“Life is precious. ...To a person nothing is more precious than their life, and if they entrust me with that life, how could I r    1     that trust, saying I’m cold, hungry, or tired?” These words of Dr Lin Qiaozhi give us a l    2     into the heart of this a    3    woman, and what carried her through a life of hard c    4    ．

As a five­year­old girl, Lin Qiaozhi was deeply a    5     by her mother’s death. At age 18, instead of following the t    6    path of marriage like the majority of girls, she chose to study m    7    . “Why should girls learn so much? Finding a good husband should be their final g    8    !” her brother complained, thinking of the high tuition fees. She r    9    , “I’d rather stay s    10     to study all my life!”