Last month, Xian Jishu, a nurse from Chongqing Southwest Hospital, won Nightingale Awards
(南丁格尔奖章). She is the first nurse who won it in Chongqing. Nurses in Chongqing are all 1.          
 of her.
    Who is Nightingale? Florence Nightingale was the first great 2.            in the world. She was 3.          
 in a rich family on May 12, 1820. She was very kind-hearted and enjoyed 4.            others, especially
people who were 5.           . She thought that helping patients was 6.            a duty and a pleasure. So she
decided to be a nurse when she was 24. But her parents didn't agree. Her family had lots of money, so they
thought it was not necessary for her to work. Besides, nurses were not well respected (尊重) at that time.
But Nightingale didn't change her mind. She believed that she would 7.            her dream. Later she went to
Germany and France to learn to be a nurse. 8.            that time there were no nursing schools. So she had
to learn a lot of nursing knowledge by practicing.
    During the war she went to the front hospitals to look after soldiers. She used her 9.            money to
buy clothes, beds, medicine and food for the patients. After the war, Nightingale opened the world's first
nursing school.
    In 1910, she died quietly in her sleep at the age of 90. Her 10.            made people sad. In 1974, her
birthday became International Nurses Day because of the great love and help she gave to people.

    Have you ever tried the "Magic Cube"(魔方) ? Pick up one of these cubes and you probably won't be able to p_______ (1) it down. How hard can it be to rearrange the nine little s_______(2) on each side of the cube? In fact, there are millions of possibilities! It has been over 30 years since the cube first h_______(3) the market. However, not many people know that it was used just as a simple classroom m_______(4) at the beginning.
    In 1974, Mr. Erno Rubik i_______(5) the "Magic Cube" as he called it. He did this to help his students u_______(6) difficult 3D concepts(概念). This classroom example was quickly t_______(7) into a popular toy. In 1979, Ideal Toys started to sell it as "Rubik's Cube". The invention quickly became a 1980s c_______(8) icon.
     As time went by, the cube once l_______(9) its attractive qualities. However, it made a comeback with the internet. Now anyone can go online and find many videos that show ways to s_______(10) the cube. Erik Akkersdijk of the Netherlands holds the world record now. He finished in just 7.08 seconds!