President Xi Jinping     1    (sign) a presidential order on Tuesday to award four people national medals and honorary titles for their outstanding contributions     2    fighting the COVID-19 pandemic(流行病). Zhong Nanshan, 84, an excellent disease expert, was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the     3    (high) national honor, for his outstanding work in fighting COVID-19 in China. Three others were also awarded the “People’s Hero” national honorary title for helping fight against the novel coronavirus(新冠病毒). They are Zhang Boli, a     4    (tradition) Chinese medicine expert; Zhang Dingyu, head of Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital;     5    Chen Wei, a medical scientist who made major achievements in COVID-19-related basic research.

Zhong also has long been devoted to the research, prevention and    6    (treat) of major infectious and chronic respiratory diseases(慢性呼吸病), and has a variety of     7     (achievement). He was a major figure in the fight against the severe acute respiratory syndrome(综合症状) outbreak in 2003 in China. Following the COVID-19 outbreak, the Chinese government encouraged the country    8    (control) the disease in Wuhan, Hubei province, after the city was locked down in late January. More than 42,000 medical workers from across the country     9    (send) to Hubei to fight the disease. The pandemic has been     10    (effective) placed under control on the Chinese mainland since early March.

When I was in my first year of college, I felt hopeless, lonely and very depressed.     1     one such day, I was walking from class across campus to catch my bus home, head down, fighting tears of despair, when     2     old man came along the sidewalk toward me. I     3    (not see) him before. Embarrassed at being seen in such an emotional mess, I turned my head away and tried to hurry past. I thought he would walk on by, but he moved     4     he was directly in front of me, waited, and then smiled.

    5     (look) into my eyes, this stranger spoke in a quiet voice, “    6     is wrong will pass. You’re going to be OK. Just hang on.” I cannot explain the impact of that moment. He gave me one thing I had lost     7     (complete): hope. I looked for him on campus     8     (thank) him, but never saw     9     (he) again.

That was thirty years ago. I have never forgotten that moment,     10     taught me to give hope to others whenever I see them in distress (悲痛，苦恼).

It was a very cold afternoon. I was on the bus    1    my children when it started to rain.

    2    my house was only two blocks away, it was not a pleasant walk with two little children. A truck passed us.I tried     3    (get) a ride but failed. My little boy began to cry. I was convinced that things might become worse and nobody would help us on such     4    terrible day.

A few minutes later，    5    truck drove by, but to my surprise, I saw it     6    (pull) back and the driver looking directly at us.

A young man put the window down. “Hey, here’s an umbrella for you, please take     7    . ” He called out. I stood there，    8    (feel) very surprised. “Come on, give this to your mummy，” he said to my     9    (old) son. I accepted the offer and expressed my     10    (thank) to him.

This man might have needed the umbrella for himself later during the day, but he gave it to me. It was a lesson to me that it’s possible to give without expecting anything in return.

Scientists usually have to do thousands of     1    (experiment)in order to prove something new or true. They often fail,     2     they never give up.

My neighbour     3    (be)a scientist. He studies chemistry. He is always working alone in     4    (he)lab, trying to figure out all the mysteries that make him     5    (puzzle). One day, when I met him, he had just come back     6     work. Tired as he was, he     7    (sound)so excited. Then I noticed that he was wearing shoes     8     did not match. He must have been working too hard to notice that!

Now I have come to realize that it’s good for you     9    (do)a job that interests you. You will be absorbed in it, and push yourself hard with it     10    (happy).

“Du Fu: China’s Greatest Poet”, a 58-minute documentary released recently on BBC, introduces Du Fu to the Western world for the first time    1     the form of documentary. In the film, Michael Wood, one of BBC’s most popular hosts, visited a number of Chinese    2     (city) to retrace Du’s steps. The documentary invited well-known British actor Ian McKellen,     3     played Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings movies,     4     (read)15 of Du’s poems that have been translated into English.

Born in 712, Du Fu lived through the violent fall of China’s brilliant Tang Dynasty. He had the desire to serve his country, but his life    5    (destroy) by the An Lushan Rebellion of 755. Of all     6     poems he wrote, 500 have been preserved over the ages. For generations he     7     (be) the guardian of the moral conscience (良知) of the nation.

The documentary compared Du to Shakespeare to help audiences     8    (well) understand the poet’s great achievements in literature. It also highlighted Chinese poetry, noting that its 3000-year-old history makes     9    the oldest living tradition in the world.

During an interview, the director even quoted a line from Du to encourage the people    10     (suffer) from pandemics (流行病).