Recently, one new disease NCP (新型冠状病毒肺炎) broke {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in Wuhan. It has spread to other countries, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the United States and Japan. Local government is trying to do {#blank#}3{#/blank#} useful to stop the further development of this disease. In order {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (control) the spread of the disease, Huoshenshan Hospital was set up in Wuhan. It {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (build) in just ten days. It is used to treat patients infected with the NCP.

    More than 7,500 workers and around 1,000 trucks and large pieces of machinery have been working at the Huoshenshan Hospital site {#blank#}6{#/blank#} and night. Around 400 rooms in the hospital have already been finished so far. The project {#blank#}7{#/blank#} on January 25 and finished on February 2. And 1,400 doctors began to treat patients in Huoshenshan Hospital there are 1,000 beds for {#blank#}8{#/blank#} in Huoshenshan Hospital. China also built a {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (two) hospital in Wuhan for treating the patients, with1, 600 beds.

    Leishenshan Hospital was completed on February 5. The hospital reduced the stress resulting from the increasing number of patients. This played an important role in {#blank#}10{#/blank#} against the NCP.

    Here I want to tell you some information about water.

    Water covers most of our planet. People can find it in oceans, lakes and rivers, and under the ground. Water moves in the environment by evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. The warm Sun helps water change into vapour and rise up into the sky. It is evaporation. The vapour in the air forms clouds in the sky. It is condensation. When the clouds get heavy enough, the water falls back to the ground as rain or snow. This is precipitation.

    Ocean water has too much salt in it. Much of the water travels far over the land. When it travels over the land, the water picks up salt from the rocks and soil. About 97.5% of the Earth's water is salty water. It is expensive to take salt out of the water.

    All people need clean water. They need it for drinking, for cooking, and for bathing. Some people in a village in South America did not have clean water. Their water was full of oil and dirty things. People there got sick when they drank the water. Other people heard about the problem. They sent empty water tanks (储水池) to the village. Rainwater fell into the tanks. Now the people in that village have the clean water.

    English playwright Arthur Wing Pinero said, "Where there's tea, there's hope." Similarly, a Chinese saying goes that "Firewood, rice, cooking oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are the seven necessities to begin a day."

    Tea is, without doubt, welcomed all over the world. According to Statista, a German website for statistics (数据), global tea production reached about 5.8 million tons in 2018. It has become the most consumed beverage (饮品) in the world – after water, of course.

    According to the UN, tea is much more than just a hot drink. It's a big part of many cultures around the world. You probably know that people in China use top-grade tea to show respect when receiving important guests. Meanwhile, the British tradition of afternoon tea is an important part of that country's identity. Making Malaysia's pulled tea has become a sort of art form, where drinkers take pride in its entertainment aspects.

    Apart from its cultural significance (意义), tea is also a medicine, used from ancient times to modern day. "Tea is cold and lowers the fire," Chinese Ming Dynasty herbalist Li Shizhen once said. The health benefits of tea are still being discovered today: preventing heart disease, obesity and cancer have all been linked to drinking green tea, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information in the US.

    Hot or cold, bagged or loose-leaf, tea is more than a drink – it's a social custom and also a magic medicine, a link to the past and a way of life.

People love walking through a giant puzzle. In a corn maze(玉米迷宫), they can follow miles of paths and run into lots of dead ends before they finally find their way out. The corn maze has been growing for almost 30 years. 

Simple corn mazes began appearing in the 1980s. In 1993, the first big corn maze created for the public to enjoy was made in Annville Pennsylvania, by Don Frantz and Adrian Fischer. Then, in a corntield as big as two and a half football fields, Mr. Frantz created "The Amazing Maize Maze"with the help of his family and friends. When it was done, almost two miles of pathways snaked through the cornfield. Since then, thousands of corn mazes have been created around the world.

For many farmers, a corn maze means a boost(激增) of extra income. During the opening weekend, about 6, 000 visitors came to get lost in Mr. Frantz's maze. Charging only $5 per person, he earned almost $32, 000in two weeks.

Brett Herbst is also a maze designer. In 1999 he set a world record for the world's largest corn maze, an image of the solar system with nine planets in it. He now has a business called The Maize, which has designed more than 4, 000 mazes around the world. "Corn mazes help people connectwith their roots, "he says. "People are so far removed from farm life that they are drawn to something real, something organic. "

Today, a great number of people enjoy seeking fun in a corn maze. Mr. Herbst says, "When we see families on the farm having fun, we know that they are making memories that will last a lifetime. "

青春期是人生发展的重要阶段，成为更好的自己是每一位青少年的孜孜追求。学校英文报刊发起"成为更好的自己"的征文活动，主题涉及"与人相处"、"生活方式"、"学习习惯"、"兴趣爱好"、"独立自主"等方面。请你结合自身经历，谈谈如何成为更好的自己。内容包括：(1)从上述几个方面任选2项，谈谈自己的经历和计划；(2)呼吁大家珍惜当下，把握青春，做更好的自己；

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At the stage of puberty, I am going to make myself better.