As the saying goes, “A hero is known in the time of misfortune?” Zhong Nanshan is a hero like this. He is a doctor in Guangdong and he 【小题1】 (save) many people’s lives in 2003.

In 2003, SARS broke out in Guangdong. Later, it spread across China and other parts of the world. Patients coughed a lot and got fevers. 【小题2】 (hundred) of patients even died from the disease. Even many doctors and nurses got SARS when they treated patients. So everyone was afraid of it. But Zhong was brave enough 【小题3】 (fight) against the disease. Zhong spent days and nights 【小题4】 (find) the cause of the disease. And with his way of treating, many patients began to get 【小题5】 (good). Zhong finally won people’s heart.

In early 2020, a disease 【小题6】 (call) COVID-19 hit Wuhan. It went 【小题7】 (quick) and thousands of Chinese people got the illness. Zhong Nanshan is 84 years old, but he quickly led his team to Wuhan to meet it. Zhong’s team took many measures to cure the patients with COVID-19. Zhong wins the hearts of people again.

“I am just a doctor.” Zhong says. But we think he is a real 【小题8】 (fight).

Stan Lee, original name Stanley Martin Lieber, was 【小题1】 (出生) in New York City in 1922. At the age of 17, he got a job at Timely Comics, the company that later developed into Marvel. There he 【小题2】 (精确地) learned writing duties and superhero stories.

Lee spent nearly 80 years of his life creating hundreds of characters and teams.

People widely 【小题3】 (传播) some of his works around the world, such as the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Iron Mar the Avengers, X-Men and Thor.

Actually, Marvel’s superheroes existed long before Lee got into the 【小题4】 (商业). They were perfect in comic books. However, Lee’s heroes are quite different. They do have superpowers that common people don’t have. But they are also troubled by 【小题5】 (日常的) problems. People who like Lee’s heroes think that they can even feel sorry for these superheroes.

Lee has also played many cameo roles in Marvel movies, a 【小题6】 (传统) that continued after Walt Disney. In these films, he waters the flowers, sends 【小题7】 (邮件). Once he even worked as a safety 【小题8】 (警卫), In 2008, Lee was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

On November 12, 2018, this 【小题9】 (活跃的) old man died of illness in Los Angeles，California, at the age of 95. But we will always 【小题10】 (记住) him and his superheroes. He will live in our world forever.

“I spent my whole life doing one thing, “Gu Fangzhou once said. Known as “the father of sugar pills (糖丸)”, Gu passed away on January 2, 2019. Eight months later, he received a national honorary-title (荣誉称号) “the People’s Scientist” for his polio (脊髓灰质炎) research. But many children 【小题1】 (not hear) his story before.

Gu Fangzhou, a famous medical scientist, was born in June,1926. Gu’s family faced a difficult time with the sudden death of his father. He studied hard and finally entered Peking University as a medical student in 1944. After graduation, Gu made the decision to work to help 【小题2】 (improve) public health.

In 1955, polio broke out in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. It paralyzed (使瘫痪) 1680 people, mostly children aged below seven. It 【小题3】 (spread) to neighboring areas and resulted in 466 deaths. Gu 【小题4】 (ask) to lead polio research in 1957. “At that time the only way to prevent polio was to invent a vaccine (疫苗),” said Gu.

In 1959 Gu succeeded in 【小题5】 (develop) the first polio live vaccine. Later, he developed the “sugar-coated pill” vaccine in the early 1960s. It not only tasted better but was more affordable and easier to keep. To test the vaccine, Gu tried the vaccine in person and later his one-month-old son was vaccinated. This inspired his team to vaccinate their kids. They became the first group of people in China to try a polio vaccine. “If we don’t believe in what we produce, how can others believe in it?” said Gu.

Gradually, the sugar-coated polio vaccine was made available in China. It saved millions of people, especially kids, from being disabled. In 2000, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that China was already a polio-free country. “We feel satisfied. I 【小题6】 (tell) people that I tried my best, and your kids 【小题7】 (not get) polio any longer,” said Gu. “That’s all we hoped for.”