Countries receiving Chinese vaccines

China is providing vaccine aid to 53 developing countries     1    (include) Pakistan, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Monday. China has exported or is in     2    process of exporting vaccines to 22 countries, the spokesperson told a routine press briefing.

China has taken concrete steps     3    (honor)its pledge to make vaccines global public goods, once available, with greater affordability and     4     (accessible) in developing countries, Wang said. China     5    (join) COVAX up to now and decided to offer 10 million vaccines to the    6    (internation) sharing scheme,     7    (main) to help meet the needs of developing countries, he     8    (add).

"China will continue its vaccine cooperation with relevant     9    (country), offer support within its capability and make concrete contributions to securing a victory    10    the pandemic as soon as possible and to building a global community of health for all," Wang said.

2 . I was fifteen and a high school freshman when I started rapidly losing weight. I was about 130 pounds, and I was ________ ten pounds every couple of weeks. I couldn’t understand why I was always hungry, thirsty, and never ________.Every night I ________ five or six times, feeling like I had to go to the bathroom, but I never really had to. Finally, I decided to go to the hospital to ________ nothing bad was going on.

I remembered being ________ in the hospital, confused, hungry, and with an extremely ________ blood sugar level. The doctors and nurses thought I might pass out, so they injected me and told me the worst news I could have imagined— tests showed that I had Type 1 juvenile diabetes. I was so ________ that the only question I could think to ask was, “Am I going to die?” A nurse told me to go out, enjoy a meal with my family, and ________, because tomorrow my new, difficult life would begin.

I don’t remember what time I had to be at the hospital, ________ I know it was early. Three nurses, one dietician, and a doctor all trained me, over the course of two days, to ________ me. Every needle hurt, but in some way I began to feel ________ every time I was able to think about the needles without crying.

Now, nearly three years later, I still remember the ________ when the doctors told me I was a Type 1 diabetic. I’m ________ when I look back that I was able to be strong, and that my family and friends supported me. I’m now two months shy of eighteen. To this day, I have had 3,38 needle injections, but each of them helps me to remember I must be strong. ________, I am grateful for my disease—it has made me the person I am today, and I would never ________who I am.

3 . Thomas Derksen was born in Germany in 1988 and married Chinese girl, Zhu Liping, in2014.   After that, they chose to live in Shanghai. One weekend he went to the Snake Artificial Island in Shanghai to fish with his Chinese father-in-law.    1    　　　　　　　　　             

On the journey to the island, Derksen's father-in-law, " old Zhu", called five of his friends one by one promising to give them each two fish. However, it proved difficult to catch more than the two fish which Derksen hooked.    2    In the end, to honor the promises, they went to a nearby market to buy a dozen fish.

Derksen describes this funny thing in his German book about his trying to win over his wife's tough Chinese father. The book published in April has sold more than 20 ,000 copies in Germany.     3    The book has been so far translated into Chinese , titled Meet the Tiger Father-in-Law. The first run of 5 ,100 copies has sold out.

What caused Derksen to write this book? In fact he had been thinking of how to let German people learn more about China.     4    . So he wrote down all the funny things that he had experienced in China to help German readers better know about Chinese culture.

    5    . Despite the convenience of the Internet and social media, it is common for people to harbor cultural stereotypes( 刻板印象) of other countries. Derksen said, " To change people's stereotypical view of another country, one of the best ways is to visit the country in person , to take a look and to experience the local customs and traditions People often communicate with each other better when that is the case".