In 1954, she was elected to the first National People’s Congress and, over the next several     1    , she held many important positions. Her heart, however, was     2    . She was most interested     3     tending patients,     4     medical research on care for women and children, and training the next generation of doctors.

As a five-year-old girl, Lin Qiaozhi was deeply     1     by her mother’s death. At age 18, instead of following the traditional path of     2     like the majority of girls, she chose to study     3    . “Why should girls learn so much? Finding a good husband should be their final goal!” her brother     4    , thinking of the high tuition     5    . She     6    , “I’d rather stay single to study all my life!”

In 2009, Whitacre received a video of a girl who was singing one of his     1    . Inspired, he asked his fans to make videos, which he then    2     together into one     3    . His first virtual choir, “Lux Aurumque”, had 185 singers from 12 different countries. It has received millions of views on the Internet. Since then, the virtual choir has become a worldwide     4    .

Festivals are celebrated all around the world. They have a wide     1     of origins, such as the seasons of the year, religions, famous     2    , and important events. Every festival has its different customs and     3     charms.

There are various reasons why people compose poetry. Some poems tell a story or describe a certain image in the readers’ mind. Others try to convey certain f    1     such as joy and sorrow. The distinctive characteristics of poetry often include economic use of words, descriptive and v    2     language, integrated imagery, l    3     devices such as similes and metaphors, and arrangements of words, lines, rhemes, and rhythm. Poets use many different forms of poetry to e    4     themselves. Now we will look at a few of the simpler forms.

Some of the first poems a young child learns in English are nursery r    5    . They are usually the traditional poems or f    6     songs. The language of these rhymes, like Poem A, is to the p    7     but has a storyline. Many children enjoy nursery rhymes because they rhyme, have a strong rhythm, and often repeat the same words. The poems may not make s    8     and even seem contradictory, but they are easy to learn and r    9    . By playing with the words in nursery rhymes children learned about language.

One characteristic of hybrids is that they usually a    1     a higher yield than c    2     crops. However, whether it was possible to develop a hybrid of self-pollinating plants such as rice was a matter of great d    3    . The common a    4     then was that it could not be done. Through i    5     effort, Yuan o    6     enormous technical d    7     to develop the first hybrid rice that could be used for f    8     in 1974. This hybrid e    9     farmers to e    10     their output greatly.

When Michael Jordan’s feet left the ground, time seemed to stand still. The player who became known as “Air Jordan” changed basketball with his graceful moves and jumps. Jordan’s skills were     1    , but the mental     2     that he showed made him     3    . In the final second s of a game, Jordan always seemed to find a way to win. Jordan says that the secret to his success is learning from his     4    .