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 . Alifa Chin is a 13-year-old Bangladeshi girl whose last name sometimes leads to her being mistaken for a Chinese.

“I like my name very much. I think my name is the _________ of friendship between Bangladesh and China,” she said. In 2010, Chin’s mother, Jannatul Ferdous, was unable to _________ naturally due to a serious heart problem. Local doctors failed to _________ the necessary surgery (外科手术).

_________, the Chinese navy’s Peace Ark hospital ship was about to arrive to provide medical _________ for locals in Chittagong. “Now we feel _________ for the efforts of Chinese doctors and nurses that help me give birth to a healthy baby,” Ferdous said.

This year, Chin wrote a letter to President Xi Jinping to _________ her gratitude. To the family’s _________, Xi wrote back. In the letter, Xi _________ her to study hard, pursue her dream and carry forward the __________ friendship between China and Bangladesh.

“To __________ President Xi’s expectations, I will study medical science to help those in need,” she said.

The girl’s father said, “We didn’t __________ that our daughter would receive the letter from the Chinese president. This is the most __________ thing in our life.”

“We have seen how people in other countries have gained a better understanding of China through the medical __________. To local residents, China is a major country that is responsible, peace-loving and always __________,” she said.

3 . Recently, my mother experienced a surgery. It was conducted to ________ a valve (心脏瓣膜) in her heart, which couldn’t function well. During the first couple of days, my dad was telling me on the phone how wonderful the nurses were in the ICU and how they ________ my mom. They did everything needed to make sure she was ________ at all times.

I told him it would be great if we could think of a(n) ________ way to show our thanks. In the whole process of ________ a major surgery, the nurses are often the people who get ________ the most and aren’t thanked enough for the care they give to each patient. My dad had a(n) ________ that we could bring along some chocolates for them. But I said it was too common.

When finally I arrived at the hospital, I had the ________ to meet these kind people, who my dad had told me had spent almost 36 hours caring for my mom ________ over the past 3 days! I came up with a good idea and I think they really ________ it.

When my mom recovered well and was ________ to leave the hospital, we handed them the silk banner (锦旗) I had been making for 2 days. They were all shocked and thanked us. But I said it was we that should ________ the wonderful care they provided to my mom.

Nurses really are the true ________ of the process of recovery. It was so nice that this ________ presented us with a unique chance to thank them directly for their ________ to others.

4 . Health Care Workers Getting Panic Buttons

Hundreds of health care workers at Cox Medical Center in Missouri will soon be equipped with personal panic buttons, following over a year of increased violence against staff members. The pandemic (流行病), the medical center said, has greatly ________the rise of the number of attacks and the very device comes at the right time to the rescue.

A medical worker, once experiencing an attack, can press the button attached to his working ID card to activate a personal ________system and warn the security department—an instant pop-up ________will appear on hospital computers, showing the worker’s exact location.

The panic buttons are being ________among scores of staff members working in “high-risk areas” of Cox Medical Center. The hospital promises, if there are positive results, to ________the program to hundreds of employees. And the system is expected to be ________at the end of the year.

Those buttons are ________backed by the Skaggs Foundation, a charity in Missouri, which has offered the hospital a big grant. “This project helps maintain our No.1 resource—our health care workers, the number of whom has ________so much,” Nita Jane Ayres, Chairman of the foundation, said.

Alan Butler, Cox Health’s system director, agreed the buttons were a(n) ________tool in the battle to keep the staff safe. The entire number of attacks on staff by patients has risen from 40 in 2019 to 123 in 2020, and total injuries rocketed from 17 to 78.

________ , even those numbers scarcely paint the full picture. Angie Smith, the medical center’s patient safety facilitator, said that many workplace violence events went ________because “staff don’t feel like they will be supported or don’t feel like they will be able to do anything about it.” “The ________parts of being in health care now are not only being able to give excellent care to your patients”, she said, “but also feeling ________yourself as their caregiver.”

________, workplace violence in medical centers deserved our attention even before the pandemic. A survey of thousands of emergency physicians found that nearly half of the participants had undergone attacks while working, and roughly ninety-seven percent of those were ________by patients.

5 . Most people would be _______ by the high quality of medicine available to most Americans. There is a lot of specialization, a great deal of _________ to the individual, a vast amount of _________ technical equipment, and intense effort not to make mistakes because of the financial risk which doctors and hospitals must face in the courts if they _________ things badly.

But the Americans are in a mess. The problem is the way in which health care is organized and financed. _________ public belief, it is not just a free competition system. The private system has been joined by a large public system, because _________ care was simply not _________ the less fortunate and the elderly.

But even with this _________ public part of the system, which this year will eat up 84.5 billion dollars-more than 10 per cent of the US Budget-large numbers of Americans are left _________. These include about half the 11 million unemployed and those who __________ to meet the strict limits on income fixed by a government.

The basic problem, __________, is that there is no central control __________ the health system. There is no __________ to what doctors and hospitals charge for their services, other than what the public is able to pay. The number of doctors has shot up and prices have climbed. When faced with toothache, a sick child, or a heart attack, all the unfortunate people concerned can do is to pay up.

Two thirds of the population are __________ by medical insurance. Doctors charge as much as they want, knowing that the insurance company will __________ the bill.

The rising cost of medicine in the USA is among the most worrying problems facing the country. In 1981 the country’s health bill climbed 15.9 per cent-about twice as fast as prices in general.

6 . A 60-pound bird has been given a second life. His caretakers came up with a (n) _________ solution for putting him on the road to_________. Bill, the turkey, is just one of the many “_________” at the Odd Man Inn Animal Rescue in Washington, home to a number of_________, like goats and chickens.

After Bill was_________ to the nonprofit reserve from a farm, an infected_________ on his right leg left him unable to_________. Although his caretakers managed to get his_________ taken care of by a vet, they quickly realized how_________ it was to turn the turkey over to change his bandages.

Not only that, the vet said the turkey would need to lose__________ if wanted to walk on his right leg again. Rather than__________ their feathered friend, the caretakers adjusted a Walkin’ Wheels wheelchair to help Bill.

The caretakers fitted the wheelchair with a sling (悬带) to__________ Bill’s weight while he got his daily exercise. This has also allowed his caretakers to change his bandages without breaking a__________.

Since Bill began using the wheelchair for his daily__________ therapy (治疗) sessions last week, he has slowly but steadily regained his ability to walk__________, making his caretakers thrilled.