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Reading is an activity that people enjoy a lot in their free time.
Some like reading newspapers and ____  enjoy novels or comic books. My ____  books are those about the lives of great people. Reading them always ____  me a lot of ideas on how to make my own life better.
Great people are remembered not ____  they were handsome or beautiful, but because they did not give up ____  their lives were difficult. They tried to use every chance to change their lives and make the world better.
One good example is Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two brothers who invented the ____ . The plane has made the world into a small village. Hard work, not good luck, is the ____  why the Wright brothers could ____  this convenient machine and become great people. Today we will remember them when we see planes ____  the sky.
Whenever I read stories about great people, I always ____  a lot from them and they encourage me to move forward.
This is why I enjoy reading about great people’s lives.