Chinese researchers     1    (develop) a robot designed to help doctors treat the new coronavirus (冠状病毒) and other highly contagious diseases so far. The machine has along robotic arm attached to a base with wheels. It can perform some of the same medical examination tasks     2    doctors. For example, the device can perform ultrasound, collect fluid samples from a person’s mouth and listen to sounds made by a patient’s organs.

Cameras record the robot’s activities, which     3    (control) remotely so doctors can avoid     4    (come) in close contact with infected patents. Doctors and other medical workers can operate the machine from a nearby room or much     5    (far) away.

The robot’s main     6    (design) is Zheng Gangtie, an engineer and professor at China’s Tsinghua University in Beijing. He told Reuters New’s Agency that he got     7    idea for the device around the tie of the Lunar New Year in January. At the time, the number of cases of the COVID-19 was rising quickly in the city of Wuhan. COVID-19 is the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

Zheng said a friend of his, the head of Beijing Tsinghua Chang gung Hospital told him that one of the biggest     8    (problem) in dealing with COVID-19 was     9    healthcare workers treating patients were getting infected themselves. Zheng said he wanted to do something to deal with this situation.

So the engineer gathered a team and went to work on the robotic device. Zheng said the team was able to convert two robotic arms. The new robot is almost     10    (complete) automated. It can even disinfect itself after performing actions involving contact with patients.

Lin Qiaozhi’s principle of putting others first carried her     1     a life of hard choices.

When young, deeply hit by her mother’s death, Lin Qiaozhi chose to study medicine regardless of the tradition of early     2     (marry)and her brother’s complaint about high fees. After graduation, she immediately became the first woman     3     (hire)as a resident physician and later was sent abroad to further her studies. When offered a chance to stay in the US, she rejected     4     and returned to serve the women and children at home.     5     (fortunately), the outbreak of the war forced her to leave the position of a medical department.     6     (drive)by great compassion(同情), she soon opened a private clinic,     7     she treated the poor patients at a low charge.

After the foundation of People’s Republic of China, she held many important     8     (position)for decades,     9    her heart was still on medical cause, tending patients, publishing medical research and training new staff.

Lin Qiaozhi, having delivered over 5,000 babies,     10     (honor)as “mother of ten thousand babies” although she stayed single all her life. She well deserved the title “China’s Nightingale”.

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

4 . Irish, Japanese, Chinese scientists share the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. William Campbell, Staoshi Omura and Tu Youyou jointly won the prize    1    their work against diseases, the award-giving body said on Monday.

Campbell    2    (bear) in Ireland and Japanese Omura won half of the prize for discovering a new drug,     3    has helped the battle against river blindness, as well as showing     4    (power) effect against other diseases.

The Chinese scientist Tu Youyou also discovered artemisinin (青蒿素), a drug that has     5    (sharp) reduced the death rate for patients     6    (suffer) from malaria (疟疾). She is also the first Chinese citizen     7    (win) the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize winning is     8    honor for China’s science cause and traditional Chinese medicine.

“These two     9    (discover) provide humankind with a new way to fight these diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people annually. The award for Tu Youyou is the result of major change in the way China performs scientific research. China     10    (spend) a lot of money on such research over the past years,” a member of the Nobel committee said.