International Nurses Day is observed every year on May 12th. The day honours nurses for their     1     (commit) to medical health and service. The day also commemorates Florence Nightingale’s birth,     2     is widely regarded as the founder of modern nursing. As the world     3     (influence) by the deadly COVID-19, the healthcare workers have been working day and night to take care of     4     (affect) patients. Here are     5     (many) details about International Nurses Day.

Florence Nightingale was born on May 12th, 1820, and served     6     a trainer of nurses during the Crimean War. During the War, she     7     (manage) to care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. Her contributions gave nursing a favorable reputation. She became a symbol of Victorian culture,     8     (especial) as “The Lady with the Lamp”, who visited wounded soldiers at night. She was also regarded as     9     English reformer of modern nursing. She won the Royal Red Cross award in 1883 and Order of Merit award in 1907.

International Nurses Day was first celebrated in 1965 to mark the importance of nurses all over the world and their contribution towards the healthcare system. The day honours the nurses and urges people     10     (show) care and respect towards nurses.

A Long March-5 rocket,     1     (carry) the Chang’e-5 spacecraft, takes off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island province of Hainan on November 24,2020.

China’s Chang’e-5 probe( 探 测 器 ) decelerated and entered the lunar orbit on Saturday,     2    completed a vital step on its way to collect and return moon samples, the China National Space Administration (CNSA)     3    (announce).

After flying about 112 hours from Earth,     4     engine on the probe ignited (点火) when it was 400 km away from the surface     5     the moon at 8:58 p.m. and shut down after about 17 minutes, the CNSA said.

The probe performed the braking without incident and entered the lunar orbit     6    (successful ) according to the real-time monitoring data.

Chang’e-5 , which     7     (make) up of an orbiter, a lander, an ascender(上升器 ), and a returner, has carried out two orbital     8    (correction) during the Earth-Moon transfer, achieving its     9     (expect) goals.

Afterward, it will adjust the altitude and inclination (倾斜度) of its orbit around the moon. When the time is appropriate, it will land softly on the near side of the moon     10    (collect ) and return samples from the moon as planned.

Zhao Wenying, a 65-year-old woman from Zhejiang Province, recently became the world’s oldest person     1     (pass) the professional Rubik’s Cube (魔方) B-level exam. She also holds the world record for a person over the age of 60 to solve the Rubik’s Cube blindfolded (蒙上眼睛的).

Before retirements Zhao was a math teacher. After she stopped working, she began to solve the Rubik’s Cube as     2     hobby. As a green hand，Zhao learned a little     3     (slow) at first. Yet she was determined to get good     4     it. She found some online courses and spent more than four years     5     (learn) to solve the Rubik’s Cube by herself.

Later, she learned how to do it blindfolded. “When I first learned to solve it blindfolded, I was     6     (curiosity) about how other people did it. I just thought if they could do it, I could too,” Zhao said. Then she found a professional to teach her. Though it is difficult for people in     7     (they) 60s to learn to solve the Rubik’s Cube blindfolded, Zhao did her best to learn the     8     (skill). During her learning process, she used up four notebooks in all.

“Everyone     9     (have) a dream and you must realize your dreams through hard work. While realizing dreams is a moment, following dreams is a process     10     happiness truly lies,” Zhao said.

When Jeff was three years old, the     1     (absent) of mind of a taxi driver caused a terrible accident, resulting in Jeff's     2     (disable). One of his legs had to be cut     3    . In spite of this, he grew to be tough and     4     (ambition). At 19, he went to university, majoring in computer engineering, which he thought was suitable     5     his condition.Two years later, he succeeded in developing a computer system, which made students easily     6     (access) to the digital resources of the library.     7     many ways, he thought his experience and efforts turned out to be     8     (benefit) to his improvement. Last year, he     9     (employ) by a large company right after his     10     (graduate).

Henry was walking along the street     1     he found a     2    (tailor) shop.     3    (see) his shabby clothes, the clerks looked down     4     him and wanted to get him out quickly. When Henry     5    (tell) them he had only one bill and was afraid they didn’t have any small change, they laughed at him. Not until Henry took out     6     large bill he had mentioned did they realize what he said was true. Then the owner and the clerks did what they could     7     (please) Henry and said they didn’t worry about     8     (wait) a long time to get     9    (pay), trying to keep this     10    (wealth) customer.

Nicolaus Copernicus was very frightened when he found all his calculations led to the same     1     (conclude) that the earth was not the center of the solar system. Only if you put the sun there did the movements of the other planets in the sky make sense. Yet the     2     (power) church believed God had made the world and     3     that reason the earth must be the center of the solar system.

Copernicus collected observations of the stars and used all his mathematical knowledge     4     (explain) them. But only his new theory could do that. He worked on his theory, gradually improving it. He placed     5     fixed sun at the center of the solar system with the planets going round it and only the moon still going round the earth. He also suggested that the earth was spinning as it went round the sun. In 1514 he showed his theory     6     (private) to his friends, who encouraged him to publish his ideas, but Copernicus was cautious and was afraid of getting     7     (attack) by the Christian Church.

The Christian Church rejected his theory,    8     (say) it was against God's idea. Yet Copernicus' idea is now the basis on which all our ideas of the universe     9     (build). His theory replaced the Christian idea of gravity,    10     said things fell to earth because God created the earth as the center of the universe.

We seem to be losing the fight against landmines. While, every year, about 100,000 landmines are removed, 2,000,000 more     1     (bury) in the ground. Removing     2     (they) is very slow and dangerous work that must be done by hand. Someone has to use     3     metal detector to find the mines. This is very inaccurate as the metal detector finds all metal     4     (object), not just the mines, and it doesn't find new types of mine which are covered in plastic. Then he or she has to dig the mine out     5     (cautious) without setting it off.     6     (use) this method it could take centuries to rid the world     7     landmines.

This is where robotics comes in. At present, several countries     8     (work) on technological solutions to the landmines problem. One of the most exciting projects is at Chiba University, Japan,     9     a robot that looks something like an insect is being developed. It is about the size of a small car. It walks on 6 legs and when it finds a mine, it marks the spot with paint and sends data to a computer which can then map the mines. As well as being much     10     (safe) than finding mines by hand, the insect robot is also much faster.