Amundsen was the first     1     on 8 September, 1911. He had teams of dogs     2     the sledges and all his men were on skis. Because of this, he made rapid progress.

Even Amundsen was moved by Scott’s death saying “Captain Scott left a record, for honesty, for sincerity, for     3    , for everything that makes a man”. Scott had failed to win the race to the Pole, but the great courage shown by Scott and his men made them heroes.

The reason     4     this was difficult was that the team had limited resources. They did not have enough staff, and the laboratory     5     they worked had poor air quality. However, after hundreds of failed experiments, they     6     came across a promising chemical.

Reeve became a     7     and energetic advocate for people with back injuries and disabilities raising millions of dollars     8     support of medical research.

With a sense of energy and commitment, Reeve undertook an intense exercise programme to help him achieve this goal. He     9     in a wide range of exercises     10     to rebuild muscle, and made remarkable progress.

She spent years     1     and recording their daily activities. … Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months     2     she allowed to begin her project. … She is leading a busy life but she says: “Once I stop, it all comes     3     in and I remember the chimps in laboratories.…”

To their credit the four countries     1     work together in some areas（eg, the currency and international relations）, but they will have very different institutions.

England is the largest of the four countries, and for,     2     it is divided roughly into three zones. . . You find most of the population     3     in the south, but most of the industrial cities in the Midlands and the North of England. Although, nationwide, these cities are not as large as     4     as China, they have world-famous football teams and some of them even have two!