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[2025 宿迁改编]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 3. (good) than before and he could understand articles very well.
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. 5. (luck), a boatman saved him. 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. (success).
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).

[2025 青岛改编]With the development of science and technology, we have learned a lot about animals. Emperor penguins can grow up to 1.2 metres tall, and they are the 11. (large) of all the penguin kinds. In 2022, they became endangered animals 12. the Antarctic sea ice is becoming smaller and smaller. Now scientists are using high technology to follow them and learn more about how 13. (protect) them.
One of the ways researchers are able to do this is 14. looking at pictures taken by satellites(卫星) above the Earth. Large groups of emperor penguins can be seen from space. When scientists 15. (one) started using satellites to look at the penguins, there were only 28 groups. So far, scientists have discovered 66 groups.
Even using satellites, it is so difficult to count how many penguins live in different groups. Scientists can improve number estimates(估计) by watching the area's weather 16. (careful). Measuring the wind speed and temperature can help predict if the penguins gather closely together or spread apart across the ice. If scientists know what the weather was like when the pictures were taken, they can estimate how many penguins there are.
Scientists can also watch penguins' movements by giving 17. (they) special electronic tags(电子标签). A robot carries a scanner(扫描仪), and it can read information on 18. tags. It moves very slowly so that it doesn't make the birds 19. (scare).
One of the penguin researchers hopes the technology 20. (lead) us to a "golden age of research". Thanks to technology, we are seeing more things that no one has ever seen before.