Imagine 【小题1】(abandon) at the age of 6 by his poor parents! Charles Mulli was forced to become a street beggar in order to survive. Yet even in the midst of his poverty and despair, he still dreamed of being an important man someday. He 【小题2】 (labor) at many difficult jobs for the following several years. Mulli then saved money and bought a car. That was 【小题3】 he began using as a taxi and in time, he started a transportation service company with a fleet of vehicles. All of his hard work turned Mull into a millionaire and an important man.

When Lin Qiaozhi was five, her mother died, 【小题1】affected her deeply. At age 18, she chose to study medicine. Eight years later, Lin graduated from Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) with the Wenhai Scholarship, the highest prize 【小题2】(give) to graduates. She 【小题3】(immediate) became the first woman to work as a resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. After several years, she 【小题4】(send) to study in Europe and then, in 1939, in the US. She left a good impression 【小题5】her American colleagues who invited her to stay. However, Lin rejected the offer and returned to China.

In 1941, Dr Lin became the first Chinese woman 【小题6】(appoint) director of the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. When the department was closed because of the war, she opened 【小题7】private clinic to continue to treat patients. She was even seen riding a donkey to faraway villages to provide medical care.

Although Lin Qiaozhi held many important positions in politics, she was 【小题8】(interested) in tending patients, publishing medical research 【小题9】training new staff in her department. Dr Lin never married and she kept working until her death in 1983. She left her 【小题10】(saving) to a kindergarten and a fund for new doctors.