It happened two years ago. I was getting ready to go to Beijing     1     I fell down the stairs and hurt my leg. I thought nothing     2     (bad) could happen to me, so I decided to go anyway.

I managed to talk my father into giving me a ride to the station, which was five     3     (kilometer) from our house. We planned     4     (set) out very early to catch the 7 a. m. train but the car wouldn’t start. When we finally left, it was already 6:30. My father is     5     very slow driver so I asked him to speed up. When we were doing 120 km/h a policeman stopped us     6     handed out a rather heavy fine to my father for speeding. I was very     7     (worry) — there were only fifteen minutes left and we were nowhere near the station yet.

Much to my annoyance, the car     8     (sudden) started to jerk (颠簸) and it soon turned out that we had run out of petrol. We had to stop at the petrol station to fill up the tank. We finally got to the station at three minutes to seven. I kissed my father goodbye,     9     (jump) on the train and settled down in my seat in relief. But as soon as we reached the next station, I realized that I     10     (get) on the wrong train: I was traveling to Wuhan, not Beijing!

On the first day of my first grade, I     1     (stand) by the door with butterflies in my stomach. I voiced my biggest concern to my mother, “How will I make friends?” She     2     (hand) me advice, “Be yourself.” For the past 20 years, I     3     (live) by these words. Soon I will graduate and become part of the real world. Nervously facing     4     (challenge), I know I will whisper to myself the two simple words “Be yourself.”

So this is it — senior high school at last. I’m not outgoing so I’m a little     1     (anxiety) right now. I want to make a good first     2     (impress). Will I make any friends? What if no one     3     (talk) to me? I just had my first maths class at senior high school! The class was difficult,     4     the teacher was kind. He even told us a funny story and everyone laughed so much! I found most of my classmates and teachers friendly and     5     (help).

This afternoon we had our chemistry class in the science lab. The lab is new and the lesson was great, but the guy next to me tried to talk to me the whole time. I couldn’t concentrate     6     the experiment. I really wanted to tell him     7     (be) quiet and leave me alone.

What a day! This morning, I was worried that no one would talk to me. But I was wrong. I didn’t feel awkward or     8     (frighten) at all. I miss my friends from junior high school, but I believe I will make new friends here and there’s a lot     9     (explore) at senior high. I feel much more confident than I felt this morning. I think that tomorrow     10     (be) a great day!

Zhang Guimei, who has dedicated her 40 years to education at China’s southwestern border,     1     (be) a “mother” for more than. 170 children and a principal motivating young girls from impoverished families in     2     (mountain) areas.

Teaching at a middle school in Huaping county, she saw many girls drop     3     of school due to poverty. She realized that an educated female is able to cut the intergenerational     4     (transmit) of poverty and change the future of three generations. In 2002, Zhang started her preparation to build a free all-girls high school, in hope of changing the destiny of the girls in the mountain     5     lifting them out of poverty.

In 2007, Zhang went to Beijing for the 17th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress as a deputy. Her report,     6     title was “I have a dream” made her dream of building a free all girls high school known to all. Later,     7     (sponsor) by both the Lijiang and Huaping governments, Zhang’s school was completed.

The school,     8     (bear) to fight against poverty, is a shelter for a number of girls in that area. During the past 13 years, the school has nurtured over 1,800 students who have made it     9     universities.

Zhang suffers from 23 diseases, but she is still working selflessly. She gets up at 5:00 am and is always the first one among all the staff     10     (arrive) at school. Zhang has made over 1,600 family visits annually for the past 12 years.