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In 1941, Dr Lin became the first Chinese woman ever to be appointed director of the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital, but just a few months later, the department     1     (close) because of the war.     2     (think) of all the people still in need of help, Dr Lin opened a private clinic. She charged very low fees to treat patients and often reduced costs for poor patients. At times she was even seen     3     (ride) a donkey to faraway villages to provide medical care.

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TCM, or Traditional Chinese Medicine, is a profound (深远的) pathway to create the life you truly want to live and the life you were born to live. It’s a timeless bridge,     1    can start and support     2     (grow) in every life dimension—physical, mental and emotional.

TCM has an ancient but completely modern healing system and it has the power to unlock your true potential and help you develop and use your own unique talents.     3     (it) wisdom and ability to understand individual health needs empowers each person with a way     4     (unite) body, mind and spirit-the foundation for lasting and authentic health. TCM teaches you how to live     5     balanced and harmonious life.

It’s true     6     TCM is one of the oldest healing systems on the planet. It has     7     (actual) been in continuous practice for thousands of years. How can something so old still work for people living today?

TCM can     8     (apply) to help heal anyone no matter what year it is because it’s rooted in unchanging natural law, which has its source beyond time. The unique medicine grew out of     9     (observe) carefully how everything in reality functions at the deepest, invisible levels and interacts with the surface or visible physical levels. It’s the medicine of extraordinary relationships. Every TCM principle     10     (reflect) and harmonizes with the relationships that exist within natural law.

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     In 1931, I was born disabled. I couldn’t     1    (straight) my legs. Dad would carry me when we went into town. Once     2    he was holding me, I told him I wanted to be a football player. He said, “I don’t think you are going to be much of    3    unique athlete.” This was my motivation for years    4     (come). I had outgrown(因长大而不再)my disability by the time I was 9,     5    I weighed only 40 pounds and needed to build muscle and strength.

I knew that a bicycle would help. I bought    6    at the local shop and started riding it to school. By the time I was 13, I    7    (become) the fastest runner in grade school, and at 15, I was the fastest runner in high school.

I made farmwork a part of my recovering routine. I     8    work in the fields at 7:30 p. m. and then run two miles. Picking up wheat was a big thing but I did it all by hand. Finally, all the trainings    9    off and now I am working as a public speech maker giving courses    10    disability recovering.

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When we go outdoors in winter,cold wind gets through our clothes,     1    (hit)our body parts fiercely. Then we may feel cold. How do we feel cold? Actually human skin is filled with temperature-sensing nerve receptors named TRPs,which receive stimuli (刺激) from the environment.     2    (sense) the cold，the brain uses one of the receptors called TRPM8.When the TRPM8 is hit by stimuli,it will send an electric signal to the brain,    3    understands the signal as “cold”.

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Foreign Accent Syndrome(综合症)

31-year-old Emily’s life changed greatly in January, when a mysterious condition left her unable to speak for two months. She     1     (complain) about headaches for two weeks before one day her colleagues then noticed that her speech had become slow and unclear, both indicators of a stroke.    2       she was rushed to the hospital, Emily had lost her ability to speak completely. After running some tests, doctors ruled out the stroke, instead     3     (blame) her voice loss on some sort of brain injury.

After spending three weeks in the hospital, Emily was still unable to speak and relied solely on basic sign language she had picked up at work and a text-to-speech app on her phone     4    (communicate). Encouraged by her doctor, Emily went on a vacation in Thailand. A few days into the vacation, she started to speak again.

How     5     (shock) it was when Emily originally noticed her Eastern European accents, but even more so when she noticed that sometimes her accent would change out of the blue, to Polish, Italian and even French. Although she doesn’t know the reason     6     may help explain her condition, she has noticed that it has something to do with how tired she is. In March of 2020, she was officially diagnosed with     7     was commonly called Foreign Accent Syndrome.

“I was so excited when my voice started coming back but now I don’t even recognize the voice that comes out of my mouth, it doesn’t sound     8     me,” Emily told the reporters.

Now her voice is back, but unfortunately she has to deal with discrimination(歧视) from people who think she is an immigrant, and has taken time off work because stress     9     only make her condition worse.

Emily’s case sounds shockingly similar to     10     of Michelle Myers, an Arizona woman who never traveled outside of the United States, but woke up to speaking in multiple accents-British, Irish and Australian- after experiencing severe headaches. She too was diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome.