I’m a specially trained clown doctor     1     job is to cheer up patients, their families and the hospital staff by     2     (do) magic tricks, singing songs and telling stories and silly jokes. I chose this career because     3    the experience of going to hospital when I was     4    kid, and I     5    (spend) much of my time there feeling frightened and more than a little bored. So I think a clown doctor can help people by entertaining them.

    6    (wear) a white coat, my curly rainbow wig and a big red nose, I walk into the waiting area, where there is a familiar atmosphere of     7    (bore) and tension. There, I spot a little girl called Lara whose ankle has got injured and is twice its normal size. The doctors and nurses are treating her injury. To get her attention, I begin to do a magic trick,     8     has made her scared and anxious look replaced with loud laughter. Seeing their daughter so much happier has in turn made Lara’s parents more     9     (relax).

I hope clown doctors can help make the hospital a friendlier place to visit. After all, it really is true that “laughter is the    10     (good)medicine”．

So, you are interested in becoming a good journalist but don’t know where to start? Well, there are     1     couple of things you should put on your list of priority.

Firstly, you need to be skilled at writing. The information     2     (involve) in a complex story may come from dozens of sources. Good journalists need to organize all this information     3     (clear) to give an accurate account of what is happening.

Secondly, you must have a natural curiosity     4     things that are happening, even though they may appear to be minor matters. When something newsworthy comes about, it may escape the attention of ordinary people     5    , good journalists are sensitive enough to notice the event and draw public attention to it.

Finally, good journalists     6     (commit) to revealing the truth. According to Noam Chomsky, “The duty of journalists is to tell the truth. Journalism means you go back to the actual     7     (fact), you look at the documents, you discover     8     the record is, and you report it that way.” To do this, journalists need to investigate an event thoroughly.

    9     (sum) up, being a good journalist requires writing skills, curiosity and commitment to finding the     10     (true). Good luck!

It was Zhou Yang’s first day at the office of China Daily. He couldn’t go out on a story    1    his own because he wasn’t     2    (experience) enough. His new boss Hu Xin had a talk with him about how to be good journalist.

A good journalist needs to be curious and can acquire     3    (inform) by asking many different questions. Besides, it’s important for a journalist to have nose for a story,    4    ( know) if someone is telling the     5    (true). And while interviewing people, a journalist has to listen to the answer carefully because he has to listen for the     6    (detail)facts and prepare the next question depending on what people say. If     7    (possibility), a journalist can use a recorder to get the facts straight.

What’s more, Hu Xin told Zhou Yang a case     8    someone accused their journalists of getting the wrong end of the stick. But at last, it proved     9    they suggested was right. The talk    10    (strong) influenced Zhou Yang’s life as a journalist.