On March 3, 2022, when Jiang Mengnan received the award of Person Touching China for 2021, she said she most wanted to thank her     1    .

In 1992, Jiang was born into a family     2     Hunan. When she was 6 months old, she lost her hearing and her world became     3     from then on. Her parents began to teach her to read people’s lips(唇读)and speak. It was a slow process(过程)，but her parents never thought about     4     up.

    5     Jiang was old enough, she went to a normal primary school. She said     6     was difficult to have lessons at first. During lessons, teachers would often     7     on the blackboard with their backs to the students, so Jiang missed much of the content(内容). She had to copy down everything and study alone after class to keep up with her classmates. Her hard work finally made her     8     top student.

In 2011, she got a high score in the gaokao and went to Jilin University. Now, she studies at Tsinghua University’s School of Life Sciences for her doctorate(博士学位).

“I’m always thankful for the respect(尊重) I received from my parents, teachers and friends,” she said. “They     9     give me special attention(注意) for my imperfection(缺陷), which means I’ve never seen myself as     10     from anyone else.”

Zhang Yugun is head of Heihumiao Primary School in Henan Province. He is a person     1     of love and responsibility (责任).

After graduation in 2001, Zhang chose to work in the poor countryside. Over the past 21 years, he has seen many teachers come and go because     2     the poor conditions in the village. However, he has stayed on and made every effort to help the children deal with their problems.

One winter, travelling on the mountain road was much more difficult than usual. The school was about to start, but those students’ books were still in a town outside the village. Then Zhang and another teacher left early in the morning with a shoulder pole (扁担). They carried     3     kilos of books. When they got to the school, they were both covered in mud (泥), but the books were protected well. In 2006, a cement road (水泥路) was built in the village. So Zhang started to carry the books with a motorbike. Although four motorbikes broke down, he never stopped.

In order to provide better care for the students whose parents had left the village to find work in the city, Zhang asked his wife to give     4     her job to help cook and clean for the students.     5     to the teachers like Zhang, the students in Heihumiao Primary School are able to learn at school and hope for a brighter future.