Dr. Lin Qiaozhi,     1     is known as the “mother of ten thousand babies”, is an amazing woman.

    2     (affect) by her mother’s death, she chose to study medicine instead of following the traditional path of marriage at age 18. Her brother complained about her choice, but she     3     (respond), “I’d rather stay single to study all my life!” After graduating from Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), she became the first woman ever     4     (hire) as a resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. Then within six months, she was named a chief resident physician,     5     position that usually took four years to achieve.     6     (unfortunate), the department was closed because of the war. Thinking of the people in need of help, she opened a private clinic. At times, she was even seen     7     (ride) a donkey to faraway villages to provide medical care. In 1954, she was elected to the first National People’s Congress and, over the next several     8    (decade), she held many important positions. But her heart was elsewhere. She was more interested in tending patients,     9     (publish) medical research on care for women and children, and training the next generation of doctors. She said: “As doctors, we should be responsible     10     the patients and treat them as our sisters.”

2 . As a nurse, Fawcett jumps around from the emergency room to the COVID-19 units upstairs. The unique ________ has allowed her to see all aspects of the disease — from patients on their death beds to those ________ enough to recover. But her fellow nurses in the emergency room have been so ________ and helpless, who don’t see any light at the end of this dark tunnel. “The patients are just ________,” the nurse said.

At a morning meeting, Fawcett decided to ________ what she witnessed with her fellow nurses. It really gives them a little ________ in their step. Fawcett has worked overtime since an old man was admitted. “This man came in, looking very________. His wife was accompanying him,” she recalled, “We cried together and ________ together. I did not think he was going to make it.” However, the turning point came a week later. He had been taken off the ventilator (呼吸机) and was ________. He was sitting in a chair, smiling at his wife! It was just ________.

The________ has become a motivation for the nurses who struggle to keep up their ________ during growing pandemic (流行病). They feel more ________ to everyone there because they’re all going through this war together. ________ the awesome death rate, they are firmly convinced that the pandemic will surely pass and everything will ________ be fine.