3 . That old saying “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” may hold some truth. In fact, one study found that in 2012, almost half of the deaths in America caused by heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes were linked to poor diet.

But knowing you should eat healthfully and actually doing it are two different things, and making the right choice isn’t any easier when a pound of grapes costs more than twice as much as a pound of spaghetti. The Fresh Food Pharmacy aims to change that. A program was created by Geisinger Health System, a hospital network in Pennsylvania. This pharmacy is similar to a grocery store stocked with fresh produce, lean meats and more. Even better, it’s all free.

Under the program, patients with type 2 diabetes are prescribed a week’s worth of food for their entire household. After the first year, all 180 participants improved in key health measurements, in particular their hemoglobin Ale levels( HbAlc), the gold standard for tracking blood sugar control.

In 2012, the costs associated with diabetes in the United States were $ 245 billion. Geisinger will spend only about $ 1,000 annually on each patient. David Feinberg, Geisinger’s CEO, calculates that “a decrease HbAlc of one point saves us about $ 8,000.’’ With many patients dropping three points, the program could save $24, 000 a year-as well as reduce the risk of blindness and other complications.

Geisinger isn’t the only organization experimenting with produce prescriptions. Nonprofits, hospitals, and even doctors’ offices around the country have programs that bring “food is medicine” concept to life. Boston Medical Center’s Preventive Food Pantry was the first such program in the country when it opened. Today it serves approximately 7,000 patients in a month.

The China International Search and Rescue Team (CISAR) was formed in 2001 and is now made up     1     several hundred rescue workers and about 20 sniffer dogs. The team brings help and hope to those whose lives are     2     (terrible) changed by a storm, flood, earthquake, or any other natural disaster.

After long and     3     (care) training, the team went on its first international rescue missions in 2003. It was the first time that Chinese team     4     (work) outside China, and the team won high praise for their bravery and skill.

Since then, the CISAR has completed many missions. The list of people to whom help has been given is long. The team treated more than 3,000 people     5     were injured in the 2006 earthquake in Indonesia，helped 2，500 wounded people after     6     earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010，and spent several months     7     (give) aid to over 25,000 victims of the 2010 floods in Pakistan.

Rescue workers are trained to be strong in both body and mind. It takes a lot of love and courage     8     (risk) one’s own life to save someone else’s. The     9     (member) of the CISAR have plenty of both and are always ready to go wherever help     10     (need).

5 . The signs appeared practically overnight. They’d been planted everywhere—in front of homes, along sidewalks, around the local high school. Each featured just a few uplifting words in simple black type: “Don’t Give Up,” “You Are Worthy of Love,” “Your Mistakes Do Not Define You.” The high school in Newberg, Oregon, had lost four students and three former graduates to kill themselves that year, so the town of 25, 000 instantly understood the messages.

Amy Wolff had done so, in part, because she’d lost her own teenage brother in an accident about 20 years earlier. It was compassion (同情) for compassion’s sake.

Yet as Wolff saw the deep emotion her sign inspired in her neighbors, she decided to step forward to share her message publicly. Instantly, her inbox was flooded with requests for more signs. Since then, the Don’t Give Up Movement has spread from Newberg to the hearts and yards of people in every state. Wolff charges only the cost of materials and shipping. “It’s a terrible business decision if we wanted to function like a business,” she says.

Chrisanne Moger commented on one of the movement’s posts about the need for one particular sign, “We’re All in This Together.” She thought it would really speak to a world huddling together under the cloud of COVID-19. Wolff agreed, and she received 750 orders within a week of its creation. A mother in Colorado, unable to travel during the quarantine (隔离), contacted the organization after her stepson’s sudden death. “I saw one of your signs recently and it was a touching message from above to hang on.” she wrote.

Aware of the added emotional challenges isolation brings, the Don’t Give Up Movement has since offered to send handwritten letters of support to anyone in quarantine who needs it.

6 . When a corporation is formed, it issues stock (股票), which is sold or given to individuals. Ownership of stock entitles you to vote in the election of a corporation’s directors, so in theory holders of stock control the company. In practice, however, in most large corporations, ownership is separated from control of the firm. Most stockholders have little input into the decisions a corporation makes. Instead, corporations are often controlled by their managers, who often run them for their own benefit as well as for the owners. The reason is that the owners’ control of management is limited.

A large percent of most corporations’ stock is not even controlled by the owners; instead,   is controlled by financial institutions such as mutual funds (financial institutions that invest individuals’ money for them) and by pension funds (financial institutions that hold people’s money for them until it is to be paid out to them upon their retirement). Thus, ownership of I Corporations is another step removed from individuals. Studies have shown that 80 percent of the largest 200 corporations in the US are essentially controlled by managers and have little effective stockholder control.

Why is the question of who controls a firm important? Because economic theory assumes the goal of business owners is to maximize profits , which would be true of corporations if stockholders made the decisions. Managers don’t have the same motivation to maximize profits that owners do. There’s pressure on managers to maximize profits, but that pressure can often be weak or ineffective. An example of how firms deal with this problem involves stock options. Many companies give their managers stock options-rights to buy stock at a low price - to encourage them to worry about the price of their company’s stock. But these stock options dilute (稀释)the value of company ownership and decrease profits per share and can give managers an incentive (激励, 刺激)to overstate profits through accounting tricks, as happened at Enron, Xerox, and a number of other firms.