China 【小题1】 (be) the largest producer and consumer of watermelons in the world since 2018. And Wu Mingzhu, 92 years old now, is the unsung hero who has helped make this possible. It’s no exaggeration to say that about 80 percent of the watermelons 【小题2】 (serve) at people’s dining tables every day are the result of painstaking efforts made by Wu and her team over more than 60 years.

Admitted to Southwest Agricultural College in Chongqing in the late 1940s, Wu is an alumnus (校友) of Yuan Longping, the “father of hybrid rice”. After two years of application setbacks, Wu succeeded in 【小题3】 (realize) her dream of starting her career in Xinjiang in 1955. Since then, she has devoted 【小题4】 (she) to breeding sweet melons.

Wu’s efforts to grow quality melons began paying off in 1973, 【小题5】she set up an offseason breeding base in tropical Hainan. Shuttling between Xinjiang and Hainan 【小题6】 (annual) for many years , Wu cultivated more than 20,000 of China’s new seed 【小题7】 (variety) through offseason breeding.

Wu’s contribution has won her many praises. She became 【小题8】academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999 and an honorary citizen of Sanya in 2004. In addition, growers affectionately (亲切地) call her the “Queen of Melons”.

Now suffering from Alzheimer’s (阿兹海默) disease, Wu is often 【小题9】 (able) to recognize her former colleagues or even her family members. However, the memory of her melon work 【小题10】 (remain) in her mind.

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In a wooden fan workshop in Jiangxi Province, China, Yu Xiuying is 【小题1】 (busy) than usual, and as she paints, delicate flowers appear across the fan.

“Now I decorate at least 120 fans a day,” says the artist, 【小题2】 has 14 years of fan painting experience under her belt. “As the market recovers, orders for this kind of handicraft (手工艺) wooden fans have been 【小题3】 the increase,” she adds.

The fans Yu has painted in Ganzhu Township in Guangchang County 【小题4】 (export) to Spain next month. The small town owns a flourishing (繁荣的) handicraft fan industry, 【小题5】 its annual output of fans is over 70 million with an output value of over 300 million yuan.

The fans are 【小题6】 elegant that they attract more and more European buyers. “At the end of each year, the 【小题7】(prepare) for the coming year begins. The fans are shipped to Spain, 【小题8】 (distribute) all over Europe,” one owner of a fan company says. He also adds that the wooden fans needed by Spanish traders 【小题9】 (become) the main products of his enterprise so far. The handicraft fan craze fanned by the success motivates a large number of locals 【小题10】 (work) in the industry now.

It is with a very heavy heart that we are sharing the news of the passing of Dr. Alfonso (Rick) Radcliffe, who celebrated his 92nd birthday in October. He died【小题1】 (peaceful) at his home 【小题2】 the evening of Friday. Rick is survived by his son and daughter-in-law.

Rick was born in St. Louis, 1928. He【小题3】 (accept) in the Physics program at UCLA at 15 years old but delayed 【小题4】 (study) to serve in the army. When he was released one year later, Rick returned to UCLA, completing his BS, MS and Doctorate degree. 【小题5】 (arm) with a PhD in Control Systems, Rick went to work at Mattel Toys as a Test Engineer, 【小题6】 he creatively designed a musical doll. Rick was later hired to serve as Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering for the new minority engineering program at CSUN, becoming the 【小题7】(one) black Dean of Engineering in the entire CSU system. Among his many ground breaking 【小题8】 (accomplish), Rick was responsible for hiring 【小题9】 (many) women into CSUN’s engineering program than all of the other CSU schools combined. Rick worked at CSUN for 30 years including 10 years of post-retirement project work. In keeping with his investigative mind set, Rick donated his body to UCLA for 【小题10】 (science) research.