1 . Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of five with her family. While _______ her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a（n）_______ in medicine. At 18 she married and started a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a doctor. Her husband supported her decision.

_______, Canadian medical schools did not _______women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study medicine at the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to _______ her medical degree.

Upon graduation, Charlotte returned to Montreal and set up a private _______. Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a _______ doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte _______ herself operating on damaged limbs and setting _______ bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.

But Charlotte had been practising without a licence. She had ________ a doctor’s licence in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was ________. The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all-male board, wanted her to ________ her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to ________ her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887, she appealed to the Manitoba Legislature to ________ a licence to her but they too, refused. Charlotte continued to practise without a licence until 1912. She died four years later at the age of 73.

In 1993, 77 years after her ________, a medical licence was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pioneering woman.”

2 . It had just been an average working week at the hospital, really.I’m a critical care ____, and we were coming off the back of the winter pressure, so we were all very busy and feeling tired, but no more than ____.

It was Thursday 19 March, the week before lockdown(封闭), we knew that Covid was about to ____ and we were preparing for it.But there was quite a lot of ____ because we weren’t sure exactly what to expect.After working a 48 hour shift, I thought, “I’m back at work tomorrow so I’ll just go and get my ____ in”.But it wasn’t to be.You walk into your usual supermarket and automatically know where everything is, but that day it was quite ____ in some way.

I’d seen about the ____ buying of toilet rolls(卷纸)on social media and I remember thinking, “I’ve got quite a few toilet rolls, it will be fine”.____ , when I got to the supermarket, the fruit and vegetable aisles(通道)were just bare.

___ I was shocked.I was wandering around the shop—I couldn’t ____ what was happening and why there was no food available for me to buy.I came out, sat in my car and started to cry.I thought I should ____, on the media, how I’m feeling right now—anxious and exhausted, so people would know about what was happening here, which might ____ their worry.I shared it on Facebook.Unexpectedly, my post went ____. It had been viewed over 630, 000 times in the first week．

It’s hard to ____ whether there’ll be a second spike(激增)because we’re working with a virus.I’m managing to work extra shifts at the moment, because I think we can all ____ change and it can start from something small or as simple as walking down a street and smiling at somebody.And I’d like to make a difference on a bigger scale than I’m currently doing with my nursing.

3 . If you have talked to doctors in the hospitals, you may find that many of them are quite serious and speak in a range of_______that may be difficult to understand.. But ZhangWenhong, the leader of the Shanghai team of experts in the treatment of novel coronavirus pneumonia, is one of the_______.He caught the public’s attention for his recent frank and funny speech.

Zhang’s words first _______on the internet after he said in late January that he had_______ doctors and nurses who are members of the Communist Party of China (СPC) to frontline hospitals to treat coronavirus cases.

"When becoming CPC members, we vowed (发誓) that we would always_______people’s interests… in the face of dffiulties," Zhang said. " This is the moment we _______the pledge 誓言). All CPC members must rush to the front line. No bargaining "

Such a hardcore declaration of his attitude won widespread_________ among internet users. A person’s morals are _______ most in _______ situation. ________ could win more recognition from the people than the down-to-earth behavior of the CРC members," said YangHaiyan, a 32-year-old Shanghai resident.

One month later, when Zhang advised local residents to ________the risk of spreading the virus by staying at home, he said in Shanghai   ________: "If you don’t stop seeing friends, you will see them again in the ICU."

Though ________   by the media, Zhang described himself as a medical worker who must ________ now, but will return to keeping a low ________ after the outbreak ends.

"I spoke because of the fear among the public, owing to limited ________ of the contagion (传染病), said Zhang on Feb 26. However, once the curtain of this coronavirus incident________, it maybe________to find me. I’ll just hide myself in a corner, studying complicated patient cases and doing some reading, ________ .

A quote from Zhang :

It’s suffocating (窒息的) for everyone to stay at home, but the virus is also suffocating. We aren’t resting at home; we re fighters. Every person who stays at home is________ in the battle against the virus."