A picture of 17-year-old Zhang Guimei has gone viral(疯传) on China’s social media. The _______ young girl with black-rimmed glasses and two short braids is beaming brightly into the camera.

Did she know, then, that she would _______ up to be the much respected founder and president of the Huaping High School for Girls in Lijiang, Southwest China’s Yunnan province? People are deeply _______ by the fresh-faced girl in the picture, which is very different from Zhang’s now aged _______ people know very well, as it tells a story of a woman who has devoted her life to pushing for the development of _______ and fighting poverty(贫困) in the countryside.

Born in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province in 1957, Zhang traveled to _______ at the age of 17 and has been helping girls from poor areas get education for over 40 years.

With the support of the Party and the government, she helped set up the country’s first senior high school to offer free education for girls from poor families. The school provides free education for girls who would otherwise have been unable to continue their studies after _______ their nine years of compulsory education.

_______ she had serious health problems, Zhang Guimei took morning classes with students for l2 years. She has _______ added up 110,000 kilometers visiting her students’ families over the years. Most of her money was spent on students. Since the school opened in 2008, it has ________ more than 1, 800 students attend universities and colleges.

“I was built to be a ________, not a creek, rising to the high peaks(山峰) with the small valleys at my feet. I was born to be ________, not worthless, standing on the shoulders of the giants, the petty cowards(儒夫) ________ me. “The motto of Huaping High School or Girls is also what Zhang Guimei always tries to follow.

Zhang Guimei received an award for being one of China’s inspiring role models by TV program Touching China2020 this year. And the President Xi Jiping ________ an award to Zhang Gumei during a grand gathering to mark the nation’s achievements in helping reduce poverty and praise excellent poverty ________ at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Zhang Guimei is a common person but she is also a national hero.

We spend a lot of time sleeping at night and being active during the day. This is our second nature. That’s because we’re under the control of the body clocks inside nearly every cell. Also, our mood, strength, hormone levels, body temperature, metabolism and even the risk of a heart attack are all changing all the time every day. Our body clocks, however, are not controlled by cogs and pendulums. Instead, it’s the gene activity over 24 hours that keeps our body’s time. Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young from the USA found these genes.

Dr. Michael Hastings, a circadian rhythm (昼夜节律) scientist in Cambridge, said more attention should be paid to this discovery.

Nobody now doubts the importance of our body clocks. Ask someone who doesn’t have a good habit of resting and working what goes wrong with his body clock.

Those who always live in this way may take the risk of having a lot of diseases, from cancer to diabetes, but understanding how the body’s clock works is also unlocking new ideas, like taking medicines at the time of day when they will have the biggest influence on the body.

In the middle of the night, Mary woke up. Heavy rain had started falling again, and the wind was blowing violently round the wall of the old house. Suddenly, she heard the crying again. This time she decided to discover who it was. She left her room, and in the darkness followed the crying sound, round corners and through doors, up and down stairs, to other side of the big house. At last, she found the right room. She pushed the door open and went in.

It was a big room with beautiful old furniture and pictures. In the large bed was a boy, who looked tired and cross, with a thin, white, tearful face. He stared at Mary.

“Who are you?” whispered, “Are you a dream?”

“No, I’m not. I am Mary Lennox, Mr. Craven’s my uncle.” “He’s my father.” said the boy. “I am Colin Craven.” “No one ever told me he had a son,” said Mary, very surprised.

“Well, no one ever told me you’d come to live here. I am ill, you see. I don’t want people to see me and talk about me. If I live, I may have a crooked back like my father, but I’ll probably die.”

“What a strange house this is.” said Mary. “So many secrets! Does your father come and see you often?”

“Not often. He doesn’t like seeing me because it makes him remember my mother. She died when I was born, so he almost hates me, I think.”

“Why do you say you’re going to die?” asked Mary.

“I’ve always been ill. I’ve nearly died several times, and my back’s never strong. My doctor feels confident I’m going to die. But he’s my father’s cousin, and very poor, ▲

Then he’d got all the money when my father dies. He gives me medicine and tells me to rest. We had a grand doctor from London once, who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well. But I hate fresh air. And another thing, all the servants (仆人) have to do what I want, because if I’m angry, I become ill. “

Mary thought she liked this boy, although he seemed so strange.

—Chosen from The Secret Garden

Sports do us good in many respect. It goes without saying that taking exercise can build up our physical strength. There are many popular sports, here we will introduce some of them to you.

The World’s Crazy Sport: Soccer

Game in which two 11-member teams try to get a ball into the other team’s goal, using any part of the body except the hands and arms. Only the goalkeeper, when standing within the penalty area in front of the goal, may use hands and arms. The game’s first uniform set of rules was put in place in 1863, when England’s Football Association was created. Professional leagues began appearing in the 1880s, first in England and then in other countries. The Federation International de Football Association (FIFA) was founded in 1904, and has hosted the World Cup every four years since 1930. Football has been included in the Olympic Games since 1908. Now played on all continents in over 150 nations, with over 40 million registered players, it is the world’s most popular ball game.

The World’s Fastest Racket Sport: Badminton

As far back as the 5th century BC, the Chinese were playing a Ti Jian Zi, or shuttle-kicking a game played with the feet. The shuttlcock (毽子) was there, but it remains unclear if it led to the game of battledore (毽球) that appeared about five centuries later in China, Japan, India and Greece. The battledores were the early forms of today’s rackets.

Badminton was contested as a demonstration sport during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Men and women compete at the Olympics in both singles and doubles. It is recorded that the fastest speed of badminton is 332 kilometres per hour which is made by Chinese double men’s players Fu Huaifeng.

A Small Ball Creates a stir: Table Tennis

Table tennis developed in the late 19th century, although it is still unclear where it started. In January, 1926, five nations-Austria, England, Germany, Hungary, and Sweden-met to form the International Table Tennis Federation. The World Championships began in the same year.

The sport is widely practiced throughout the world. Table tennis made its Olympic first appearance as a full medal sport during the Olympic Games in Seoul. It was never competed at the Olympics as a demonstration sport. Since the late 1950s, the Chinese have been by far the greatest country in table tennis.

There are four table tennis events on the Olympics programme: singles and doubles for men and women. The mixed doubles event is not held at the Olympics, but it has been an event at the World Championships since 1926.

All primary and secondary school students in China have now been asked not to bring cellphones to school. Its aim is to protect the students’ eyesight and keep them from losing themselves in the Internet and online games.

If students must have a cellphone at school for some reason, they must get their teachers’ and parents’ agreement. And they should hand in their cellphones to teachers when they arrive at school. The phones will be kept together and should never be allowed into classrooms.

Schools should not ask students to do homework through cellphones, and they should set up public phones and teacher hot lines for communication between parents and students. Schools should also set out rules for the management and custody (保管) of cell phones brought to schools!

It has been more than a year since COVID-19’s pandemic broke out. People all over the world experienced a great deal of p    71     as a result of the influence of it. Many people lost their health and e    72     their lives.

China has achieved a great success in the war a    73     the terrible disease. However, in o    74     to achieve a greater success, a vaccine(疫苗) that may prevent the disease s    75     must be developed.

L    76    , the vaccine has been developed successfully in China. Zhong Nanshan called on the Chinese people to get vaccinated. “Don’t wait, i    77     the people outside China are all vaccinated, the Chinese people may have to f    78     the great danger again,” he said.

Zhong Nanshan hoped at l    79     70-80 percent of people in China would be vaccinated by the end of this year. He is s    80     that the goal of the universal vaccination will be finally achieved.