A few months ago, I got a terrible cold which ended in a cough that was hard to get rid of. No matter how many different medicines I tried, I _________ couldn’t get rid of the cough. It made both my teaching and my life _________.

Then one day after class, a student came up to me and ___________ traditional Chinese medicine. From her description, it seemed that Chinese medicine had magic power and could work ___________. I was _________ because I knew so little about it and have never tried it before. _________ my cough got so much worse that I couldn’t sleep at night, so I decided to give it a _________. The Chinese doctor took my pulse (脉搏) and asked to see my _________, both of which were new experience to me because they are both nonexistent in Western medicine, where diagnosis (诊断) depends heavily on _____________. Then the doctor gave me a scraping treatment known as “Gua Sha” in Chinese. I was a little __________ at first because he used a tool to scrape the skin on my neck and shoulders.

A few minutes later, the treatment started to produce a __________ effect and my body and mind began to sink deeper into __________. I didn’t feel much improvement in my __________ in the first few days, but after a few more regular visits to the doctor, my cough started to __________. Then within a matter of weeks, it was completely __________!

When I was 10 years old, my friend Sydney suffered from a brain cancer. Sydney fought against it, but the cancer did not _______ to the treatment. Sydney died at the age of 11.

After her death, I felt sad and discouraged. I decided to turn these _______ emotions into positive actions. When I was 15 years old, I _______ the Pink Polka Dots Guild (PPD协会) with two friends. My goal is to raise enough money to find a _______ for brain cancer, which is the second most common cancer in children.

Over the _______, PPD has held fund-raisers across the city. The first Pink Polka Dots event, a garage sale, just _______ $900, but our latest fund-raiser, the 2012 golf tournament, _______ over $73,000. In the past five years, we have raised almost a million dollars.

I’ve been shocked by the _______ recognition that the guild has earned. PPD received a(n) _______ from President and spoke at a TED Conference. Each of these honors has raised awareness and money for our ________.

The effort we have made has ________ helped cancer research. PPD has provided funding for ________ discoveries, such as “Tumor Paint”, which illuminates (照亮) cancerous cells so that doctors can ________ them with unprecedented accuracy. The ________ appeared in Time magazine. I am very proud to have helped fund the research of this life-saving technology.

Pink Polka Dots has inspired me to be an activist. My experience has taught me that with passion and dedication, it is possible to make a ________ in the world.

Chinese experts, based on the result of clinical trials, have __________ that Chloroquine Phosphate(磷酸氯喹), an antimalarial drug, has a certain _________ effect on the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a Chinese official said here Monday.

The experts have "unanimously" suggested the drug be included in the next version of the treatment guidelines and __________ in wider clinical trials as soon as possible, Sun Yanrong, deputy head of the China National Center for Biotechnology Development under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), said at a press conference.

Chloroquine Phosphate, which has been used for more than 70 years, was selected from tens of thousands of existing drugs after _________ rounds of screening, Sun said. According to her, the drug has been under clinical trials in over 10 hospitals in Beijing, ___________ in south Guangdong Province and central China's Hunan Province, and has shown _______ good efficacy.

In the trials, the groups of patients who had taken the drug have shown better indicators than their parallel groups, in abatement(减轻) of fever, improvement of CT images of lungs, the percentage of patients who became _________ in viral nucleic acid tests and the time they need to do so, she said. Patients taking the drug also take a shorter time to recover, she added.

Sun gave an example of a 54-year-old patient in Beijing, who was _________ to hospital four days after showing symptoms. After taking the drug for a week, he saw all indicators   __________ and the nucleic acid turn negative.

_________, no obvious serious adverse reactions related to the drug have been found among the over 100 patients enrolled in the clinical trials, she said.

On February 15, several departments including the MOST, the National Health Commission and the National Medical Products Administration called a video conference to _________ drug research and clinical experts’ opinions on the drug’s efficacy on COVID-19.

The expert team, led by Zhong Nanshan, a __________ respiratory specialist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, agreed that Chloroquine Phosphate can be used to treat more COVID-19 patients, Sun said.

Previous in vitro (体外的) experiments showed that it can block virus _________ by changing the acidity and basicity value inside the cell and interfering receptors of SARS coronavirus. It also shows immune-modulating (调节) activity, which may __________ its antiviral effect in vivo (体内的) and is widely _________ in the whole body, including the lungs, after oral administration.