Zheng Chunhui, a wood carving craftsman for nearly four decades, has recently been busy with a new creation—a wood carving 100 meters long     1     2. 6 meters high, depicting(描绘)the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. In his carving, Zheng     2     (hope)to show local traditions and customs of the areas along the canal’s route.

Born in 1968, Zheng     3     (become)a wood carving craftsman in 1983. His birthplace. Putian. Fujian Province, is known     4     Putian wood carving. “I was     5     (real)interested in painting and other arts during childhood, so I chose to become a craftsman,” Zheng said.

His love of painting can     6     (see)in his wood carvings. Similar to the landscape themes of     7     (tradition)Chinese paintings, Zheng’s artworks are also about nature. “I often draw my inspiration from the poems and paintings of ancient     8     (artist), and then express my understanding of them by creating new works with different types of wood,” Zheng said.

    9     (exhibit)his works and promote the craft, Zheng opened a wood carving gallery in Putian in 2015, the first run by an individual artist and free to the public.

Zheng plans to finish the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal wood carving in three years. “     10     will take a lot of time and energy to complete, but I am confident in my skills and experience,” he said.

6 . Arun Kumar Bajaj has a very unusual skill——he can paint with a sewing machine. Technically, it’s embroidering(刺绣), not painting, but his artworks are so detailed that they can pass paintings to the untrained eyes. And the fact that he does it all with a sewing machine just makes it that much more impressive.

Arun was really good at drawing and painting while growing up and dreamed of becoming a famous painter, but his father died suddenly 15 years ago, which destroyed his plans and forced him to give up school in order to run the family business. His father was a tailor and he became one too, but he didn’t let the artist in him die. He started “painting” with needle and thread, but instead of using his hands, he decided on a rather unusual tool—-the sewing machine. It took him a while to master this unique art form, but today he is recognized as the world’s only sewing machine artist. His works become very popular both in India and abroad. It^’s easy to see why, just by looking at them, but what really makes his embroideries special is the tool he uses.

“You need to be very careful because once you^’ve stitched the cloth, there’s no way you can repair it, ” Arun said. “It’s all done in a single layer to give the painting a neat look. ”

Some of Arun’s most impressive works include a 4x2 feet painting of the court of Ranjit Singh which took the artist over a year to finish. Arun runs a tailoring business in the Adalat Bazar of Patiala, but he devotes a lot of his time to his artistic dream as well.

Li Ziqi didn’t own a happy childhood. Her parents got     1     (divorce) and her father died when she was a child. She started living with her grandparents. Their life was poor    2     peaceful. Her grandfather was a cook in the village. When there was a ceremony going on, such as a wedding or a funeral, her grandfather would be in charge of the cooking.

    3    the age of 14, she dropped out of school and went to work in big cities, trying to support herself and her family. In 2012, her grandmother had an illness, so Li Ziqi came back home     4     (take) care of her grandmother. It was during that time     5     she decided to become an online celebrity.

She started making videos of cooking meals, using all ingredients in her farmland, and uploaded them on to the network. Finally, in 2016, her video series became a hit online. Now, Li Ziqi has    6    (true) become an online celebrity in China. Living a peaceful life like her    7    (be) just the dream of many people. In front of the camera, she always appears in a set of traditional hanfu,     8    makes her videos more charming and     9     (attract). Many people show great interest in her clothing as well as her cooking.

Also, her videos help more foreigners learn and understand Chinese traditions and culture. The spirit of struggling for independence and self-reliance     10    (convey) by her life experience has attracted great attention at home and abroad.

An 89-year-old man has reached a goal he spent 20 years working toward. He earned his doctor degree and became a physicist.

Steiner values this degree because it is what he always wanted — and because he overcame health problems that could have interfered with his studies.

As a young person in Vienna, Austria, Steiner wanted to become a physicist after reading about Albert Einstein and Max Planck.

But after World War Ⅱ, his mother advised him that studying medicine would be a better choice. He earned his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1955 and moved to the United States soon after. In the U.S., he had a successful career studying blood, became a full professor and led the hematology (血液学) department at Brown’s medical school from 1985 to 1994. He helped establish a research program in hematology and directed that program until he retired from medicine in 2000.

Steiner found medical research pleasing, but it was not quite the same as his interest in physics.

“It was something like a wish that was never fulilled, that always stuck in the back of my head,” he said. “Once I’m finished with medicine, I really don’t want to spend my life just sitting around and maybe doing a little golfing or doing something like that. I wanted to keep active.

At age 70, he started taking undergraduate classes at Brown University. He was planning to just take a few classes that interested him. But by 2007, he had earned enough credits to join the doctoral program.

Physics professor Brad Marston soon realized how serious Steiner was about the subject and how hard he worked. “He already had a scientific way of thinking that younger students have to develop,” Marston said. “One thing that’s really true about Manfred is he perseveres.”

After the university published a story about Steiner on its website, people across the U.S. contacted him to ask for advice on how to go after their dreams later in life.

He said his advice is: Do what you love to do.