Ⅵ. 语法填空题。
阅读下面材料，按照句子结构的语法情况和上下文连贯的要求，在空白处填入适当的词或用括号中所给词的正确形式填空。每空不超过两词。
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 found reading aloud was a great way 2. (memorize) his speech. It could make his memory even better and he could have a 3. (deep) understanding of passages than before.
Yuan is a good 4. (swim). When he was 8 years old, he and his family took a ship to Hunan. He 5. from the ship. Luckily, he was saved 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 got 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 junior high school students, we should find our own interests and life dreams like Yuan Longping.

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