Lin Qiaozhi     1    (know) as the “mother of ten thousand babies”because she had delivered over 50, 000 babies in her lifetime. When she was 18 years old, she chose to study medicine instead of following the traditional path of marriage like the majority of girls.     2     graduating from Peking Union Medical College, she immediately became the first woman     3    (hire) as a resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. A few years     4    (late), she was sent to study in Europe and then in the US. Her American colleagues wanted her to stay in the US,     5     she refused because she wanted to work for her motherland.

Then during the war, she     6    (open) her own clinic to help the patients. After the foundation of the new People's Republic of China, she held many important     7     (position), but she was more interested     8     tending patients. Dr Lin didn't retire     9     the day she died, 22 April 1983,     10    (leave) all her savings to a kindergarten and a fund for new doctors.

This year, Zhang Guimei sent 150 female students    1    college from a free all-girls high school she had started in 2008 in southwest China's deep mountains. For the past 13 years, a total of 1,954 female students     2    (graduate) from this school, the first and only one of its kind in the country."To educate a girl is to change the destiny(命运) of three     3    (generation)," Zhang said.     4     64-year-old teacher from southwest China's Yunnan Province was presented with the July 1 Medal by Xi Jinping at a ceremony in Beijing on Tuesday. Because of her efforts to improve female education in China, more girls can change their destiny.When the People's Republic of China     5    (found) in 1949, female illiteracy(文盲) was much higher than that of their male counterparts(同行). In the 1950s, the Chinese government launched campaigns     6     helped some 16 million females become educated. In recent decades, wiping out illiteracy and     7    (improve) the reading skills of women is regarded as one of the     8    (high) priorities(优先考虑的事) in China, according to the government's guideline for helping the country's females. The female illiteracy rate for those above age 15 has decreased from     9    (rough) 90% in the early 1950s to 7% in 2019.In 2021, China scored 0.973 in the Global Gender Gap Report     10    (release) by the World Economic Forum (with a score of 1 being completely equal).

It was just after sunrise on a June morning. “Nicolo,”    1     real name cannot be exposed to the public because of Italy’s privacy laws, finished working the whole night at a factory in Turin. As he often did, he stopped by the “after work auction (拍卖)” run by the Italian police where things found on the trains    2    (sell) to the highest bidder. There Nicolo spotted two paintings he thought would look nice above his dining room table. Nicolo finally won the paintings for $32.

When Nicolo retired and went to live in Sicily, he brought the paintings    3     him. He hung them above the same table he had moved from Turin. His son, age 15, who had taken an art appreciation class, thought that there was something unusual about the one with a young girl     4    (sit) on a garden chair. It was signed (签名) “Bonnato”,    5    when he researched it, he only found “Bonnard,” a French    6    (paint) he had never heard of. He bought a book and was surprised    7    (find) a picture of the artist Pierre Bonnard sitting on the same chair in the same garden as his father’s painting.

“That’s the garden in our picture,” Nicolo’s son told his father. They    8    (eventual) learned that the painting they owned was called “The Girl with Two Chairs.” After studying the other painting, they learned that it was actually Paul Gauguin’s “Still Life of Fruit on a Table with a Small Dog.”    9    family called the Italian Culture Ministry; the official confirmed that the paintings were     10    (origin) and worth as much as $50 million.

I still remember our physics teacher     1     gave us a challenge that involved making a paper plane of any shape. The only objective was to get it to fly as far as possible. Standing at the starting line, one of my classmates took a piece of flat paper, crumpled (把…捏成一团) it up, and     2     (throw) it down the way. He beat the class with ease. Some of the students got mad and said that he cheated, but the physics teacher     3     (clear) explained it could be any shape and that a paper ball was indeed a shape.