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The great scientist Albert Einstein didn't seem to be bright when he was young. No one ever thought that shy, young Albert would grow up to change the world. He was so slow in learning to speak that he (consider) a bit dull. Here is the story of his (young).

Albert Einstein was never happy in school. He did not like to memorize facts and rules. He answered (slow) because he was a thinker. And he asked difficult questions, made teachers think that he was trying to make trouble. However, young Einstein did learn what interested him. He was interested in what lay below the surface of things. When he was five, for example, his father gave him a compass (指南针) with moving needle. This made Albert Einstein curious the unseen forces that could keep a compass needle always (point) north. He asked his father and his uncle what caused the needle to move. Their answers were difficult for the boy (understand). Yet he spent a lot of time (think) about them. When he was 17, Einstein entered the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, where he (study) mathematics and physics, and later achieved great success.

Two years ago, on 30 December, my friend Mel Olsen and I drove to Oregon to climb 11,240-foot Mount Hood. That day, we started at 3 a.m. It was about -10℃. Along the way, we met two other climbers, and the3 of us continued on together. Before the final push to the top, my face felt4 it were burning. The other climbers decided to5 , but Mel and I went ahead.

As we went higher, it became more difficult to climb on. At around 9 a.m., we reached an ice step. It was about three or four feet tall. I volunteered to go first. I placed my left foot on the ice step. I was6 that I was safe, so I put my full weight on it. Suddenly, I heard a sound, and a whole piece of7 broke off the step, right under my foot.

In a second, I fell backwards. I could hear Mel calling my8 as I was rolling down the mountain. After a few9 , I found I'd fallen 50 feet. Then I took a survey of my body to see10 I was hurt, starting with my head, then my neck and arms. For the most part, I was fine, except that I was suffering from a huge pain in my left11 and couldn't move.

I shouted for help, and immediately Mel and other climbers came to help me and called Mountain Rescue. Then I was taken to a12 where I stayed for four days. The doctors told me it would be a year before my leg was well again, but I started climbing again half a year later.

The fall has made me more careful. But the experience also made me13 as a person. Since the14 , I've climbed another 60 mountains. I'm not going to let one fall15 me from doing my favorite thing.