【推荐1】Martha McChesney Berry (7 October 1865 – 27 February 1942) was an United States educator and the founder of Berry College in Rome, Georgia.

In Mount Berry, Georgia, people find a group of schools     1    (build) specially for mountain children. The schools, as well as the mountain     2    , are named     3     Martha Berry.

Martha Berry was born in 1866.     4    (luck) than most Georgian mountain children, she received education. But she never forgot other children of the mountains     5     parents couldn't afford to send them to school. In 1902 Martha Berry started     6     school with only five pupils. Now, ninety years later, there are a score of Berry schools in the area, with a total of over one thousand students and a     7    (wait) list of about five thousand.

Martha Berry in her later years received many medals and honors     8     what she had done for the poor mountain children of Georgia, and in 1931 she     9    (name) one of the most important women in the United States. She never stopped working for the mountain children     10     her death in 1942.

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What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you think of wheat straw? Most people would probably just see     1     as a pile of waste in a farmer’s field. However, Wu Cui,     2    intangible (无形的) cultural inheritor, can turn the straw into beautiful and eye-catching functional artworks. The earliest straw-weaving products     3    (discover) at Hemudu Cultural Ruins in Zhejiang province. In 2008, straw weaving was listed     4     a national intangible cultural heritage.

Wu explains the process of straw weaving: selection of materials is the first step of a complicated, time-consuming and labor-intensive process that can take     5     (week) or even months to complete. You need to sketch the piece on paper,     6     requires drawing skills. Next comes weaving, shaping and     7     (preserve) of the work. Even by finishing that process, it does not mean that you will always create a good piece of work, and the hardest part is     8    (make) it lifelike.

When     9    (ask) about her plans, Wu says she wants to dig     10    (deep) into local traditional culture and create more cultural creative products by developing the straw-weaving technique.

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Lin Qiaozhi,     1    (know) as the “mother of ten thousand babies”, had delivered over 50, 000 babies in her lifetime.

When she was 18 years old, she chose     2    (study) medicine instead of following the     3    (tradition) path of marriage like the majority of girls. After graduating     4     Peking Union Medical College, she immediately became the first woman to be hired as     5     resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. A few years later, she     6    (send) to study in Europe and then in the US. Her American colleagues wanted her to stay in the US,     7     she refused because she wanted to work for her motherland.

       Then during the war, she    8    (open) her own clinic to help the patients. After the foundation of the new People’s Republic of China, she held many important     9    (position), but she was more interested in tending patients. Dr Lin didn’t retire until the day she died, 22 April 1983,     10    (leave) all her savings to a kindergarten and a fund for new doctors.