Susana Vazquez-Torres is a fourth-year graduate student at the University of Washington who wants to someday invent new drugs     1     neglected diseases.

Lately, she     2     (think) a lot about snake bites: Around a hundred thousand people die each year from snake bites, according to the World Health Organization—and yet, she says, “the current therapeutics are not safe and are very expensive.”

Part of the problem is     3     developing new drugs for things like snake bites has been a slow and laborious process. In the past, it might have taken years to come up with a promising compound.

Cholera used to be one of the most     1     (fear) diseases in the world, until a British doctor, John Snow, showed     2     it could be overcome. This illness causes severe diarrhoea, dehydration, and even death. In     3     early 19th century, when an outbreak of cholera hit Europe, millions of people died from the disease.

Tuyouyou was chosen as a researcher of a team of scientists     4     the purpose of discovering a new treatment for malaria.

Speaking of medicine, through new technology, people who have brain     1     other injuries will be able to find new hope. There     2     (be) recently, for example, technology which can help blind people to see using cameras and deaf people to hear using microphones that     3     (connect) to their brains. Future technology will assist people in overcoming all sorts of physical disabilities.

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) isn’t     1     (wide) supported by most westerners. However, this is starting to change. TCM will be included in the new version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD),     2     will be brought out by the WHO in the near future. This is the     3    (one) time for TCM to be included in the ICD, serving as the international standard for diseases and health conditions.

A group doctors,     1     had been specially trained in skiing skills in China over the last four years, provided medical treatment during the Winter Olympics. In the field, if there was an accident, the ski doctors had to be on the scene in four minutes     2     a 10-kilo medical bag and had to deal with the injuries and remove the     3     (injure) athlete from the track in just 15 minutes.

The economic achievements of the Tang Dynasty promoted the development of Chinese medicine. The Tang government     1     (take) the lead in completing the editing work of the world’s first herbal medicine book, Tang Bencao. The book     2     (contain) 850 kinds of drugs and a drug map, further     3     (improve) the scale of Chinese medicine.