How a nurse races against time to save lives?

Zhong Xiaofeng is the head nurse of the ICU ward (病房) in a hospital of Wuhan City. She has made great efforts with her workmates to fight the COVID﹣19 for more than _______ months. Thanks to her team’s hard work, more and more patients have been well so far.

In the news press (新闻发布会) on March 8th, 2020 in Wuhan, Zhong shared her working _______ during the past months.

“I don’t think I risk my health every day, _______ I have no time to be afraid. Any medical worker _______ try his or her best to save more patients,” Zhong said. “What I should do is to provide patients with medical knowledge and professional nursing skills.”

“The ICU ward is a place where we face life and death every day. Nurses must be very _______ to save and look after patients, or any careless step may lead to further infection (感染) or even death,” Zhong answered a reporter in the news press.

“Although we overwork every day, _______ in our team has complained (抱怨). We are even encouraged by the patients,” Zhong recalled. “One day, a young nurse _______ after walking out of the ward. Out of my expectation, she told me it was because a patient she was looking after _______ became well. She _______ her efforts were not in vain (徒劳). We __________ our achievements when every patient gets well. I hope I can hug my family members and kiss my daughter after we win this war.”

As the founder of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma is one of the richest men in China. However, you can’t imagine how hard he became a successful businessman.

Ma was born on September 10, 1964. He was good at English but bad at math. That is why he took part in the College Entrance Exam three times until he was enrolled (招收) as an English major student in Hangzhou Normal University. His English was excellent and he became president of the Students’ Union of his school.

After graduation in 1988, Ma worked as an English teacher at a college for five years and gave up his job to start his own business later. In 1995 when he went to Seattle, America on his business trip, he was surprised to find no advertisements about Chinese beer could be found online. Since then, he has spent his time and energy on the development of Chinese on-line shopping. He was even considered crazy in the beginning. However, more and more people were convinced of his great business ability when he set up his companies, such as Alibaba in 1999 and Taobao in 2003. In September 2014, Alibaba even went public in New York. Jack Ma has been caring about Chinese teaching since he retired (退休) from Alibaba in 2018.

“Today is difficult, tomorrow is more difficult, but the day after tomorrow is beautiful,” Jack Ma always tells young people not to be afraid of difficulties this way.

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