On May 15, 2023, a 16-year-old girl from Changsha, Hunan province made new history. Xu Zhuoyuan became the     1     (young) Chinese girl to succeed in reaching the top of Mount Qomolangma. The year 2023 marks the 70th anniversary (周年) of     2     (冠词) first human being achieving the impossible dream and that makes it more meaningful.

Mountain climbing is one of the world’s most dangerous     3     (sport), and one of the most popular places for this is Mount Qomolangma. It is about 8, 848.86     4     (metre) high, so it is very dangerous to climb. Thick clouds, heavy snowstorms and freezing weather conditions make the climbing more difficult. However, these difficulties didn’t scare Xu away. She wanted to challenge     5    (she). She has been training hard to make her dream come true.

On April 15, she left Changsha for Nepal (尼泊尔) . On April 28, she arrived at the base camp and made preparations     6     (介词) the huge task. At 10 p. m. Beijing time on May 14, Xu began her journey from Camp 4. The climbing was very hard, and it     7     (take) her 10 hours to reach the top.

    8     (连词) she is quite young, Xu has already climbed five mountains over 5, 000 meters in China. When she was 12 years old, she said on Hunan TV, “I will climb Qomolangma.” Four years     9     (late), she kept her promise. Her spirit shows us that we should challenge ourselves in the face of difficulties. It also shows that we should never give up     10     (try) to achieve our dreams.

On November 29th, 2022, the Shenzhou-15 spaceship took three astronauts, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu, into space to carry out the Shenzhou-15 space mission. The three astronauts will stay in space for about six     1     (month).

Deng Qingming is the last one of the country’s     2     (one) group of 14 astronauts to go into space. He worked hard and never gave up his dream of going into space, and       3     (final), he made it, at the age of 56.

Deng was born in a farming family in Jiangxi. He has four     4     (young) brothers and sisters. As a hard-working student, he     5     (join) the PLA Air Force in June 1984 and started training     6     a pilot. In 1998, Deng became one of the 14 astronauts of our country.

In the following years, Deng spent almost all of his time     7     (train). He tried hard to take every chance to fly into space. He was a backup crew member for the Shenzhou IX, X and XI missions.

    8     the road to space flight was really difficult, Deng never thought of giving up. Now     9     (he) dream came true. However, he said, “The     10     (successful) of the mission is more important than my dream.”