Sam. “________ We have more stone monuments around here. The one you saw was built about two hundred years ago. People around here thought that trees had souls（灵魂）. But they had to cut and use the trees for their own lives. They made the stone monuments to thank the trees,” Sam said. “We should live with nature. However, we sometimes forget that important thing. When we see the stone monuments, we can remember            that,” Sam said.

“This is a part of our local culture, and young people like me have to learn about this.” Naomi thought.

The new term started. “Your report is great. You worked hard to write it,” Naomi’s teacher said. The teacher’s words made Naomi so happy. Passing the stone again, Naomi said to the bird, “Thank you for telling me.”

Tianwen I is China’s first Mars probe（火星探测器）. Where does the name come from? Do you still remember Qu Yuan, a famous poet in ancient China? He loved his motherland very much. His long poem “Heavenly Questions（天问）” expresses the continual hard work and the great spirit of the Chinese nation to science. That is why Tianwen I was officially named, which is quite cultural and beautiful.

On July 14, 2020. Tianwen I arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Site（发射站）in Hainan Province. The space probe Tianwen I based off（发射升空）at 12:41 p.m. on July 23, 2020, carrying a Long March 5 carrier rocket（长征5号运载火箭）. It took Tianwen I about seven months to travel to Mars.

The China’s Mars rover（火星车）, Zhurong moved from is landing platform（平台）onto the surface of the Red Planet at 10:40 a.m. on May 15^th, 2021, starting is exploration（探险旅程）around the landing site.

The 240-kilogram robot was sent into the sky to survey Mars’ landforms, geography situation, and something about water, ice, environment and other physical fields.

Before Tianwen I, no country had ever tried to send an orbiter（运行器）, a lander and a rover in one single expedition（考察）to Mars.

   What should China be proud of?
36．

A foreign girl living in China tells us what she has heard and seen in China.

Jenny is from England.
37． Ai Hua loves China and Chinese. Six years ago, she came to China to study at Tsinghua University.
38． The following is what China is like in her eyes:

I’m interested in not only China’s history and culture, but also its traditional festivals.
39． There are a lot of places of interest in China. And the food in China is amazing.
40． What’s more, it’s not difficult for you to find a new job in China.

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Thank you for inviting me to New Zealand Summer English Training. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua