When is healthy food the best medicine? When it is free.

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     1     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 pasta. The Fresh Food Pharmacy aims to change that. A pilot program created by the Geisinger Health System, a hospital network in Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, this pharmacy     2     a grocery store stocked with fresh produce, lean meats, canned beans, and more. Even better, it is all free. Under the program, patients with type 2 diabetes and qualifying income are     3     a week’ worth of food for their entire household, and dieticians show them how to transform it into healthy meals. After the first year, all 180 participants had improved in key health measurements, in particular their hemoglobin A1c levels (HbA1c), the gold standard for     4     blood sugar control.

In 2012, the estimated costs     5     with diabetes in the United States were $245 billion. Geisinger spent only about $1000 annually on each food-pharmacy patient. David Feinberg, Geisinger’s president and CEO,     6     that “a decrease in HbA1c of one point could save us about $8000.”   With many of the patients dropping three points, the program could save $24000 or more a year in health-care costs—as well as reduce the risk of amputation, blindness, and other complications.

Geisinger isn’t the only organization     7     with produce prescriptions. Nonprofits, food banks, hospitals, and even doctors’ offices around the country have     8     programs that bring the “food is medicine” concept to life. Boston Medical Center’s Preventive Food Pantry was the first such program in the country when it opened in 2001. Today it serves     9     7000 patients a month. In 2010, the nonprofit organization Wholesome Wave started the Fruit and Vegetable Rx program. Doctors give each family member $1 per day to spend at a     10     farmers’ market or grocery store. The program has helped more than 11000 low-income patients.

8 . Patient data: we need a better approach

Any fair-minded assessment of the dangers of the deal between Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) and Deep-Mind must start by acknowledging that both sides mean well. Deep-Mind is one of the leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies in the world. The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giants. It is against that background that the information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has issued her judgment against the Royal Free hospital under the NHS, which handed over to Deep-Mind the records of 1.6 million patients in 2015. This is on the basis of a vague agreement which took far too little account of the patient’s rights and their expectations of privacy.

Deep-Mind has almost apologized. The NHS has modified its ways. Further arrangements and there maybe many between the NHS and Deep-Mind will be carefully inspected to ensure that all necessary permissions have been asked of patients and all unnecessary data has been cleaned. There are lessons to learn about the informed patient agreement. But privacy is not the only angle in this case and not even the most important. Ms Denham chose to concentrate the blame on the NHS, since under existing law it “controlled” the data and Deep-Mind merely “processed” it. But this difference misses the point that it is processing and collection, not the more possession of bis, that gives the data value.

The great question is who should benefit from the analysis of all the data that our lives now generate. Privacy law builds on the concept of damage to an individual from identifiable knowledge about them. That misses the way the economy works. The data of an individual there gains its value only when it is compared with the data of countless millions more.

The use of privacy law to restrict the tech giants in this instance feels slightly improper. This practice does not address the real worry. It is not enough to say that the algorithms Deep-Mind develops will benefit patients and save lives. What matters is that they will belong to a private monopoly (垄断) which developed then using public resources. If software promises to save lives as drugs now can, big data may be expected to behave as a big medical company has done. We are still at the beginning of this revolution. A long struggle will be needed to avoid a future troublesome. Ms Denham’s report is a welcome start.

Amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia, almost everyone in China wears a face mask to protect themselves and other people     1     the virus. However, many people in the West feel reluctant to wear masks     2     there is an increasing number of their compatriots(同胞）being infected.

According to the Global Times, different attitudes toward     3     (wear) masks largely lie in the cultures. In the West,     4     people generally believe is that unless one is already ill, wearing a mask is simply unnecessary.

Siva Kumar from the US is one of them. “Masks can only protect you from particulate matter in the air you breathe, but they can't filter (过滤) out microbes (微生物), "Kumar told China Daily. “wearing a mask when you're healthy     5    (cause) tension for others."

US infection prevention specialist Eli Perencevich told Forbes, "The average healthy person     6     not wear masks." She added, “If they wear them incorrectly it can increase the risk of infection because they're touching their faces more often."

However, for people in Asian countries like China, wearing a mask is engrained (根深蒂固的) in their culture.     7     (Value) collectivism (集体主义), people in Asia always want to make contributions to the groups     8    they belong to. In such uncertain and potentially dangerous time, many people have taken the responsibility     9    (wear) face masks to ensure the safety of their communities.

Chen Xinjie, a media worker in Beijing said: "Wearing the mask for a long time is stuffy(闷热的) and uncomfortable…But as a member of the group, it's our duty to do so."

    10    (Influence) by social cultures, the attitudes toward wearing a mask can be different in the East and West. But as US essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves."

10 . Chinese experts, based on the result of clinical trials, have __________ that Chloroquine Phosphate(磷酸氯喹), an antimalarial drug, has a certain _________ effect on the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a Chinese official said here Monday.

The experts have "unanimously" suggested the drug be included in the next version of the treatment guidelines and __________ in wider clinical trials as soon as possible, Sun Yanrong, deputy head of the China National Center for Biotechnology Development under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), said at a press conference.

Chloroquine Phosphate, which has been used for more than 70 years, was selected from tens of thousands of existing drugs after _________ rounds of screening, Sun said. According to her, the drug has been under clinical trials in over 10 hospitals in Beijing, ___________ in south Guangdong Province and central China's Hunan Province, and has shown _______ good efficacy.

In the trials, the groups of patients who had taken the drug have shown better indicators than their parallel groups, in abatement(减轻) of fever, improvement of CT images of lungs, the percentage of patients who became _________ in viral nucleic acid tests and the time they need to do so, she said. Patients taking the drug also take a shorter time to recover, she added.

Sun gave an example of a 54-year-old patient in Beijing, who was _________ to hospital four days after showing symptoms. After taking the drug for a week, he saw all indicators   __________ and the nucleic acid turn negative.

_________, no obvious serious adverse reactions related to the drug have been found among the over 100 patients enrolled in the clinical trials, she said.

On February 15, several departments including the MOST, the National Health Commission and the National Medical Products Administration called a video conference to _________ drug research and clinical experts’ opinions on the drug’s efficacy on COVID-19.

The expert team, led by Zhong Nanshan, a __________ respiratory specialist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, agreed that Chloroquine Phosphate can be used to treat more COVID-19 patients, Sun said.

Previous in vitro (体外的) experiments showed that it can block virus _________ by changing the acidity and basicity value inside the cell and interfering receptors of SARS coronavirus. It also shows immune-modulating (调节) activity, which may __________ its antiviral effect in vivo (体内的) and is widely _________ in the whole body, including the lungs, after oral administration.