When I was in high school, most of my friends had bicycle. I hoped I could also have it. One day I saw a second-hand bicycle, that was only one hundred yuan. I asked my father the money, and he said he could only give me half of the money. I should earn the other half by myself. So I went to sell newspapers after the school. My father was pleasing when I showed him the money a month late. He gave me the other fifty. You can imagine how happily I felt when I ride to school on my own bicycle.

   I was born in New York City. My first seven years were spent in Manhattan, and then we moved to the Bronx. As a child with a strong ___for knowledge, I went to a public school and received a good ___education there.

At the end of my high school I decided to major in science and, in particular, ___. One of the ___factors may have been that my grandfather, whom I loved dearly, died of cancer when I was 15. I was ___motivated to do something that might eventually ___a cure for this terrible disease.

With great efforts and help from my parents, I ___graduate school at New York University in 1939. I was the only female in my graduate chemistry class, and ___my Master of Science degree in chemistry in 1941.

I was doing my research into ___with other scientists. When we began to see the results of our ____in the form of new drugs which filled real ____needs and benefited patients in very ____ways, our feeling of ____was immeasurable.

Over the ____, my work became both my vocation and avocation(业余爱好). ____, I became an enthusiastic photographer and ____. I have traveled fairly widely over the world, but there still remain many places for me to explore. ____major interest is music and I am an opera lover. I also ____concerts, ballet and theater.

In my ____career I was promoted frequently, and in 1967 I was appointed Head of the Department of Experimental Therapy, a position which I ____until I retired in 1983.