Great physicist Yang Chenning

Fill the gaps:

The speaker said: "You said in your Nobel acceptance speech that you personally are a product of both the _____ and _____ between China and the West.

(a)  

Yang: China had a very long and (a)   history.

Yang: Big great powers, mostly Great Britain, have tried to confront China.

What does "confront" mean here?

• 覆盖

• 反对

• 面对

• 对抗

The treaty stipulated that China was to pay (a)   (number) tonnes of silver, which was astronomical (adj. 天文数字的) among that time.

What were the two purposes of the returned silver approved by US Congress to China from the UK?

• A charity foundation in China

• A higher education Institute in China

• A public welfare organization in China

• • A poverty assistance program in China

• • A sino-us Student Scholarship