【推荐1】Time to think fast

In the fight against the new coronavirus, Chinese people have come up with creative solutions to different problems.

All for masks（面罩）

During the outbreak, medical supplies (供应) like masks are needed by ___________people. And their prices become higher and higher. _____________production, over 3,000     Chinese companies have changed their production lines to make medical equipment.

For example, a company that ___________make clothes spent 55 hours changing their production lines and is now able to make 1,200 protective medical suits every day. Several automakers in China have also turned ___________production lines into mask-making lines. Guangzhou Automobile is now able to make one   ___________masks per day.

Amazing speed

In cities like Wuhan ___________have large numbers of infected people, more hospital beds are needed. The _______way to solve this problem is to build makeshift hospitals.

Within less than 15 days, two hospitals ___________. They provide about 2,600 beds.

The amazing speed impressed many people   _______________the world.

“China has a record of getting things done fast even for monumental projects like this,” said Yanzhong Huang, one of ______________senior officers for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. “This is very hard for Westerners to imagine,” Huang added.

【推荐2】Time to think fast

In the fight against the new coronavirus, Chinese people have come up with creative solutions to different problems.

All for masks（面罩）

During the outbreak, medical supplies (供应) like masks are needed by ___________people. And their prices become higher and higher. _____________production, over 3,000     Chinese companies have changed their production lines to make medical equipment.

For example, a company that ___________make clothes spent 55 hours changing their production lines and is now able to make 1,200 protective medical suits every day. Several automakers in China have also turned ___________production lines into mask-making lines. Guangzhou Automobile is now able to make one   ___________masks per day.

Amazing speed

In cities like Wuhan ___________have large numbers of infected people, more hospital beds are needed. The _______way to solve this problem is to build makeshift hospitals.

Within less than 15 days, two hospitals ___________. They provide about 2,600 beds.

The amazing speed impressed many people   _______________the world.

“China has a record of getting things done fast even for monumental projects like this,” said Yanzhong Huang, one of ______________senior officers for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. “This is very hard for Westerners to imagine,” Huang added.

【推荐3】Television has now come to nearly every family. It has ______ a very important part in ______ life. School children in the US watch TV about twenty-five hours ______. Some parents think the television is good ______ their children because it helps them to learn about their country and the world. ______ the help of some educational programs, children do ______ in school.

______ parents do not let their children ______ TV too much. They say that some of the TV programs are not good and children often ______ bad things from them.

Man have invented many things which have brought us much convenience (方便). Television is one of them. If it ______ carefully planned, watching TV can be good for children.

【推荐2】It was a cold windy winter day and I was walking home from work. Then I noticed _________ old lady in the street. She was walking on the sidewalk in her house slippers (拖鞋). She was probably _________ her eighties, and she was holding some letters in her hands. I walked on to the traffic light.

When the light turned green, I pretended (假装) to check my phone and _________ by something on the road. After a while, she caught up with me. In this neighborhood, drivers often drive wildly through red lights and stop signs. So it is _________ for the old to cross the road than the young ones.

When she reached me, I turned to her _________ touched her gently on the arm. She smiled and _________ my hand in hers and held it.Hand-in-hand, we were waiting for the light _________. When the light turned green, we walked together _________ across the street and she dropped the letters in the mailbox. Then I took _________ back across the street.

As I walked the rest of the way home. I could still feel __________ was left in my hand. People say the first language of all humans is touch. And even now, I can still feel the power of touch.

My brother Jason is a university student. Last year he ___________ Germany and stayed for two months. I was surprised that Jason was able to have such a long holiday, ___________ he never had any money.

“How did you make it, Jason?” I asked. “I thought you were just going to stay for two weeks.”

“It was not difficult,” Jason answered. “I got ___________ job.”

“A job?” I asked in surprised. “___________ did you do?”

“I gave English lessons to a shop manager.” Jason answered. “___________ name is Tom. We have become good ___________.”

“But you are not a teacher.” I said.

“I told Tom I couldn’t ___________.” Jason explained. “But he still would like to have conversation lessons. He wanted to practise his English. He had a lot of American customers, so it was important for him ___________ English. I spent three hours a day ___________ to him. In return, he gave me a room, three meals a day and a little pocket money.”

“____________ your student learn much English?” I asked.

“I don’t know,” Jason said, “But I learnt a lot of German.”