1 . Wu Ming, a young German born after 1995, is a big fan of Chinese culture. As he thought some diseases can’t be treated _______ with Western medicine, he decided to _______traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In 2015, Wu came to Henan province, where a strong TCM culture can be _______. After a year of learning, he _______ the language barrier and started to learn Chinese medicine. Wu always _______ some Chinese herbal medicine by himself to know their flavours and effects, just like Shen Nong, a character in Chinese legend. In Wu’s opinion, TCM is one of the best-preserved _______ of Chinese culture.

Studying TCM also _______ Wu’s mind and lifestyle. He used to be _______ to electronic devices, playing video games every night. Instead of being trapped in the fast-paced but unhealthy daily _______, he now lives a(n) ________ and peaceful life, practicing good habits like drinking tea and reading.

Wu ________ what he has learned to help his family. He always provides his family members with some advice about staying fit after ________ their skin or tongues online. Over time, his family gradually began to understand his ________ for TCM.

Wu thinks there’s no big difference between China and Western countries. “________ comes from being out of touch”, said Wu. He plans to run a traditional Chinese clinic in Germany, which could serve as a(n) ________ between the two countries and publicize TCM and its culture.

2 . Most young people are always on their phones, which may upset many people. ___________, a group called Girl Scouts are receiving _________ for setting up their first walk-in clinic for elderly people, who have difficulty understanding how to ___________ the secrets of their smart phones.

Each teen spent at least an hour of one-on-one time with their oldsters. Based on their _________ knowledge, each Girl Scout was assigned to ___________ different aspects of Android and Apple phones.

Some of the oldsters actually wanted to take part in e-commerce (电子商务), and needed help to _________ a payment account on their smart phones while others simply had _________ when learning how to send messages to their family members. "I was teaching this older woman how to _________, and the first thing she did was to send a message to her daughter,” one of the Scouts said. “How ___________ it was! It just made me feel really, really happy.”

In addition to arranging group lessons for all of the seniors to ____________ together at the end of the clinic, the youngsters even printed out brochures and guides for the seniors to take home in case ____________ seniors would encounter problems with their smart phones in the future.

The eighth graders earned their “Silver Award,, for their job. After experiencing the ____________ of their project, the girls hope to organize more ____________ in the near future. “Those girls were just great,” said Nancy, a great-grandmother who once ____________ the clinic. “They were ready for us and had a very mature attitude about answering our questions, and they ______________ the praise.

3 . At the Abu Dhabi Special Games in 2019, Li Xiang won two golds, four silvers and a bronze. Li Xiang is 15. But his _________ age is 5 to 6 because the teen suffers from Down’s Syndrome, causing his physical and mental retardation(迟缓). Yet he proved to be a _________ at the Special Olympics World Summer Games.

When Li was diagnosed (诊断) with the _________ soon after his birth, it was for his family the end of the world. _________, when Li was 10, Chinese Olympic _________ champion Li Xiaopeng visited the school where Li Xiang was and _________ for those special students there. The act made Li Xiang _________ to gymnastics. He was determined to become an Olympic _________ like Li Xiaopeng, which brought a _________ of hope to his family.

It was not easy for a __________ child to practice gymnastics. Li __________ from coordination(协调) and __________ problems and was very sensitive when facing failure. However, with the __________ of his coach and parents, in 2015, at the age of 11, Li Xiang __________ his first Special Olympics as one of the youngest competitors. He __________ a gold, two silvers and two bronzes.

“Though years of sports haven’t improved Li Xiang’s __________, I can feel his progress in life, in self- discipline and in __________ with other people,” his mother said. It is difficult for people to __________ the hardship Li Xiang’s family has suffered to __________ up their special child and their happiness on seeing the progress he has achieved so far.

“I __________ sports. It makes me feel happy and energetic,” Li Xiang told reporters after his events.

7 . Once a neglected(无人照管的）piece of land, Chapel Hill High School Community Garden has been changed into a productive space.

In early fall 2008, Kristen's teacher mentioned the_______empty land next to the school’s tennis court(球场). The 50x70-foot area was overgrown with _______ ; on it stood an old greenhouse covered with dirt. It was the_______place for a garden, the teacher said. But who had the time and interest to_______the mess? “It sounds great and I can’t_______to do the job, ”says Kristen, who was the president of the high schools environmental club, the Green Tigers. With six members at first, tidying up the garden seemed_______and the project seemed possible.“We realized we could make a _______ ,”she says.

_______, growing season was three months away. “It was enough time to get the land_______,”says Kristen. But there was a __________.”We were Green Tigers without green fingers,”she says.The students didn’t__________what to grow, and preparing the yard for planting was more__________than they’d expected. “At first I thought we should make the garden__________ as soon as possible,”Kristen says. “But cleaning it up was the__________thing to do before researching what would grow well.”

Soon the garden’s changes encouraged other kids, parents and teachers to__________. Students received service credits(学分)for__________like cleaning out the greenhouse and planting flowers, but soon they were stopping by the garden__________ to stay there. Local gardeners__________ways to help with the growing. In spring 2010, the Green Tigers had their first __________harvest: mustard greens, potatoes and onions. It was enough to fill 50 bags with produce for a salad feast(盛宴)for the 100 volunteers-most of them students-who had __________a piece of Chapel Hill under Kristen’s direction.

8 . When 69-year-old Dobrgyal started looking after the wild macaques (猕猴) at a scenic spot in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, their population _________ only 40-50. Today, 18 years later, that same place is _________ to over 2,800 Tibetan macaques.

Dobrgyal’s relationship with the Tibetan macaques has been described as a _________ love story between man and monkey. A former _________ keeper, Dobrgyal has been driving 5km almost every day just to feed the macaques, show them _________ and make sure they are healthy. _________ , he has even taken some of the sick animals home and _________ them back to health.

China.org reports that Dobrgyal has been the only one working as a _________ in Gongbo’gyamda area for the last 16 years, and _________ him as the main reason that the macaque population is rising.

Tibetan macaques are a/an __________ species in China, and their food is provided by the Gongbo’gyamda forestry bureau(局), but it’s Dobrgyal who loads the bags in his trucks and __________ it to the monkeys personally. Thanks to his __________ , the macaques have become very __________ with tourists, many of whom also help to __________ the animals.

Having dedicated almost two decades of his life to the macaques, Dobrgyal now __________ himself about what will happen to them if his physical __________ no longer allows him to take care of them properly.

“Now I’m so old, nearly 70 years old,” Dobrgyal said recently. “In the __________ of my life I will do my best to take care of the monkeys, but if someday my health __________ me feeding them anymore, I will have my sons replace me.”

__________ , the furry creatures will be able to rely on their __________ human father for many years to come.

10 . All eyes were on me as the other moms quieted down. Someone had just asked, “Are you going to _________ us?”

“Yeah, you should dance with us,“ another_________ .I was waiting for my daughter's dance class to finish while the other moms got_________ for their adult dance class.

"No," I said. I'd_________ these moms from the sidelines through the years. However, I didn't have a dancer's body.

But my husband said to me, "You’ll never know if you don^’t try." So I_________ for ballet. At my first class, I was the_________ woman in the room. What did the others think of me?

The instructor started us with basic, simple steps. _________ nobody made comments about my size and till the end of the class, I realized I had_________ the night. So I kept going each week.

The instructor moved on to more_________ steps. My muscles were painful, but I__________ it. The steps continued to be harder, but I__________ at home with my daughter. Later, I realized something __________ My legs weren^’t painful anymore.

I saw a(n) __________ in the way I carried myself too. I was stronger. My muscles weren't the only part of me that had been__________. " I don't care what others think when I'm dancing," I told my husband with my new__________. "Anyway, I've learned ballet!"