When you practice reading during the period of learning Mandarin Chinese, you may see some exercises that you need to fill the blanks with the given words. However, sometimes it just gives you the Pinyin of some words and you need to write the correct words accordingly and fill them into the blanks. For example, the Pinyin such as rónɡ yù, quē fá, mìnɡ, zhǎi, cāo xīn and mó fàn are given.

Then, some sentences are provided with blanks in which you need to fill the proper words. Before this, you should know the words that the given Pinyin indicate are respectively 荣誉、缺乏、命、窄、操心and 模范, meaning honor, lack, fate, narrow, worry and model. It would be easier to do the following practice. For example, the sentence儿子去世以后，她常常抱怨自己的苦implies the life is miserable. Therefore, it should be 命苦.

Let‘s move our attention to the sentence 在他看来， 甚至比生命更重要, intending to express that something is more important than life. Among those given words, only honor and model are nouns available. But from the aspect of meaning, 荣誉 is appropriate. 模范 means model or sample and foreigners who study Mandarin online may know it should be used in the sentence like 虽然他现在是个模仿的学生，可是上小学时，他常常逃学，让父母非常操心.

If you pay attention, you must have found 操心 is used in the above sentence. It means to worry about something. Those who learn to speak Chinese should know that 窄  the meaning of “narrow”, which can be used to describe the space, but also the knowledge. For example, 他的知识面那么窄，我看他很难通过公司的面试. Since缺乏means “lack of” or something Is not sufficient, we can use in the sentence 由于资金缺乏，工程不得不中途停了下来.