1 . Stephen Hawking remembered by his research student

Stephen was not so famous when I began my PhD at Cambridge in 1972, but his brilliance was already clear to his peers. On becoming his research student, I found it rather discouraging when I was informed by one of my tutors that Stephen was the brightest person in the department. ___________, it soon became evident that my relationship with him would not be the usual type of supervisor-student relationship. In those days, before he had his caretakers’ group of nurses and assistants, students would necessarily have to help him in various ways___________ his disability. This was not an tough task, but it did mean that my relationship with him became quite ___________. Indeed, I shared an office with him, lived with his family for a while and ___________ him as he travelled around the world, giving talks and collecting medals.

I soon discovered some of Stephen’s unique ___________. The first, of course, was that he was very smart. Students are probably always in respect of their supervisors and with Stephen the respect was even greater. Indeed, on matters of physics, I always regarded him as an oracle(圣人), just a few words from him generating insights that would have taken weeks to___________on my own. However, Stephen was only human and not all encounters led to inspiration. Once I asked a question about something that was ___________ me. He thought about it silently. His eyes then closed and I was even more impressed with myself because he was clearly having to think about it very deeply. Only after some time did it become clear that he had fallen asleep. Nowadays, I also sometimes fall asleep while talking to students, so I recall this incident with ___________.

I also learned about Stephen’s stubbornness and ___________ to continue doing things for himself as long as possible, despite the continuous progress of his illness. For example, because he had an office in both the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics and the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, I also had offices in both places. I recall that he sometimes gave me a lift (probably illegally!) between the two places in his three-wheeled invalid car. I found this rather ____________ because I thought he drove faster than was safe. Later, he had to discontinue the use of the car but he never lost his drive and the desire to travel as far and wide as possible. One ____________ is he didn’t live long enough to achieve his dream of going into space.

I’m often asked where Stephen stands in the pantheon(名流群) of great physicists. There are many ways of being a great physicist and they cannot be ____________ like runners in an Olympic race. Stephen himself never ____________ to have the status of Newton or Einstein, but I strongly disagree with people who suggest that his scientific contributions have been ____________ because of his symbolic status. His disability was clearly a factor in his becoming so famous, but I doubt any other ____________ physicist will achieve the honor of being buried next to Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey after his death.

2 . Zou Shengyu isn’t your average street photographer. She’s a breakout star on Chinese video platform Bilibili, _______ by influencers and fashion models.

The 6-year-old — known to her fans as Shengsheng — has become _______ on Chinese social media in recent months.

A vlog series showing her capturing (拍摄) fashionable _______ people has attracted over 3million views. In the videos, Shengsheng _______ approaches a well-dressed young woman on the street and asks: “Hi, miss! Can I take your photo?”   She then _______ to shoot away on her camera, directing her subjects — who often _______ over her — with surprising confidence. Fans have been won over by her precocity (早熟), but also the _______of her work.

Though she only picked up a camera in 2019, Shengsheng has already developed a signature_______. Her photos always have a warm orange tone. She _______ to capture her subjects in a relaxed pose, with broad smiles on their faces.

The ________ of Shengsheng’s success has been her father, Zou Yupeng. A commercial photographer by trade, he says his daughter was ________ to follow his passion.

Zou is a________ teacher. Even in the vlog videos, he can barely hide his anger when the little girl is unable to ________ his professional standards.

According to Zou, his daughter has already used up over 110 rolls of film taking photos. But the father insists he has no________ of pushing Shengsheng to become a professional photographer. He says he just wants to teach her to be ________.

3 . After winning gold with three perfect scores in the women’s 10-meter diving on Thursday, the 14-year-old girl, Quan Hongchan, has won the nation’s heart with her innocent and honest talks at news conferences. When asked about what was her _______, she replied, “I don’t know. Some people say my splash (水花) into the water is even _______ than the splash they make when they throw a dumpling into a pot. I don’t know and I never _______ them. I just dived every day. Each day, I needed to _______ about seven hours, and some days I did for 10 hours.”

Quan was born and _______ in a poor village in Zhanjiang City. When she was still in primary school, Chen Huaming, the diving coach at Zhanjiang Sports School, _______ that Quan jumped much higher than the other kids. After giving her a _______ on a diving board, he _______ knew he had discovered a true talent.

Chen suggested to the youngster that diving could be the _______ to her family’s financial problems. Quan immediately made up her mind to become the best in the sport.

“My mom was ________ then. I really wanted to make money to help her ________ better treatment,” Quan admitted at a news conference.

After four years at the sports school, Quan was ________ for the Guangdong provincial team. In October last year, she won her first national title, presenting her with the opportunity to ________ her country.

Her participation at Tokyo 2020, ________, was only made possible by the postponement (延期) of the Games ________ the health crisis, which let the teenager pass the competition’s minimum age limit.

4 . Fourteen-year-old Quan Hongchan has struck gold for China at the Tokyo Olympics. Starting the competition as a dark horse on the national team, she’s made _______ with amazing performances in the 10-meter women’s diving platform event. She _______ her name in the history books.

Quan is a genius who walked out of a small seaside town. She started _______ at the of seven. In her first training school, the springboard was made of _______ and it got burning hot in the summer. She could only use a towel to squeeze the water to _______ the springboard, and then jumped into the water again and again in the terrible _______.

“Even in such tough_______ Quan Hongchan’s hard work and seriousness in training slowly showed,”   Coach Chen Huaming said, “Her success is not entirely _______ talent”

“Our coach often reminds us that we should take those successful big brothers and sisters as our role models. However hard the training is, they just _______ it to the last second. ”   Quan told China Daily. With the role models in her heart, Quan Hongchan became more __________in training. She kept practicing physical stamina and basic skills, fuming on the tossing machine and jumping off   the platform repeatedly.

Having stood out in a series of competitions, Quan Hongchan managed to __________ the national team at the end of 2020. Due to the __________ training, talent and hard work could finally be perfectly __________ to achieve her goal. This little genius __________ the world with three perfect 10 scores out of five dives after she __________ a near splash-less dive.

5 . At just 21 years old, Nija Charles is one of today's most popular songwriters.

She has been ________ with Beyonce, Jay Z, Cardi B, and many other today's popular music artists. Their works have been ________ . And she was even included in three Grammy nominations（提名）.

But just a few years ago, Charles was only a（n） ________ in the crowd. She was ________ in a musical family. "My dad is a DJ. My mom is a dancer," Charles ________ . "So growing up in this family, I was always ________ by music and crazily chased after musicians."

Charles said she first ________ music at age 13, when she asked her mom for a mini keyboard because she was ________ to produce. "So she got one for me, and I started tapping on the keys," she said.

Charles continued to learn music at New York University, where she'd make songs in her dormitory and post them online. Soon she was ________ in flying across the country on weekends, performing on stage and then studying at school.

"It was tough for me. There were some classes I ________ had to skip. But yeah, it was must time management and 1 had to ________ and finish my homework before I got on the plane or I'd finish the ________ on the plane. I wrote songs during the weekend. I made sure I studied hard so I could finish ________ that year," she said.

Talking about her success, Charles said, "It's ________ that my favourite artists are now the people I cooperate with. Several years ago, I was at their ________ but now I'm in the studio with them."

6 . Quan Hongchan was born in the city of Zhanjiang in China's Southeast Guangdong Province. She______diving at the age of 7. In 2018, she joined the Guangdong Diving Team,______three years there before ______the national team at the end of 2020.

He Weiyi is a diving coach at the Guangdong Diving Team. Quan was under the______of He for 3 years. Up on the 10-meter-high diving platform, Coach He says this is where Quan showed her talents,______expectations despite her young _______.

But Coach He says talent alone doesn't______success. For Quan, hard work has been the ______. As for her big win at the Olympics, coach He says there were challenges along the way. He says she's only fourteen and that the Olympic medal is a(n)______foundation. But he hopes Quan can make full use of her physical______, and continue on the road of______.

It looks high up the platform, but believe it or not, in just three years' time, Quan could______ some very difficult sets of movements. She was______able to do some______men's movements. Her development was much quicker than most______. Audiences admitted she's got______ talent.

Quan practices harder than other athletes around her age. She's the most______. She asked the coach______whether her positions and flights were OK, whether she did well. She'd get unhappy if he couldn't answer her______ . Young as she is, her spirit is a______for perfection.

7 . The outbreak of the epidemic has caused inconvenience to people’s life. Being forced to stay at home during the COVID-19 lockdown has been something of a_________for Olivia Newton John. “I feel _________for saying it, but I’ve actually_________not being able to go anywhere,” the singer admitted on the phone during the lockdown. “My life has always been about being on planes and_________and staying in hotels, so to be in one place for almost a year has been delightful.” “It’s been wonderful having so much time at home,” she says.

The 72-year-old multi-Grammy Award-winner, whose _________have sold over 100 million worldwide, is not _________the laurels (桂冠) she’s earned from nearly six decades in the business. She’s recorded a new_________, prepared an album and_________her own foundation to fund research into the care for cancer. The single , ‘Window in the Wall’, _________a message that’s dear to Olivia’s heart.

The singer was first____________with breast cancer in 1992 but had it under control soon. The cancer came back in 2013 and 2017. However, she’s a fighter who now____________to defeat the disease by the use of medicinal cannabis (大麻制品) and other plant-based____________with the help of her husband John, who____________the Amazon Herb Company in 1990 and who is a(n)____________for herbal wellness treatments. “I’m doing____________well,” Olivia says. “I don’t have pain, and I feel____________.”

Olivia says that she believes there are always going to be____________in life but it’s how you respond to them that ____________the quality of your life. “Your mind and body aren’t separate and if you keep strengthening____________, you’re going to strengthen bad health. That’s why I choose to be positive and____________every day.”

8 . Anna Kiesenhofer became the first Austrian Olympic gold medalist in Tokyo 2020. She wasn’t considered a threat at all. “Finishing in the Top 25 would have been a _________ result.” She said later.

No one_________ she would win. For the whole 85 miles, she competed against a group of _________ competitors — cycling superstars, world champions... until some seemed not to know   she remained up the road, alone.

Confused? At least Van Vleuten was. When she crossed the finish line, smiling, arms _________, under the impression that she’d won gold, she didn’t _________ the race had been won by Anna, a math Ph.D.

Anna’s win was actually more_________. She was the only cyclist from her country, leaving her no teammates she could _________ in the race. At the beginning, there was little hope she might win, but it was only going solo for the last 40 kilometers when she_________ “riding for gold”. As it turned out, competing without much weight of_________ helped Anna win. She entered the race without a professional team and__________ with a gold medal. She wrote a (an) __________ of her own into the history of the Olympics.

Outside of cycling, Anna has earned a Ph.D in applied mathematics. As a successful

__________, she says she has been used to solving problems on her own. “I like to be __________, and that’s the way I approach cycling.” Asked what words she would share to an aspiring young rider, she responded, “I’m not __________ to accept what makes me unique. I dare to be different. This means I’m also__________, and that’s exactly what happened in the race.”

9 . Everyone admires heroes. When we are asked ________ are our heroes, someone well-known like Yang Liwei or Zhong Nanshan may come into mind. They make a big difference to the world. ________ , there are “everyday” heroes in our daily life. They may not be so ________ to the public, but these common people are also working hard to build a better world. ________ them is Sun Jun.

Sun Jun comes from a poor village. The villagers used to have no enough food. He knew much about the ________ . He learned to ________ food at his early age. When he was a college student, he found that the problem of food waste was more and more ________ . He started to ________ unsold food from restaurants and stores for homeless people.

After graduating, Sun Jun joined a volunteer ________ called Green Food Bank, which was set up in Shanghai in 2014. The purpose of the organization is to build a bridge between people who are ready to help others and those who are ________. It works by collecting and ________ free food for the poor, the disabled and so on.

Sun’s team developed a phone app. It can show how much food restaurants remain each day. Usually, the workplaces of volunteers are not far from the restaurants, ________ they can just walk there to get the food for free. Then it can be given out in just a few ________ .

So far, Sun and his team have done something ________ to the society. On the one hand, they’ve saved a lot of food. On the other hand, they’ve helped some people ________ . More volunteers and restaurants join them now. The small actions of these heroes can make a ________ influence than we imagine.

Why does Sun do ________ these things? He says, “Thanks to Grandpa Yuan Longping, we are almost no longer short of food. We need to think about how to ________ wasting. There’s a long way to go, but I won’t ________ halfway. It’s just the beginning. We still have ________ to do.”

10 . Born in Beijing in 1930, Yuan Longping______his childhood in wars. Although he had to______from one place to another,his mother always told him______stories . From these______, he made up his mind to be a_____ person when he grew up. At the same time, his mother also_____ him English, which made him be able to_____ the world's most advanced scientific books in English.

Yuan Longping's fate with_____can date back to the first grade of his primary school. One day, his teacher took the children to the field(田野)._____ at the red peaches and the watery grapes, Yuan Longping felt that life in the field was very_____ and he was attracted by the scenery . How much he hoped that there was no_____ in his life and that he could______the good time in the field freely. From then on, he had the_____ of learning agriculture(农学).

So later, when it was time for him to go to______he did not hesitate（犹豫） to choose to learn ____. He said:” When I was young, I had ever seen the beauty in the field and the suffering of______people because of the war.So,I want to be a person who can help people have enough to______.” After hearing these words, his parents were very______of their child and decided to support his dream. After a series of experiments, his hybrid rice planting technology was fully______in 1975. He was called “______of hybrid rice ”