3 . Five years ago, I took a career risk by leaving my job to work on a ship. My medical friends did their best to persuade me, saying that running away to sea would _________ my career. But after these years working as a junior doctor, I was willing to take the risk.

Desperate for adventure, I boarded a ship in Singapore with 2,000 passengers and crew. To my _________, the hospital was well equipped, with an X-ray machine and a blood analyser. That first voyage was a learning experience, a _________ schedule full of safety drills. There was so much new information to _________. Even remembering which uniform to wear each day was a challenge. Most confusingly, I often forgot to _________ my clock when the ship crossed time zones.

As a doctor, I was responsible for the 600 crew, and I was on call for the entire ship. Far from _________ seasickness and sunburn, I had to deal with other _________, for my patients were wide and varied. The ship’s medical centre was _________ a floating emergency room, and we didn’t have a team of specialists on hand for a second _________. With long and unpredictable hours, it required mental toughness.

As you can guess, many of the passengers were elderly. Heart attacks didn’t __________ geography and emergency evacuations (疏散) were difficult to __________. I recall one such patient, who was taken off the ship halfway through the Panama Canal. After a terrifying ride in an old ambulance, I was relieved that the patient __________ long enough to arrive at the hospital in Panama City.

Thankfully, there were several unexpected __________ to the job. I regularly enjoyed the passenger facilities and I even hosted my own table of passengers in the evening. On rare days off, I __________ as a tour guide on trips ashore. I got to fly over Alaska in a seaplane and watched a ballet in St Petersburg.

Now, I understand being a ship doctor is not a job — it’s a way of __________. One year at sea became two. I lost my career ambitions, but I redefined happiness in my life.

5 . I was appointed to tend to this patient several weeks ago and began to grow closer to her. Communicating with her was _________ because everything she wanted to say to me had to be written on a notepad. As a nursing graduate, I was able to read her mind by observing even a slight _________ in a patient’s facial expression.

One day, when I was checking the patient, she _________ me on the shoulder to show me a note, “Do you think I could leave the hospital in a month to see my niece get married?” Taking her hand in mine, I told her that I could not ___________ her, because I did not want to leave her a false sense of hope. ___________, I made her believe that I would be there with her every step of the way on her journey toward _________. Hearing that, the patient gave me a _________ and a hug.

Day by day, I built her _________ by walking around the floor with her. As I did this, I could see before my own eyes that her health was _________ improving and that she was able to walk more steadily. On her last day in hospital, just before her niece’s ____________, she wrote me one last note, “I couldn’t have done this ____________ you; I love you.” After kissing goodbye, I had a strong sense of achievement. I realized that moments like this were ____________ I woke up early for work in the hospital and spent long hours with her. I truly felt, as her ____________ confirmed, that I was an ____________ part of this woman’s recovery. My experience with this patient shows me that this career allows me to touch the lives of people in ways that people in other ____________ will never get to experience.

6 . On a Monday morning, Kaleb, who was an assistant in a Vietnam hospital, noticed me outside the Covid-19 wad(病房). I was then _______trying to find out about my elder brother’s _______.But it was a terrible day for doctors-some patients had died, and new _______were being wheeled in throughout.

After spotting me, Kaleb _______to me and asked if he could help. I told him it had been three days since my brother was put on a ventilator(呼吸机), and no one came to update us. Kaleb_______help and told me that there had been no turn for the_______in the last 10 hours.

After that, I was_______because it was just what I needed to hear while I waited for an hour outside the ward, anxious and _______, I told Kaleb how depressed I had felt until his _______cut through my pane.

In the following days, I oten________Kaleb and his colleagues to acquire messages about my elder brother, bringing support and ________. His hopeful words gave me some relief. In the most difficult times in my life, such kind, calming words________a lot to me.

When my elder brother was discharged after nearly a month, I sent a message, expressing my gratitude to him for his________help and endless efforts. And I was so impressed by his ________under such a hard situation, He is a ________in this fight like doctors and nurses.

8 . I believe I have a personal duty to make a positive impact on society. I’ve tried to _________ this goal by choosing a career in public service. As a physician _________ the challenge of infectious diseases, I consider my job a gift, which allows me to help ease the suffering of humankind. I have three principles to _________ my life, which I always think about.

Firstly, I have a strong thirst for _________. I think I will never know as much as I _________. This is what keeps the _________ of knowledge hot. And it is why I would do my job every day even if I cannot get high income.

Secondly, I believe in fighting for _________. I sweat over all the stuff, without feeling _________ for it. One of the byproducts of being a perfectionist is anxiety. But this anxiety creates a _________ tension that drives me to fulfill my limited potential.

Thirdly, I believe that my goal to be a physician is to __________ humankind. I have spent my __________ on public service. Most of it involved research, the care of __________ and the public health policy on AIDS.

I think, to control this terrible disease __________, I must be guided by these principles: continually thirsting for knowledge, accepting nothing __________ of excellence and knowing that the __________ of society is more important than my gains.

9 . 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.