ORBIS is an international charitable organization (国际慈善组织). Its main job     1     (be) to help blind people all over the world.

ORBIS uses a flying eye hospital     2     (visit) poor countries. On the plane, volunteer doctors have operations (手术) on blind people.

The plane is also used as     3     teaching centre. Some doctors and nurses from poor countries can come to the plane to learn about eye     4     (problem). Then they can help     5     (many) blind people.

ORBIS     6     (train) and taught over 35, 000 doctors and nurses so far. Every year they travel around the world     7     (help) thousands of people.     8    , they need your help to carry on with their work. For just $38, you can help one person see; for $380, you can bring light     9     ten people; for $1,300, you can help train a doctor. No matter how much money you can donate, your love will help     10     open their eyes to the world.

Wuhan is the capital city of Hubei. It is a beautiful, large and very important city in China. During this Spring Festival, the city received tons of    1    (attentions) because a novel coronavirus (新型冠状病毒) appeared there and spread around the country.

Several days before the Spring Festival, Wuhan was    2    (lock) and the city became quiet and still. However, a big fight was going on there. It was the fight against the novel coronavirus. The doctors and nurses there became    3    (braver)warriors (勇士) in masks (口罩), glasses and protective suits. They were racing against the clock. Lots of     4    (they) had to work over ten hours every day, drinking little or no water. They risked their     5    (healthy) and even lives to treat the patients. In such cases, almost no one stepped back or gave up. Thousands of doctors and nurses from other cities and provinces in China went to Wuhan     6     (support) them. There is no doubt that they were all     7    (hero) in the fight.

Besides doctors and nurses, everyone in our country was     8    (play) their own part in the fight against the novel coronavirus.

This Spring Festival was not as     9    (fun) as it usually is. It even brought us to tears many times. However, we will never     10     ( forget ) those difficult days, not only for the awful virus, but also for the efforts we made together and the lessons we learned.

【推荐3】Zhong Nanshan is a doctor in Guangdong, who saved many people's lives in 2003. SARS broke     1    in Guangdong that year. Later, it spread     2    /əˈkrɒs/ China and other parts of the world.    3    (hundred) of patients even died from the disease.

Many doctors and nurses got SARS when they treated patients. So everyone was     4    of it. But Zhong was brave enough to fight the disease. Zhong spent days and nights to find the    5    / kɔːz/of the   disease. And with his way of treating, many patients    6    (begin) to get better. Zhong finally won people's trust.

In early 2020, a disease called Novel Corona Virus Disease(COVID-19)hit Wuhan. It spread     7    (quick)around and tens of thousands of Chinese people fell ill. Zhong led his team to Wuhan to fight the     8    (ill). Zhong's team took many measures to cure the patients with COVID-19. He advised people to wear masks, wash hands often, stay at home and not to go to crowded places.

Zhong likes sports and could still play basketball when he was 67.Now, at the     9    of 84, he still treats patients in the hospital and teaches young doctors.

We think Zhong is a     10    /ˈhɪərəʊ/and a fighter, but he says, "I am just a doctor."

Growing Hope

Known     1     Father of Hybrid Rice(杂交水稻), Yuan Longping created hybrid rice that helps feed the world. For most Chinese people, rice is     2     important part of almost every meal. But for Yuan, rice was his life-long career(事业). On May 22, Yuan died at 91. People around the world was sad to hear that.

In the 1960s, people in China didn’t have enough food     3     (eat). Many people even died because     4     this. Yuan was sad to see this. He decided to work on a kind of hybrid rice. At the time, other scientists didn’t think hybrid rice was possible.     5     Yuan wanted to try anyway. He spent four years     6    (look) for wild(野生的) rice that could be crossed(杂交) with other plants. In 1973, he     7    (grow) the world’s first hybrid rice. Farmers can grow it on many     8    (difference) kinds of land.   It can fight bad weather,     9    .

Yuan was a famous scientist. But he called     10     (he) a farmer. He spent most of his time in the field(田地). Even in March this year, he was working in a field in Hainan.