Isaac Newton （艾薩克?牛頓） was born in Woolsthorpe，England，on December 25，1642.He was born early and he was very（1）w

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.No one believed he could continue to live.But he surprised（2）e

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veryone

.He had one of the most powerful （強(qiáng)有力的） minds （大腦） in history.And he lived（3）u

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ntil

he was 84.
   Newton's father（4）d

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before he was born.His mother married again a few years later.She left Newton with his grandmother.
   The boy was not a good student.Yet he was curious （好奇的） and liked to make things，such as kites，clocks and simple machines.Newton also（5）e

njoyed

njoyed

finding new ways to answer questions or solve problems.As a boy，for（6）e

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，he wanted to find a way to measure （測(cè)量） the speed （速度） of the wind.On a（7）w

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day，he measured how far he could jump with the wind at his back.Then he measured how far he could jump with the wind in his face.From the（8）d

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ifference

between the two jumps，he made his own measure of the power of the wind.
   Strangely，Newton became a much better student after a boy kicked him in the stomach.
The boy was one of the best students in the school.Newton decided to get even （報(bào)復(fù)） by getting （9）h

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marks than the boy who kicked him.In a short time，Newton became the top student at the school.
   Newton left school to help on the family farm. （10）H

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，the boy was not a good farmer.An uncle believed that Norton would do better as a student than as a farmer.So he sponsored （資助） the young man into Cambridge University to study math.