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.

Yang: China had a very long and _____ 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 ____(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