A picture of 17-year-old Zhang Guimei has gone viral(疯传) on China’s social media. The _______ young girl with black-rimmed glasses and two short braids is beaming brightly into the camera.

Did she know, then, that she would _______ up to be the much respected founder and president of the Huaping High School for Girls in Lijiang, Southwest China’s Yunnan province? People are deeply _______ by the fresh-faced girl in the picture, which is very different from Zhang’s now aged _______ people know very well, as it tells a story of a woman who has devoted her life to pushing for the development of _______ and fighting poverty(贫困) in the countryside.

Born in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province in 1957, Zhang traveled to _______ at the age of 17 and has been helping girls from poor areas get education for over 40 years.

With the support of the Party and the government, she helped set up the country’s first senior high school to offer free education for girls from poor families. The school provides free education for girls who would otherwise have been unable to continue their studies after _______ their nine years of compulsory education.

_______ she had serious health problems, Zhang Guimei took morning classes with students for l2 years. She has _______ added up 110,000 kilometers visiting her students’ families over the years. Most of her money was spent on students. Since the school opened in 2008, it has ________ more than 1, 800 students attend universities and colleges.

“I was built to be a ________, not a creek, rising to the high peaks(山峰) with the small valleys at my feet. I was born to be ________, not worthless, standing on the shoulders of the giants, the petty cowards(儒夫) ________ me. “The motto of Huaping High School or Girls is also what Zhang Guimei always tries to follow.

Zhang Guimei received an award for being one of China’s inspiring role models by TV program Touching China2020 this year. And the President Xi Jiping ________ an award to Zhang Gumei during a grand gathering to mark the nation’s achievements in helping reduce poverty and praise excellent poverty ________ at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Zhang Guimei is a common person but she is also a national hero.

A 14-year-old boy from the USA was described as a hero yesterday after he saved the life of a woman in another country.

Dean Bluey from Dallas, Texas, is a school boy who has much________in computers. One day, he_________an email to a friend on the Internet. Suddenly he received a message saying “Help! Pain! Help！”The message was from Finland, _____ kilometers away from America.

“I didn’t know ______ I should do,” Dean said to a reporter afterwards. “It was really difficult to tell if the message was real.” So Dean did nothing at first.______ the message kept coming.

“By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble，” Dean explained. He _______   and discovered that the sender was a student called Tarja, who   was alone in a university library. She was ill. What was_______there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with

the world was by email. Dean got in touch_______the police immediately. And they realized that the situation was quite serious. They called the police in Finland. Then an ambulance rushed to the library. ______, she was still alive and was sent to hospital quickly.

“I’m glad she’s OK,” Dean said. “It’s hard to believe, but _____ saved her life.”

A brave 5-year-old Indiana boy who lost his fight against brain cancer (癌) this month received a hero’s funeral (葬礼). A superhero’s funeral, that is, ______ people for Brayden Denton’s funeral dressed as Spider-Man (蜘蛛侠), Thor, the Hulk, Superman, Iron Man and Batman.

“The whole time I saw them carrying Brayden. This is so ______,” mom Staci Denton told The Daily News on Monday. “That was his world. That’s what he would have wanted.”

Brayden had got a head cancer since April last year. He always ______ a bad headache, his mother said. During the difficult time, young Brayden kept his ______ for superheroes-especially Spider-Man.

For his third and fourth birthdays, he got a Spidery. ______. For his 5th birthday three months ago, the family celebrated with a bigger superhero cake. And ______ the help of some volunteers, Brayden got a chance to meet the actors during a trip to Florida last year.

Even though he was very ______, Brayden went to the new Spider-Man movie this spring. While he was only able to see the beginning and the end, he gave a thumb (拇指) up for the movie.

“It was not easy to make sure that he could go to see that ______,” his mom said. It was the mother who thought of the “super” idea for the funeral after Brayden ______ on May 8.

“He could ______ less about people being in expensive clothes,” said his mom, who wore a Spidey T-shirt to the service. “He was a 5-year-old boy. That’s not what he thought was tidy. He loved looking at superhero T-shirts.”