Last Friday, doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center successfully replaced 【小题1】 heart of a very sick man with a specially-grown pig’s heart. It is the first time that doctors 【小题2】 (do) this surgery by now. After three days, the patient appears to be doing very well. Dr. Bartley Griffith who is the first surgeon 【小题3】 ( perform ) the operation, said this had never been done before. David Bennett, 57, is the man offered the heart. He was given special 【小题4】 (permit) to have the unusual operation because without it, he would have died.

Transplants (移植) usually come from people who have died, but want 【小题5】 (they) organs to be used to help other people live. There are far 【小题6】 (large) numbers of patients who need organs than those of organs. Over 3,800 Americans got heart transplants last year. But there are 【小题7】 (rough) 110,000 people who are waiting for some kind of transplant. For years, scientists have tried to figure out 【小题8】 they transplant organs from other animals into humans. This is hard because the human body almost always rejects something that isn’t its own.

Muhammad is one of the 【小题9】 (doctor) who helped perform the surgery. He’s been working to develop methods to help prevent pig organs 【小题10】 being rejected in humans. Doctors are watching Mr. Bennett’s recovery.

Being a civilization with a long history, traditional Chinese medicine can date back nearly two thousand years. As many scholars pointed out, however, it wasn’t until the mid 20th century that China established its 【小题1】(organize) and concentrated network of medical and health care. China now stands at a crossroad. 【小题2】is acknowledged that China’s medical healthcare has seen great improvement. It has now become 【小题3】middle-income country with a rapid increase in GDP, while its high-quality medical insurance service can hardly cover the majority, especially in Tibet which is 【小题4】(remote) than most other areas in China.

Now every country is facing various challenges, yet I believe each will have its 【小题5】(solve). As a holder of Chinese Government Scholarship, majoring in Clinical Medicine in Peking University Health Science Center, I would like to talk about the challenges within the health system, 【小题6】is also a tough issue in the Philippines. Problems keep 【小题7】(range) from the lack of doctors to the increase of medical expense. Fortunately, policy-makers and government officials have started to act on them. China faces the same health challenges. In recent years, thanks 【小题8】the rapid growth of economy, the Chinese government 【小题9】(overcome) the challenges and solved the problems 【小题10】(gradual) through proper plans, and set an example for other countries.

Acupuncture ( 针 灸 ) is a traditional Chinese medical practice of treating 【小题1】 (vary) physical and mental conditions. It gained respect and interest in the United States after New York Times journalist James Reston visited China with President Nixon and needed an operation. Chinese doctors used acupuncture on Reston after surgery 【小题2】 (reduce) his pain, and his recovery was swift. Curious about this, Reston 【小题3】 (allow) to watch surgery on patients 【小题4】 received acupuncture for anesthesia ( 麻 醉 ). Patients talked with their doctors during the operation and then walked back to their rooms 【小题5】 their own.

The effectiveness of acupuncture left Reston such a deep impression that he wrote a front-page article in the New York Times about his operation 【小题6】 (immediate) after he returned to   the United   States. “A leading       medical specialist sent by Premier Chou En-lai 【小题7】 (remove) my appendix ( 阑 尾 ). I was conscious in 【小题8】 whole process.”

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) began to sponsor some of their top physicians to visit China to investigate acupuncture and its   possible 【小题9】 (function) in western medicine. With years 【小题10】 (go) by,   acupuncture has earned itself a great reputation across the world with magical effect.