Recently political party leaders mom around the world    1     (express )their appreciation for the Communist Party of China (CPC)for widely sharing China’s experience and practice in    2     (it) fight against COVID-19.

“While    3    (successful) preventing the spread of the virus at home, China has been doing all it can     4     (support)and help other countries in need,     5     fully shows the spirit of a community with a shared future for mankind that asks all to stick together and help each other,” they said in messages     6     (address)to the International Department of the CPC Central Committee.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama thought highly     7    china's astonishing speed and striking     8    (measure) in the antivirus battle, and added “China has achieved     9     major victory over the disease”.

Hatoyama said, “The Japanese people have been deeply touched by Chinas helping hand when Japan is short of     10    (medicine) supplies, and greatly moved by the CPC’s sharing of China's anti-epidemic experience and practice in letters sent to Japan. China’s actions are a true picture of the Xi-proposed vision of a community with a shared future for mankind.”

Zhong Nanshan, an 83-year-old doctor     1     became a household name 17 years ago for “daring to speak in the fight     2     SARS is the public face of China’s effort to control a new strain of coronavirus.

In early 2020, a disease     3    (call)COVID-19 hit Wuhan. The new virus has frightened millions of Chinese who are traveling for the Lunar New Year holiday. Despite     4    (he)advanced age, Zhong     5    (appoint) to lead the investigation into the new virus. Then Zhong and his team took     6    (measure) to fight against the illness.     7     added up worries about the outbreak was his announcement that the virus could spread between humans. He advised people to wear masks and wash hands     8    (frequent).

    9    (be) a respiratory(呼吸道的) diseases specialist, Zhong gave media his candid(坦诚的)，pessimistic assessment of the severity of the SARS crisis.

Zhong was hailed for his integrity(诚实正直) and     10    (remain) a public figure ever since, paying attention to public health issues such as air pollution and food safety.

The landmark success of herbal expert Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman     1     (win) a Nobel Prize in Science,     2     (arouse) an extreme sense of national pride and hopes on the future of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the past few days. Tu, born in 1930, shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Irish-born William Campbell and Japan’s Omura for her discoveries     3     (concern) a treatment for malaria（疟疾）.

She discovered Artemisinin（青蒿素）, a drug     4     has significantly reduced the death rates for patients suffering from malaria. “Artemisinin is a gift for the world people from the traditional Chinese medicine. It is of great significance for curing malaria and other infectious diseases and for protecting the health of the world people.” Tu said in Beijing. The prize winning is     5     honor for China’s science cause and traditional Chinese medicine in their course of reaching out to the world.

“Tu’s winning the prize signifies China’s prosperity and progress in     6     (science) and technological field, marks a great contribution of traditional Chinese medicine     7     the cause of human health. and shows China’s growing strengths and rising international standing,” Premier Li Keqiang said in a congratulatory letter on Monday evening.

In 1951, she     8     (admit) into Beijing University, majoring in pharmacognosy（生药学）. Since graduating from college in 1955, she has been a chief researcher and professor at the Beijing-based China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. In 2011, Tu won America’s respected Lasker Award for the anti-malaria therapy.

On Weibo, the breaking news has been sent by at least tens of thousands of users and received countless     9    (thumb-up). Netizen “Xiaoxie” wrote, “Now I feel     10     (true) proud of being a medical student.

As the saying goes, “A hero     1     (know) in the time of misfortune”. Zhong Nanshan is a hero like this. He is a doctor in Guangdong,     2     saved many people’s lives in 2003.

In 2003, SARS     3     (break) out in Guangdong. Later, it spread across China and other parts of the world. Patients coughed a lot and got fevers.     4     (hundred) of patients even died from the disease. Even many doctors and nurses got SARS when they treated patients. So, everyone was afraid of it. Zhong spent days and nights to find     5     cause of the disease. Thanks to his way of treating, many patients began to get     6     (good). Zhong finally won people’s trust.

In early 2020, a disease     7     (call) COVID-19 hit Wuhan. It spread around quickly and tens of thousands of people were infected. Zhong, 84, led     8     (he) team to fight the illness. Zhong’s team took many measures to cure the patients     9     COVID-19. He advised people to wear masks, wash hands     10     (frequent), stay at home and not to go to crowd places.

Now at the age of 84, Zhong still treats patients in the hospital and teaches young doctors.

TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE

This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Tu Youyou,     1    research led to the discovery of artemisinin(青蒿素), a new treatment for malaria. Over 200 million people around the world get malaria each year, and about 600, 000 die from it. Artemisinin is thought to save 100, 000 lives a year in Africa alone.

Tu Youyou, a     2     (commit) scientist, was born in Ningbo, China, on 30 December 1930, and graduated from Peking University Medical School in 1955.     3    she graduated, she worked at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. In 1967 the Chinese government formed a team of scientists     4    the objective of discovering a new treatment for malaria, and Tu Youyou was among the first researchers     5     (choose). In the beginning, Tu Youyou went to Hainan, where malaria was more common, to study malaria patients. In 1969, she became the head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts     6     (find) traditional botanical treatments for the disease. Her team examined over 2,000 old medical texts, and evaluated 280,000 plants. From their research they discovered and tested 380 ancient Chinese medical treatments     7    showed promise in the fight against malaria.

One medical text from the fourth century suggested     8     (use)the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever. Tu’s team tested a collection of dried wormwood leaves     9    found no effect. They then tried boiling fresh wormwood, and using the liquid obtained from this to treat malaria, but this did not work either. Their project got    10     (stick). However, Tu Youyou would not acknowledge defeat.