Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she talked about how she became a percussion soloist（打擊樂器獨(dú)奏演員）in spite of deafness.
“Early on I decided not to allow the   1  of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began   2  piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion（酷愛）for music grew. But I also began to lose my   3 . Doctors told me that the nerve damage(神經(jīng)損傷) was the  4  and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never left me.”
“My   5  was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I learned to ‘hear’ music differently from others. I play in my stocking feet and can  6  the pitch of a note（音調(diào)高低）by the vibrations（振動）I feel through my body and through my imagination. My sound world exists by making use of almost every   7 that I have.”
“I decided to be a musician even though I was deaf, and applied to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London. No other deaf student had   8  this before and some teachers disagreed with me. Because of my performance, I finally entered the academy and went on to  9  with the academy’s highest honors a few years later.”
“I’ve been a soloist for more than ten years. 10  the doctor thought I was totally deaf, it didn’t mean that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be limited by others. Follow your passion; follow your heart. They will lead you to the place you want to go.”

Dolores Huerta has worked hard most of her life to help other people. She has helped change things so that farm workers can have a better life.
Dolores grew up in California. She was a good student and liked school. After she finished high school, she went to college and studied to be a teacher. After she became a teacher, Dolores noticed that many of her students were not getting enough food to eat. Some of them wore very old clothes. Dolores wondered how she could help them.
Dolores decided to stop teaching so that she could spend more time helping the farm workers and their families. One thing she wanted to do was to get more pay for farm workers so they could buy their children the things they needed.
Dolores knew that many farm workers moved often from one place to another to help pick different kinds of fruits and vegetables. She began talking and writing about these workers. Even people who lived far from California read what Dolores wrote.
Getting higher pay for the farm workers was not easy. Dolores worked hard to make sure that farm workers got good pay for their work. She knew that nothing would change unless people made new laws to help the workers. Through all her hard work, new laws were made that gave farm workers good pay.
Dolores Huerta has worked for more than 30 years in many different ways to make life better for working people. She has shown how much one person can change things.
【小題1】Dolores became a ____ after she left college.

 all by herself     a big success       in need      prove    treat

Many believe that life has smiled on Yang Mi: at the age of 4, she got her first TV drama role; at 16, she became a model for a fashion magazine; at 18, she went to her dream college — Beijing Film Academy.

    Last year, the 24-year-old actress played a bad girl named Luo Qingchuan in the time-traveling TV drama, Palace. The drama became   1   and made Yang very famous. The number of her micro blog followers increased from several thousand to more than 3 million overnight.

Could she be any luckier?

    Yang doesn’t think luck had anything to do with her success. She paved (鋪路) her way   2   . “Every chance is gained from the efforts I’ve made,” said Yang. People now think she’s very hard-working.

    She still recalls the time when people gave her the cold shoulder. Some   3her with little respect. They didn’t want to help her in her time of need. “I have to thank them because they made me do something to    4   myself,” she said.

That’s why she is eager to help others when they are    5    . In May, Yang became the ambassador (大使) for the Climate Group. She calls on people to plant trees on China’s dry land. Together we’ll fight the bad weather!