Our teachers are like candles that shine brightly. But today, we are talking about a great teacher1 is awarded the Role Model of the Times - Zhang Guimei.
Zhang Guimei, a 64-year-old 2 of the Huaping High School for Girls in Huaping village in Lijiang, Yunnan. She traveled to Yunnan at the age of 17 and 3 girls from poor families for over 40 years. During 12 years, she helped 1,800 students.
One day, Zhang Guimin went to visit a student in the village to ask her to go back to school. But her parents wanted the girl to get married 4 they didn't have money for school. The little girl was only 13 and she really wanted to go to school. Zhang Guimei felt 5 for the little girl. After that, Zhang 6 to set up a free high school for the poor students. Zhang walked thousands of kilometers, visiting students' families in the deep mountain, talking to villagers, asking girls to go back to school.
Zhang, now 63, keeps 7 at around 5 am to turn on the lights of the teaching building, call students 8 a loudspeaker, go to classes together with her students and sleep at midnight. 9 she is in very bad health and needs to take a lot of medicine every day. 10 someone asks her why she did all these things, Zhang says she wants children from the mountain to go to the best universities. And it's her 11 to see her students live better than her.
In early December, she 12 a national outstanding member of the Communist Party of China for her dedication(奉献) to education in Chinese villages. Her 13 stories inspire(激励) thousands of people.
Do you still remember the story 14 "Cross the river to School" in our English book? All these stories teach us a 15 Lesson- love our life and try to help others by working hard. All in all, hard work is the road to happiness.
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