It all started with one half of a five-pound note. In June of 1936, two foreigners, George Hatem and Edgar Snow, checked into a hotel in Xi’an. They wanted to reach Yan’an, 【小题1】 city where the headquarters (总部) of the Chinese Red Army was located. They didn’t know how they could get there 【小题2】 a Chinese man showed up with one half of a five-pound note. The fact was that Hatem and Snow had the other half of the same five-pound note, 【小题3】 (give) to them as a secret key to visit Yan’an. So as the two halves 【小题4】 (piece) together, Hatem and Snow found the right person 【小题5】 (take) them to their destination. They were among the first foreigners to set foot in the headquarters of the Red Army. It was also this trip 【小题6】 enabled Snow to write Red Star Over China.

The trip’s impact on Hatem was equally profound if not 【小题7】 (deep). Their visit was originally set for three 【小题8】 (month), but near the end of the journey, Hatem decided to stay, and later 【小题9】 (serve) as a public health adviser. It was Hatem who introduced a group of international medical professionals including Norman Bethune to China. They supported China’s war efforts and helped to lay the foundation for a new public healthcare system.

In 1950, Hatem became the first foreigner to obtain a Chinese citizenship. He spent the rest of his life in China, 【小题10】 (devote) himself to the treatment of leprosy (麻风病) until his death in October 1998.

Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015 for her research, which led to the discovery of artemisinin. Artemisinin 【小题1】 (save) a large number of lives since it was discovered. After 【小题2】 (graduate) from university, Tu Youyou worked at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In 1967, Tu Youyou was chosen as a 【小题3】 (research) of a team of scientists with 【小题4】 purpose of discovering a new method for malaria. Her team 【小题5】 (evaluate) 280,000 plants for 【小题6】 (they) medical properties and tested 380 distinct ancient Chinese medical 【小题7】 (treatment). One medical text suggested using the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever. Tu Youyou analyzed the medical texts again, and 【小题8】 chance, she found one sentence suggesting a different way. Soon she found a substance that worked by boiling the sweet wormwood at a lower temperature. The team’s hard work 【小题9】 (final) paid off in 1971.

Tu Youyou thought 【小题10】 they gained was a team effort and that the Nobel Prize was an honor for China’s scientific research.

Gandhi, 【小题1】 Indian national hero, was known as the father of the Indian nation. He was looked up to by the Indians.

He was born in India in 1869. 【小题2】(follow) the local custom, he got married at the age of 13. In 1888, he set sail for England, where he studied law for three years and became a lawyer. On his return to India, he 【小题3】(send) to South Africa to work on a law case. In South Africa, 【小题4】 surprised him most was that the racial discrimination there was serious, so he formed an organization and started a magazine to fight for equal rights. Gandhi returned to India in 1915, 【小题5】 India was controlled by the British. He 【小题6】(lead) the Indians to fight for an end to the British rule. In a political movement, many Indians, 【小题7】(include) Gandhi, were put in prison. However, the struggles never stopped. The British Government had to give in and India won its 【小题8】(independent) in 1947.

【小题9】(fortunate), Gandhi was shot dead by a person who opposed his views and died 【小题10】 January 30th, 1948.