One day, a baby girl called Helen felt uncomfortable and she nearly died. Luckily her life     1    (save), but she could no longer see or hear. Because of that, she also found it very difficult to speak.

Before her     2    (eight) birthday, the family found her a private teacher-Anne Sullivan. Anne was always     3    (patient) teaching Helen, especially those     4     she was interested in. As a result, Helen soon learned to read and write in Braille which is a special language for the blind. She also learned to read people’s mouths by     5    (put) her fingers on them. This is a skill that very few people can have. She has the     6    (able) to express herself     7    (exact) and communicate with others well.

Helen became     8     successful scholar (学者) . While she was still at college, she wrote The Story of My Life. It soon became such a success that she got enough money to buy her own house.

After she     9    (die) in 1968, an organization was set up in her name to help the blind in the developing world. Today, Helen Keller International organization has become one of the     10    (big) organizations working with blind people overseas.

An anxious 18-year-old Peng Lanxi got his     1     (admit) letter from Hunan University of Science and Technology on July 26, bringing his dream closer—making prosthetic limbs (假肢) more advanced and     2     (access) to people like him.

Peng lost his legs in a car accident in 2005, leaving him     3     (whole) unable to move around.     4     (learn) to walk using just his hands for years, he now enjoys life as much as the teenagers around him. On his wheelchair he plays basketball and badminton. “I believe that obstacles (障碍) are there     5     (conquer). Someone says that life is like a mirror, and we get the best results     6     we smile at it,” Peng says.

His story, which     7     (view) more than 19 million times up till now, has gone viral (在网上快速传播的) on social media platform Sina Weibo and he wins admiration from its users     8     his courage, determination and hard work. Lu Ming, director of the university’s School of Information and Electrical Engineering, says that the school will help Peng to pursue his dream—to be a prosthetics engineer, a career     9     will in time change lives.

Peng is not alone. According to the China Disabled Persons’ Federation, 14,559 students facing physical challenges entered college last year. From 2016 to 2020, about 57,500 students with special needs enrolled at universities,     10     more than 50 percent increase compared with the 2011—2015 period.

Quan Peng, a man in a wheelchair, set off from Beijing in August 2014, and     1    (visit) 43 cities and towns in five provinces so far. In the next six months, he hopes to make    2     to China’s southern tip — his final destination.

“I see it as a battle.” Quan said, “I’m not just battling against my disability,     3     also against discrimination (歧视).”

Quan has traveled on a tight budget. He has slept in a tent or in his chair, and camped out in hospitals, banks and public toilets. The few times he tried to stay in hotels, but he     4    (turn) away. “Restaurant owners would refuse     5    (take) me in because they see me as a beggar; I go to a hotel and they would tell me they are     6    (full) booked.”

Quan,     7     was housebound for eight years, wants to use his wheelchair trip to raise     8    (aware) of the need of disabled people around the country. Even in cities like Beijing and Shanghai, which are     9    (well) equipped for the disabled, Quan says he was not able to take a bus. “I would like to try my best to let people know that we are able to create value. We are not useless people    10    (stay) in bed all day long,” said Quan.