For three days, Dr Diarra Boubacar didn’t get a single patient. Then on the f【小题1】 day, a woman opened the door, saw him and ran away.

The doctor had to run after her and said, “I can help you with the problem. I【小题2】 my treatment is not helpful, I will not take any money from you.”

The woman finally a【小题3】 his suggestion, and she felt well after she had the treatment. She started bringing her relatives there, and they all became Boubacar’s p【小题4】 . Gradually, Dr Boubacar became one of the most popular doctors in the hospital.

Born in Mali, an A【小题5】 country, Boubacar first came to China in 1984 to study Chinese in Beijing. When completing the course, he chose to learn Traditional Chinese Medicine （TCM）in Guangzhou.

S【小题6】 there were many ancient Chinese characters in the medical textbook, students had to learn more about ancient Chinese history, culture and literature.

“That’s a subject even Chinese people find d【小题7】. It’s surely a great challenge to me, too,” Dr Boubacar said. But w【小题8】 his hard work, Boubacar finally became the first foreigner to get a doctoral（博士的）degree in TCM. He now works in a hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

However, his work did not stop in the hospitals of big cities. In 1997, he a【小题9】 joined a WHO training project in Yunnan Province. Since then, he has trained more than 3 000 village doctors. They together helped many villagers with their health care. And they did that for free.

Even though Boubacar is p【小题10】 medicine in China, he has not forgotten about his people back in Mali. He plans to build a hospital with an educational centre where people can learn TCM in Africa in the future. “If they learn TCM there, they will be able to treat people in Africa in a very cheap and effective way,” he said.

Damin usually 【小题1】 off in the late afternoon and gets the cormorants 【小题2】 for work. First, he ties a piece of grass around their necks to stop them from eating big fish. Then when Damin’s boat 【小题3】 the right place in the river, he pushes them into the river. Damin uses several ways to 【小题4】 fish. During the day, he jumps 【小题5】 and 【小题6】 on his boat.

One day, Sam went to visit Mr. Brown, 【小题1】 great teacher, who was getting old and sick. He hoped that Mr. Brown would share 【小题2】 he had learned over the years with him.

Mr. Brown said that time waits 【小题3】 no man. So, we should never waste time. Instead we should do something meaningful. Then Sam wanted to know what strength Mr. Brown thought was the most powerful. Mr. Brown said, “At the beginning, I wanted to have the strength to change the world. But gradually, I realized that I could never make it.”

Now at this age, he finally realized what kind of strength is the most powerful. “【小题4】 is the strength to change myself and accept others.”

In our life, many people around us think that if others can change, they 【小题5】 feel better. However, what we need to know is that change needs to start with ourselves.