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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.