Christopher Edward Nolan is a British-American film director, producer and screenwriter known 【小题1】 making personal, distinctive films within the Hollywood mainstream.

【小题2】 (raise) in London, Nolan developed an interest in filmmaking from a young age. He studied English literature at University College London, gained his screenwriting skills, 【小题3】 made his first film Following. It was his 【小题4】 (two) work, Memento, a low-cost suspense film made in 2000 with his brother Jonathan Nolan, 【小题5】 helped him gain international recognition. He then changed his career direction from making independent films, for 【小题6】 he was nominated(提名)for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, to cooperating with professional studios. Masterpieces like Dark Knight Trilogy (2005), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014) and Tenet (2020), enjoying great 【小题7】 (popular) around the globe, 【小题8】 (receive) more than 10 Oscar nominations in the past 20 years.

Typically, Nolan’s films 【小题9】 (root) in profound themes, exploring human morality, the construction of time, and personal identity.

Time named him one of the 100 most 【小题10】 (influence) people in the world in 2015, and in 2019, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to film.

A 90-year-old has been awarded “Woman Of The Year” for 【小题1】 (be) Britain’s oldest full-time employee (雇员) still working 40 hours a week. Now Irene Astbury works from 9 am to 5 pm daily at the pet shop 【小题2】 she opened with her late husband Les. Her years of hard work have been 【小题3】 (final) acknowledged after a customer nominated (提名) her to be Cheshire’s Woman Of The Year.

Picking up her “Lifetime Achievement” award, Irene 【小题4】 (declare) she had no plans 【小题5】 (retire) from her 36-year-old business. Irene said, “I don’t see any reason to give up work. I love coming here and seeing my family and all the 【小题6】 (friend) I have made over the years. I work not because I have to, 【小题7】 because I want to.”

Granddaughter Gayle Parks, 31-who works alongside her in the family business said it remained unknown as to who nominated Irene for the award. She said, “We don’t have any idea who put grandma forward. When we got a call 【小题8】 (say) she was short-listed, we thought it was a joke. But then we got 【小题9】 official letter and we were blown away. We are so proud of her. It’s 【小题10】 (wonder).”

Lin Qiaozhi, 【小题1】(know) as the “mother of ten thousand babies”, had delivered over 50, 000 babies in her lifetime.

When she was 18 years old, she chose 【小题2】(study) medicine instead of following the 【小题3】(tradition) path of marriage like the majority of girls. After graduating 【小题4】 Peking Union Medical College, she immediately became the first woman to be hired as 【小题5】 resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. A few years later, she 【小题6】(send) to study in Europe and then in the US. Her American colleagues wanted her to stay in the US, 【小题7】 she refused because she wanted to work for her motherland.