Under bright-blue morning skies, China launched     1     (it)first crewed space mission in five years on June 17th,       2     (send) three pilots rocketing to a new orbiting station.

The astronauts are traveling in the Shenzhou-12 spaceship     3    (launch) by a Long March-2F Y12 rocket     4     blasted off shortly after the target time of 9:22 a.m.（0122 GMT）with near-perfect visibility at the launch center on the edge of the Gobi Desert.

The two veteran astronauts and a newcomer making his first space flight are scheduled     5    (stay) three months in the Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, conducting experiments, testing equipment     6     preparing the station for expansion. The mission is the third of 11 planned through next year to add the     7    (addition) sections to the station and send up crews and supplies. A fresh three-member crew and a cargo ship with supplies     8     (go) into space in three months.

The mission brings to 12     9     number of astronauts China has sent into space since its first crewed mission in 2003, making China become only the third country     10     the Soviet Union and the United States to do so on its own.

On October 16, 2003, the first Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei landed     1    (safe) in the Shenzhou Ⅴ capsule in Inner Mongolia after making 14 orbits of the earth. He took     2     from Jiuquan in north west China. It was     3     an important historical achievement that China became the third nation     4    (send) a man into space. After hearing     5     good news, the former Premier Wen Jiabao called the Control Centre to offer his congratulations. Besides, many countries around the world sent     6    (message) of congratulations. Yang himself was also excited. He said it     7    (be) a great moment in the history of China and also the     8    (great) day of his life. While     9    (travel) in space, Yang took many photographs of the planet earth and spoke to two astronauts aboard the International Space Station,     10     is orbiting the earths.

Yuan Longping is a plant scientist. People often call     1     ( he) the father of hybrid rice because of his important and world- changing work on the hybrid rice plant.

Yuan was born in Beijing in 1930 and graduated     2     the Southwest University of Agriculture in Chongqing in 1953. After graduation , he became a teacher at a school in Hunan province. In the 1960s, China experiences some bad     3     (nature) disasters and a lot of the country’s rice crops     4     (destroy). It caused a big problem. At the time. China’s population was growing very     5     ( quick), and the supplies of rice had not yet recovered.China’s     6     ( farm) found it hard to feed all of the people in the country with the available supply of rice. A solution was needed.

In 1964,Yuan found a kind of hybrid rice plant with advantaged over current types. He experimented a lot and developed a way     7     ( produce) this hybrid rice in large amounts. However, the first hybrid rice plant was not very successful. He experimented     8     worked with others, and by 1973, he     9     ( find) a way successfully to create a higher-producing species of rice . The new species was able to grow 20%    10     (much) than the original.

Zhong Nanshan was born in October 1936 in Central Hospital in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Zhong     1     (grow) up in a family of doctors,     2     father was a well-known pediatrician (儿科医生). Following   the   family   tradition, Zhong Nanshan    3     (admit) to Beijing Medical University in 1955.

Many people know Zhong     4     a famous doctor, but few know that he was once an outstanding athlete.     5     he didn’t choose to be a professional athlete, his love for sports never reduced. Despite his busy schedule, he works out three or four times every week. Years of physical exercise gave him a healthy body, allowing him     6    (continue) marching forward in the medical field.

Zhong’s life has always been     7     (close) linked with his patients and with the development of the nation. During the SARS outbreak, he personally examined the mouth and throat of every seriously ill patient in his hospital,       8     (give) them comfort and     9     (strong) to fight the disease. At the age of 84, Zhong is still fighting on the front-line of the novel coronavirus outbreak. With his professional medical   skills   and   great   perseverance,   Zhong   has   become     10     hero   at   this difficult time.

Amy Hawkins, the     1     (old) woman in Wales, has become a TikTok celebrity. Her 14-year-old great-grandson, Sacha Freeman,     2     (film) Hawkins on 24 January, her 110th birthday. Freeman posted the video on TikTok and it has since had around 100,000     3     (view).

“I suppose it’s nice,” said Hawkins,     4     (add) that the video had “brought us all together.” Hawkins lives in Monmouthshire with four generations of her family. Her daughter, Rosemary Morris, said that Sacha wanted     5     (make) the video because, knowing that so many of his friends can’t see their grandparents at     6     moment, he wanted to share her with everyone else. Sacha’s mother, Hannah Freeman, added that they wanted to give some “Grandma Happiness” to the world,     7     (especial) to those who have lost older people they loved.

Hawkins was born in Cardiff     8     1911. She had five brothers and one sister, Lillian,     9     recently turned 102 years old. The secret to a long life, claims Hawkins, is that they “never go to the doctor”. As a young woman, Hawkins was a     10     (dance).

A few years after her husband died, she moved in with her daughter. Now she spends her time with her family at home. “I don’t feel older,” she says, “and I can still do wheelchair dancing.”

Several years ago, Ye Ping, a woman from the a ethnic group in Yunnan Province, started to grow coffee together with other women in her village. Despite the various difficulties, the women did not give up,     1     faced the challenges head-on. In May 2021, the coffee beans grown by Ye    2     (present) as a gift to representatives of members of the UN Security Council.

Before they started growing coffee, none of Ye and her fellow villagers had known what coffee was like，     3     (cause) some of them to be uncertain about the business prospects. Some villagers expressed their concerns. They asked     4     they could do if they ended up failing     5     (sell) the coffee beans.

But Ye was a     6     (ambition) woman and told herself that one day she would succeed in growing coffee. She sowed the seeds and took good care of them. She worked hard to improve her planting skills and,     7     (surprising)，she really made it in the end. In 2018, the coffee Ye had grown won first prize in a coffee     8     (compete). Through years of efforts, Ye has explored methods to produce coffee     9     high quality, selling it at a higher price than     10     (import) coffee. Ye said, “Life is a bit like coffee. At first you may find it bittertasting, but then you’ll find sweetness in it.”

George Washington Carver was an     1     (agriculture) scientist who became one of America’s most well-known inventors. His accomplishments are even     2     (remark) when we learn how his life began.

George certainly did not have an easy start to life. He was born into slavery just one year     3     it was made illegal in America. As a child, he lived with his mother’s previous owners, the Carvers,     4     owned a farm in Missouri There, Mrs Carver taught him how to read and write and how to work the land.

From a young age, George was     5     (nature) curious. He loved art, music, and science. He was especially interested in farming and enjoyed experimenting with soil and plants. He had a knack for understanding how to protect crops from pests and diseases. He became     6     skilled that neighboring farmers recruited him to help them with their orchards and farms. George soon became known in the area as the “Plant Doctor.”

Carver also used his creative genius     7     (invent) over 150 uses for sweet potatoes,     8     (include) flour, vinegar, paint, and ink. Carver is best known today for also inventing over 300 uses for peanuts. These included milk, oil, paper, and makeup.

George’s lasting reputation, though, did not come easily. As an African American living at a time when slavery     9     (end), he faced many unjust obstacles and dangers. However, through education and hard work, Carver achieved his goals. His passion for plants and people     10     (lead) him from slavery to success.