George Washington Carver was born in 1864. He was born a slave(奴隶). When he was still a baby, his mother was stolen. He was kept by his master.
All his life George loved__1__. When he was only seven years old, he already knew so__2__ about plants that people in his hometown called him “the plant doctor”．
George wanted to learn as much as he could, but there was no __3__ for black children where he lived. When he was ten, he left home to find a town that would allow __4__ children to attend school. He studied in Missouri and Kansas __5__ he finished high school. All this time he had to work to__6__ his own expense(费用). He worked as a cook and opened his own laundry.
In 1890, George began college. At first he studied art, but he still had a __7__ of plants. He began to study agriculture(农业). After he graduated, the famous inventor Thomas Edison asked him to work in his lab but George __8__ . He had other __9__. He started an agricultural organization for black students in Alabama.
In those days, many __10__ in the south grew only cotton. This was __11__ to the soil(土壤). After a while the __12__ would not grow as well. George Washington Carver wanted to help farmers in the south to grow plants like peanuts and sweet potatoes. These plants helped the __13__. Over the years he invented hundreds of ways to use these two plants.
George Washington Carver invented so many things that he was __14__ “The Wizard(能手) of Tuskegee”. He died in 1943 at the__15__ of 79.
