As Dr Lin Qiaozhi said, “To a person nothing is     1    (precious) than their life…” These words of her give us a look into the heart of this amazing woman, and     2     carried her through a life of hard choices.

At age 18, she chose to study medicine instead of following the traditional path of     3    (marry) like the majority of girls. At age 26, she was hired as     4     resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital     5    (immediate) after she graduated. Within six months, she was assigned to a higher position     6     usually took four years to achieve. After working for a few years, she was sent to study abroad, where she     7    (reject) the offer from her foreign colleagues. She wanted to serve the women and children at home.

In 1941, she became the first Chinese woman ever     8    (appoint) director of the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital, but later, the department was closed because of the war. So she opened a private clinic to help the people in need and charged very low     9    (fee) and often reduced costs for poor patients.

The new People’s Republic of China saw Dr Lin Qiaozhi playing a key role. Though Lin Qiaozhi never married, she was known as the “mother of ten thousand babies”,     10    (deliver) over 50,000 babies in her lifetime.

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I can well remember that I was once asked to deliver a speech titled “A Real Test in My Life” before the whole class at the age of 9! You can imagine how     1     (terrible) shy I was with so many eyes       2       (fix) upon me. I had no     3     (choose) but to prepare for it, though. First of all, I was to draft the speech, which was just a piece of cake for me, a good writer. But the hardest part     4     (lie) in my oral presentation from my memory— for to read from the paper was not allowed. The real moment began     5         I stood on the platform with my legs trembling and my mind blank. But my listeners were waiting patiently without any signs of rushing me. Gradually I found myself back,     6     (deliver) my speech with difficulty. After what seemed to be a hundred years, I found my audience applauding— I made     7    ! From then on, my fear of talking before an audience disappeared. Actually with my     8     (confident) building up, I now turn out to be a great speaker. Looking back, I know the greatest difficulty on our way         9     success is our fear. Overcome it     10     we will be able to achieve our goals.

No one is sure how many Americans belong to reading groups called book clubs.Yet    1    (publisher) and bookstores report that more and more people throughout the United States are joining    2    (they)．

Most of the clubs work the same way.Members read the same book at the same time.Then they meet to talk about the book.Members may be friends or people    3    live near each other.Some Americans belong to reading groups on    4    Internet.These groups include people around the world who communicate about books they read.They send electronic mails instead of gathering    5    (discuss) books.

Most reading groups study books by    6    (variety) writers.However，some groups read the work of a single writer，    7    (usual) one that has been famous for a while.Other groups may    8    (name) after an important person in the work of the writer，    9    a Sherlock Holmes Club.Members of these book clubs often are experts about their    10    (choose) reading materials.One member of a Holmes reading group，for example，can identify almost every person in every Sherlock Holmes story.

The art of paper-cutting in China may date back to the second century, since paper    1    (invent)by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. As paper became more affordable, paper0cutting became one of the most important    2    (type) of Chinese folk art. Later,    3     different regions adopting their own cultural styles, this art form spread to other parts of the world.    4     (usual), the artworks are made of red paper, as red is associated with    5    (happy) in Chinese culture, but other colors are also used.

With    6    (it) long history, paper-cutting,    7    originated in China, has been very popular among the ordinary Chinese people. People put up papercuts on walls, windows and doors at wedding ceremonies or festivals     8    (strengthen) the cheerful atmosphere.

Chinese papercuts are rich in content. The auspicious（吉祥的）designs symbolize good luck and the avoidance of evil. The child, lotus and bat designs suggest a family with    9    large number of children and grandchildren. Birds, livestock, fruit, fish and worms are also familiar objects    10    (accept) by Chinese farmers. In a word, papercuts used in different occasions have different meanings.

Passenger pigeons once     1    （fly）over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers. Written     2    （account）from the 18th and 19^th centuries described flocks（群）so large that they darkened the sky for hours.

It     3    （calculate）that when its population reached its     4    （high）point, there were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons—a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of     5    total bird population in the United States, making it     6    （true）the most abundant bird in the world. However, the population decreased because of     7    （commerce）hunters who killed them by the thousands. Americans' need for wood scattered the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north ,     8    cold temperatures and spring storms contributed to their decline.

In 1897, the state of Michigan tried to pass a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons, only     9    （find）that by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last of them, known affectionately     10    Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on September 1, 1914.

Perhaps it is time to turn down your smart phones to stop your hearing being harmed without being noticed. The UN sounded a warning Tuesday     1     more than one billion young people are in danger of damaging their hearing through overuse of smart phones and other audio devices ,     2     (suggest) new safety standards (标准) for safe volume (音量) levels.

Young people tend to fall into risky listening habits easily. Around half of those     3     the ages of 12 and 35, or 1.1 billion people, are at risk as a result of long hours of enjoying loud sounds, including music they listen to through     4     (person) audio devices, the UN health agency said.

At present, about five percent of the global population, or some 466 million people, 34 million children included, suffer from disabling hearing loss. WHO considers a volume above 85 decibels (分贝) for eight hours or 100 decibels for 15 minutes     5     (high) unsafe levels.

The organization is calling for parental as well as automatic volume controls on audio devices     6     (prevent) dangerous use.

While some smart phones and other audio devices already offer some of these features, the UN would like to see     7     uniform standard used to help protect against disabling hearing loss.

“Think of it like driving on a highway, but without a speedometer in your car or a speed limit,” Shelly Chadha of the WHO told     8     (report) in Geneva. “    9     we've advised is that your smart phones     10     ( fit) with a speedometer, with a measurement system which tells you how much sound you're getting and tells you if you are going over the limit.”

A growing number of young Chinese people are looking to the past for fashion suggestions. If you look     1     (close) around your city, you might spot Hanfu, the traditional clothing of the Han people. In a recently published report, more than 2 million Hanfu outfits     2     (sell) in 2018 on line. The number of buyers increased by 92 percent     3     (compare) to 2017, with the average age of buyers twenty-one.     4     has this traditional clothing become trendy? Some young people say it’s a costume for relaxation and that dressing in Hanfu is a way for them     5     (escape) the troubles of real life, while     6     like Hanfu because of the culture behind it. They regard it     7     a way to reconnect with traditions. Its wide sleeves, crossed     8     (collar) and flowing robes (长袍) bring people back to ancient times. That’s probably why some fans bring the traditional clothing abroad. Sohu reported on a Bilibili vlogger who climbed the     9     (high) mountain in Germany wearing Hanfu this summer. This vlogger received praise from tourists. “Many Chinese people are fond of Hanfu, as it helps them establish their     10     (nation) identity and belonging,” Zhang Yiwu, a professor at Peking University, told China Daily.

Certainly, there are many nonverbal     1    (clue) that have completely different meanings in different cultures. One of the most important means of nonverbal communication in any culture     2    (be) eye contact. Eye contact,     3    simply refers to one person looking another person in the eye, seems to have strong implications in almost every culture though these implications vary     4    (wide) across the globe!

What does eye contact mean in the United States? Here, if you have good eye contact with a person, it generally implies that you are     5    (concern) with what that person is saying. If you look down or away from a person rather than meeting him or her, you are considered to be either unfocused     6    uninterested in him or her. Also, if you refuse     7    （meet) eye contact with a person, you may be considered to lack     8    (confident).

On the other hand, a person who makes eye contact with another person     9    (think)   to be confident and bold and courage is always considered a good quality! So,     10    summary, making eye contact is generally considered a good thing in the United States.