As a five-year-old girl, Lin Qiaozhi was deeply 【小题1】 by her mother’s death. At age 18, instead of following the 【小题2】 of marriage like the majority of girls, she chose to study medicine. “Why should girls learn so much? Finding a good husband should be their 【小题3】!” her brother complained, 【小题4】 the high tuition fees. She responded, “I’d rather stay single to study all my life!”

China’s space programme started later than those of Russia and the US, but it has 【小题5】 in a short time. China became the third country in the world to 【小题6】 send humans into space in 2003, when Yang Liwei successfully orbited Earth in the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft. Then Shenzhou 6 and 7 completed a second 【小题7】 orbit and the first Chinese spacewalk, 【小题8】 the vehicle Jade Rabbit being sent to the moon to study its surface. After that, China launched the Tiangong 2 space lab into space and Tianzhou 1 to dock with it. This 【小题9】one step further in China’s plan to establish a space station in the future. More recently, China has sent Chang’e 4 to explore the surface of the 【小题10】 the moon to make measurements and observations.

“Are you alone? What’s out there?” L【小题1】 up at the stars, people have always wanted to learn more about space, and scientists work hard to find answers. They make v【小题2】 to carry brave people into space to f【小题3】 out the secrets of the u【小题4】. They also really wish to discover other planets that are s【小题5】 enough to support life.

Before the mid-20th century, most people felt travelling into space was an i【小题6】 dream. However, some scientists were determined to help humans realize their d【小题7】 to explore space. After many experiments, they s【小题8】 in making rockets that could e【小题9】 Earth’s gravity. On 4 October 1957, the Sputnik I satellite was l【小题10】 by the USSR and successfully orbited around the Earth.

【小题1】 time, some plants develop features which help them to 【小题2】 in particular conditions. Plants with helpful features are more likely to survive and 【小题3】. Plants without these features often die 【小题4】. This process is called natural 【小题5】.

Countries around the 【小题6】 are spending billions of dollars and lots of time on various space missions, whether to Mars or other planets much further away. Some people argue that we should stop wasting time and money 【小题7】 space. 【小题8】, we should feed the world’s poor and find immediate solutions to other problems, such as pollution and 【小题9】 diseases. However, others feel this is a 【小题10】 view which fails to realise how exploring space helps us.