Helen Keller was a great 【小题1】(write) and educator in the world, 【小题2】most famous work is The Story of My Life.

When she was young, Helen was a very special girl, who couldn’t speak, read or write because she couldn’t see or hear. Because of these severe restrictions on her 【小题3】(communicate), her behaviour was often not 【小题4】(bear).

It was her teacher Anne Sullivan 【小题5】completely changed her. Anne Sullivan herself also had eyesight problems, so she could understand Helen’s difficulties. Anne’s first goal was to stop Helen’s troublesome behaviour, which gave her 【小题6】(value) preparation to learn language.

Helen learned words by 【小题7】(touch) objects. It was the word “water” that she completely understood 【小题8】the first time. From then on, she learned many complex words. With Helen’s knowledge and vocabulary 【小题9】(expand), she was eager 【小题10】(learn) more complex words which need the thinking process.

Bill Cunningham was one of the most important American photographers of the last 50 years so that every member of New York's wealthy high society wanted nothing more than 【小题1】(pose) for him. Cunningham always used simple, 【小题2】 (relative) cheap cameras and took all his pictures on the streets of New York. Although Cunningham always knew 【小题3】 fashionable parties and events were happening, he liked to photograph ordinary people. He found 【小题4】 (inspire) where others could not.

In addition, 【小题5】   made Cunningham great was his devotion to photography. He would even stay outside in a storm, not 【小题6】 (come) back until he knew he had the right photos. He hardly ever took a day 【小题7】 and not once stayed home sick.

Although he was a world-famous fashion photographer, Cunningham's approach to life was 【小题8】 (complicated). Cunningham never accepted the benefits 【小题9】 (offer) to him for being a fashion photographer. He was a "【小题10】 (culture) anthropologist", we can thank for recording the life of a whole city and its people over half a century.

Lei Haiwei, a 37-year-old fast food courier, from Central China’s Hunan province was 【小题1】 (brilliant) crowned champion in a televised Chinese poetry knowledge contest, winning fans over with his true love for ancient poems.

He beat other 【小题2】 (competitor), including a master’s degree graduate from the prestigious Peking University, in the 【小题3】 (three) season of the Chinese Poetry Conference on China Central Television on April 4.

“My interest in ancient poems began as early as I 【小题4】 (be) six years old, ”Lei said after winning   【小题5】 competition. In 2001, the younger Lei graduated from a technical secondary school and found a job in Shanghai.

During his stay there, Lei 【小题6】 (fascinate) by a poem titled Xia Ke Xing. The poem’s author was the noted poet Li Bai, 【小题7】 lived in the Tang Dynasty (618—907).

Lei began to read books 【小题8】(relate) to ancient poems at bookstores or libraries in his spare time, since the wages he earned were not high enough 【小题9】him to buy many. The young man also developed a habit of reading poems he liked, writing down them after returning home.

As for his future plans, the courier said he will stick to 【小题10】 (recite) poems.