Queen Elizabeth II was farewelled at an hour-long state funeral in London’s Westminster Abbey, with her body later moved to her final     1    (rest) place.

About 2,000 people attended the funeral, most notably the Queen’s children: King Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward. Her grandchildren,     2    (include) Prince William, Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice and Princes Eugenie, were in attendance. Kate and William’s     3    (young) child of three, Prince Louis, stayed home.

As well as foreign royals and state     4    (official), a number of famous faces attended the service. Besides, Peep Show actor Sophie Winkleman also attended, because she is royal by     5    (marry); her husband is Lord Frederick Windsor,     6     only son of the Queen’s cousin.

The service     7    (conduct) by the Dean of Westminster while new British Prime Minister and the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth both read lessons.

On the top of the coffin (棺材) was a wreath of flowers     8    (choose) by King Charles     9     honor of his mother; one of the flowers was myrtle (香桃木),     10     was used in the Queen’s 1953 wedding bouquet. A card from Charles read: “In loving and devoted memory.”

Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ will be buried alongside her late husband, Prince Philip.

Exceptional beauty, extraordinary grace and e    1     artistry are qualities     2     Tai Lihua to dance on the great stages of the world in more than 40 countries. If that were not exceptional enough,     3     is more is that Tai Lihua is     4     deaf.

The Battle of El Alamein,     5     in the deserts of North Africa, is seen     6     one of the decisive     7     of World War II. The Battle of El Alamein was primarily fought between two of the outstanding commanders Montgomery and Rommel. The Allied victory at El Alamein     8     to the     9     of the Afrika Korps and the German surrender in North Africa     10     May 1943.

3 . During World War II, a young nurse, Irena Sendler, risked her life to save over 2,500 children. Back in 2008, she was ________with some of the children whom she had saved. They wanted to ________her face to face for what she did.

Irena was only 29 when the war began, and at the time, she was ________at the Welfare Department of the Warsaw municipality in Poland. This gave her the perfect ________to help Jewish people being targeted by the Nazis.

In the 1940s, the Nazis ________the country’s Jewish population to the Warsaw ghetto. The ghetto was meant to ________Jews from the general population, and inside, Jews had to live in ________conditions. By 1942, nearly everyone in the ghetto had been deported (驱逐) to concentration camps and killed.

When Irena heard that, she decided to ________Jewish people. Using her credentials(证件) as a social worker, she was able to get ________to go into the ghetto. Then, she ________to take as many children out of the ghetto as she could secretly, ________over 2,500 of them between 1935 and 1943.

To get the kids out, Irena and her team would ________them in ambulances, lead them through underground sewer(下水道) networks and passageways, or wheel them out in suitcases or boxes. She eventually became one of the main ________behind Zegota, a secret organization that called itself the Council for Aid to Jews.

The Gestapo(盖世太保) ________what Irena was doing in 1943, and when she learned they were ________her, she wrote the names of the rescued children on cigarette papers, put them into two glass bottles and ________them in a friend’s garden. After the war, these bottles were dug up so that the children could be reunited with their families. ________, most of the families died in concentration camps, so many of the kids ________saw their loved ones again.

The Gestapo ________Irena and wanted to kill her, but finally she was saved by Zegota.

Irena received plenty of ________for her bravery, including the Gold Cross of Merit. Though she died later, we continue to honor her memory to this day.