The proportion of children    1    (have) access to the Internet before primary school is continuing to rise, according to a report    2     (release) on Wednesday that calls for improved Internet literacy education and more protection of minors. The report said 175 million minors     3     (use) the Internet in China last year,     4    the rate of internet access among children and teenagers reaching 93.1%.32.9% of primary school students were found     5    (begin) surfing the Internet before they started school, and the rate was increasing, meaning there is a    6    (great) need for more Internet skills education for families, better online content supervision and     7    (manage) and a targeted protection mechanism for minors. With the Internet now     8    indispensable part of daily life,     9     is important for adults to put it into perspective for minors and show them    10    to use it properly.

With the spread of the novel coronavirus(冠状病毒), more and more employers are asking their employees to work     1     (remote). But for workers with physical disabilities and chronical(难以治愈的) illnesses, remote work isn’t     2     foreign concept. Now these workers suggest that businesses    3     (recognize) the benefits of telework and try hard to make it available.

Patrick Cokley, who works for a managed care company in Washington, D.C., and has low vision, encourages employers     4     (rethink) telework as a tool anyone can use and to put planning into it. He believes     5     employers successfully make remote work happen, workers with autoimmune disorders or chronic pain, who might not typically be seen as disabled, will take a(an)     6    (active)part in their work than ever before.

Taryn Williams, the managing     7     (direct) of the Poverty to Prosperity program once recommended the Job Accommodation Network to employers, which until now     8       (adapt) to answer a lot of questions managers have, such as how to measure performance. To employees Patrick hotly said, “When dealing with remote work, you need to set yourself some long-term     9     (goal), you need to keep up on deliverables(应交付的产品), and you need a way     10     interacting with supervisors. “

TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE

6 October 2015

This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Tu Youyou (co-winner), the research of     1    led to the discovery of artemisinin, a crucial new treatment for malaria. Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and has led to     2    (improve) health for millions of people. Over 200 million people around the world get malaria each year, and about 600, 000 die from it. Artemisinin has become a vital part of the treatment for malaria, and     3    (think) to save 100, 000 lives a year in Africa alone.

A university in southeast China has a new server in     1     (it) canteen making noodles for the students. The video     2     (show) a robotic chef working in the kitchen and making noodles     3     dough (面团) at South China Agricultural University.

It was given human-like facial features (特征),     4     (wear) a face mask, hat and chef’s uniform. The robot was designed     5     (improve) the traditional way of making “Dao Xiao Mian”,     6     is a specialty in Shanxi Province in northern China.

    7     (traditional), a chef will hold a large piece of dough in one hand and     8     knife in the other before starting to peel strips (条) off the dough. The strips will then fall into the pot of boiling water and cook into noodles. A student said: “I’ve heard that there are always long     9     (queue) at the knife-cut noodle stall at the canteen.”

However, web users on Chinese social media said the robot chef     10     (be) not something new. The use of robots in restaurants is becoming increasingly popular in China.