At the end of May in 2022, events 【小题1】 (hold) both online and offline in Nanjing and Taicang, Jiangsu province, to honor the 110th anniversary of the birth of nuclear physicist Wu Chien-shiung. In September that year, 【小题2】 global online seminar was staged also to mark this anniversary.

【小题3】 (compare) with physicists such as Marie Curie or Richard Feynman, Wu is not a household name in China, where she was born and grew up, or in the United States, where she spent most of her life, but she was one of the most 【小题4】 (influence) nuclear physicists of the 20th century, one who 【小题5】 (complete) changed human’s view of the universe.

Wu was born 【小题6】 May 31, 1912, in Liuhe town, Taicang, where the Yangtze River flows into the East Sea. It was a time 【小题7】 the feudal system (封建制度) in China, which spanned more than 2,000 years, came to an end and new 【小题8】 (thought) rushed in as people sought to find ways to revive the country.

After 【小题9】 (receive) a modern education in Shanghai, Wu’s father, Wu Zhongyi, founded the first school for girls in Taicang in 1913. He aimed 【小题10】 (break) the old sexist advocacy that it was women’s virtue to have no talents. The school has become Mingde Senior Middle School since 1998.

Have you ever heard some 【小题1】(inspire) stories of the disabled? Helen Keller is one 【小题2】 deserves to be mentioned. Helen, a well-recognised female author, had several strong 【小题3】(restrict) to her body. She could not read or write at her early age, but later she mastered several languages. Anne Sullivan, a teacher at a school for the disabled, played an irreplaceable role in Helen’s growth and achievements. Anne adopted simple approaches 【小题4】 teaching, 【小题5】(repeated) spelt new words by writing on Helen’s hands, and asked her to imitate. In other words, she would not learn the words 【小题6】 they could be touched, such as water, dolls etc. Gradually, her interest grew and she explored complicated and abstract words. In the process of learning the word “think”, she struggled a lot and made breakthroughs by accident when 【小题7】(finish) small tasks. As for the word “love”, she 【小题8】(discourage) from trying many times without understanding it. Despite many failures, Anne kept on encouraging her 【小题9】(try) while Helen carried on thinking and suddenly realised it was as beautiful as the sun and clouds. It is Anne that 【小题10】(enlighten) Helen’s mind and brings a broad world to her.

Symphony No. 9 was Beethoven’s last major piece of music in a vast body of works 【小题1】 (write) throughout his remarkable life. As 【小题2】 gifted child, Beethoven was pushed to study music day and night by his father. Not long after, he began to be appreciated for his piano performances. By the time he was a teenager, he 【小题3】 (enjoy) a reputation as a wonderful young musician.