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.

1.1.

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解析：选a。考查不定冠词。这里泛指“一次”演讲比赛，“speech competition”以辅音音素开头，故用 a。

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解析：选found。考查动词时态。全文主体时态为一般过去时，此处描述袁隆平过去的发现，故用 find 的过去式 found。

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解析：选deeper。考查形容词比较级。句中有明确的比较标志词“than”，说明比以前的理解“更深刻”，故用 deep 的比较级 deeper。

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解析：选swimmer。考查词性转换。句中需要表示“一个游泳好手”的名词，故将动词 swim 转换为名词 swimmer。

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解析：选was saved。考查被动语态。主语 He 是动作“救”的承受者，且事件发生在过去，故用一般过去时的被动语态 was saved。

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解析：选learn。考查动词不定式。在“make sb. do sth.”结构中，do 为不带 to 的动词原形，故填 learn。

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解析：选fourth。考查数词转换。表示比赛中的“第四名”应用序数词 fourth。

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解析：选successfully。考查副词用法。此处修饰动词 entered，表示“成功地进入”，应用副词形式 successfully。

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解析：选from。考查介词搭配。“向某人学习”固定搭配为 learn from sb.，故填 from。

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解析：选and。考查固定搭配。“both... and...”是固定结构，意为“两者都”，故填 and。