President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order on Tuesday to award four people national medals and honorary titles for their outstanding contributions    1     fighting the COVID-19 pandemic（ 瘟疫，流行病）.

Zhong Nanshan,     2    excellent disease expert, was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the highest national honor, for his outstanding work in fighting COVID-19 in China. Three others were also awarded the “People’s Hero” national honorary title. They are Zhang Boli, a    3     (tradition) Chinese medicine expert; Zhang Dingyu, head of Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital; and Chen Wei, a medical scientist     4     made breakthroughs in COVID-19-related basic research.

Zhong also has long been devoted to the research, prevention     5     treatment of major infectious and chronic respiratory disease（慢性呼吸病）, and has a long record of    6    (achieve). He was a major figure in the fight against the severe acute respiratory syndrome(综合症状)outbreak in 2003 in China.

    7    (follow) the   COVID-19   outbreak,   the   Chinese   government   encouraged   the   country    8     (contain) the disease in Wuhan, Hubei Province, after the city was locked down in late January. More than 42,000 medical workers from across the country    9     (send) to Hubei to fight   the disease. The pandemic has been    10    (effective) placed under control on the Chinese mainland since early March.

Acupuncture ( 针 灸 ) is a traditional Chinese medical practice of treating     1     (vary) physical and mental conditions. It gained respect and interest in the United States after New York Times journalist James Reston visited China with President Nixon and needed an operation. Chinese doctors used acupuncture on Reston after surgery     2     (reduce) his pain, and his recovery was swift. Curious about this, Reston     3     (allow) to watch surgery on patients     4     received acupuncture for anesthesia ( 麻 醉 ). Patients talked with their doctors during the operation and then walked back to their rooms     5     their own.

The effectiveness of acupuncture left Reston such a deep impression that he wrote a front-page article in the New York Times about his operation     6     (immediate) after he returned to   the United   States. “A leading       medical specialist sent by Premier Chou En-lai     7     (remove) my appendix ( 阑 尾 ). I was conscious in     8     whole process.”

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) began to sponsor some of their top physicians to visit China to investigate acupuncture and its   possible     9     (function) in western medicine. With years     10     (go) by,   acupuncture has earned itself a great reputation across the world with magical effect.

When people     1    (face) with health or nutrition questions, it is     2    (increase) common to go online and diagnose themselves. But the Internet is full of conflicting health warnings with no regulation to get rid of the wrong advice, some of which    3     (be) extremely dangerous! Also, search engines rank results by     4    (popular) rather than accuracy, so solid facts can be quite tricky to find. It is worth     5    (check) if the writer of an online piece is properly qualified as an expert. Anyone can call    6     (he) a “diet expert”, “nutritionist” and even a “doctor” — given it could refer to qualifications like a PhD. But remember, only officially    7     (recognize) doctors as well as dietitians have degrees    8     giving practical medical     suggestions. So if you are unsure and still wondering     9     the chocolate diet really does work or not, then it pays to make     10       appointment with your dietician or doctor. The truth is out there, and you just need to look in the right place!