【正确答案】 1、正确答案：Fan Zhongyan was very diligent in reading when he was young. He often read all night through in the light. Although he was born in a poor family, the restraint of life did not shake his will to learn. He tried to seek the pleasure in books. Urged by his desire to go and see the rest of the world and study with learned scholars, at the age of twenty-three he went to Yingtianfu Academy, one of the four famous academies of Song Dynasty, where he worked with established scholars and exchanged ideas with his fellow students. He had read a large portion of the Academy"s collection, as a result of which he greatly extended his breadth of vision. His life at the Academy paved the road along which he eventually became an erudite scholar. He was not only an expert on the classics of Confucianism but also well versed in the craft of poetry and prose writing.