Patient: Good morning, doctor.

Doctor: Morning. What seems to be the trouble?

Patent: It's my vision. I can't see well at night, and when I wake up in the morning, it takes me a few minutes {#blank#}1{#/blank#} I can see clearly.

Doctor: OK. I'm going to take a closer look. Just relax. How {#blank#}2{#/blank#} has this been going on?

Patient: A couple of weeks, I guess -- wow, that's bright!

Doctor: {#blank#}3{#/blank#} it hurt when I do that?

Patient: Not exactly. It's just really bright.

Doctor: OK. Please, go on.

Patient: Well, I {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (walk) down to the basement in my house about three weeks ago when I slipped and bumped my head pretty hard on the steps.

Doctor: Where exactly did you hit your head?

Patient: Right on the back. I heard a loud sound, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} everything seemed to be okay.

Doctor: You didn't get it {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (check) out then?

Patient: No, I didn't. Well, a week passed, and all of a sudden I started to have problems {#blank#}7{#/blank#} my sight. I first noticed it when I was driving back home from work. It's gotten {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (bad) over the past week.

Doctor: I'm glad you came. I'm going to order some tests, and I want to make {#blank#}9{#/blank#} appointment for you to see a specialist tomorrow morning. {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (hope), nothing is too serious.

    You might want to think twice before purchasing{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(conventional) grown strawberries or spinach(菠菜). According to a new report from the Environmental Working Group(EWG), these foods are the most likely{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(pollute) with the pesticide.

    Even low levels of pesticide exposure can be harmful to infants, babies and young children,{#blank#}3{#/blank#}parents and caregivers should take measures to lower children's exposures{#blank#}4{#/blank#}pesticides while still{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(feed) them diets rich in healthy fruits and vegetables.

    Just last year, the red berry knocked apples and{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(hold) the title of the most polluted. The pesticide increased in strawberries because of out-of-season demand. The most polluted strawberry had traces of 20{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(vary) pesticides.

    Also moving up on{#blank#}8{#/blank#}list this year is spinach. Spinach jumps from the{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(eight) to the second most polluted product. The study finds spinach samples contain more pesticides by weight than all other produce{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(test). In high doses, it can cause damage to the nervous system.

A Bite of China

    No trip would be complete without experiencing the local food culture. Actually, China has various kinds of delicious food,{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (include) a wide variety of local snacks (小吃).

    Without a doubt, for the majority of the foreigners I contacted, and myself included, Peking Duck, Dim Sum, Mongolian Hot Pot were the favorite Chinese {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (dish). China is a place{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the food is not only delicious, but the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (cheap) I've ever found.

{#blank#}5{#/blank#}my last night in Beijing before returning to the States, I went to a Peking Duck restaurant that had been suggested for me to try. What a beautiful place! Splendid woodblock prints on the walls, fresh flowers in the vases on the table,{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (attract) silverware (镀银餐具) and beautiful chopsticks. I was handed {#blank#}7{#/blank#} menu and found most of the prices{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(be) especially low for the high quality of the food. The duck came in whole or half, along with all the little decorations that you know if you've ever eaten Peking duck—a little tortilla (玉米饼) to put the sliced duck and vegetables in chopped onion, sauce.

    Anyway, I ended up ordering a whole duck and thought I'd just take the rest back to my hotel{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(eat) later if I couldn't finish it. Unbelievably, in the end there was none of the whole duck{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(leave) on the plate. Umm, yummy!

    Over the past few years, square dance {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (become) a more and more popular exercise, especially among senior citizens. They often dance in the open areas in community. However, many {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (resident) who live around are annoyed by the loud music. For example, students {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (prepare) for important exams are {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (deep) affected.

    People may have different opinions on this issue. Some people think {#blank#}5{#/blank#} is necessary for senior citizens to give up the hobby for the good of most people, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} others argue that senior citizens have the right {#blank#}7{#/blank#}（do）something they like in public places. They are both right to some extent. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} my opinion, the authorities, instead of forcing senior citizens to stop dancing, should do something to meet everybody's requirements. For example, they can supply some buses which can transport senior citizens to a place {#blank#}9{#/blank#}there are few apartments around. Besides, local communities can also organize leisure activities that little noise {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (create).

    In short, there are always some good ideas that can meet the needs of people. After all, everybody has the right to live a happy and fulfilled life.

Photographers Turn Their Cameras on Pets

In 2019 photographers Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks visited 14 countries on assignment. When the couple described the adventures {#blank#}1{#/blank#}they had experienced when photographing, people invariably asked, "But who takes care of your four cats and dogs?" They joked that the pet siter made a lot of money.

But 2020 couldn't have been {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(different). Due to COVID-19, Brinson and Banks never left the United States. Often, they didn't even leave their Los Angeles neighborhood. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} {#blank#}4{#/blank#}spending long hours in airport security lines and waiting-for the perfect lighting, the pair stayed along with dogs Tux and Tia and cats Rex and Kudzu. "Our pets became emotional therapy animals, and our only friends we could safely hug in a world {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(strike) by a deadly pandemic," Banks said.

As COVID-19 lockdowns swept across the world in March of 2020, the change made an especially great impact on photographers, who are accustomed to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(spend) long periods abroad. And so many cameras {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(turn) on a domestic subject: the pet.

Research suggests that pets have offered emotional support during the pandemic, helping {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(make) the long days of isolation more bearable, says Emily MeCobb, a clinical associate professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. In fact, the pandemic has sped up a trend, according to McCobb's and other scientists' observation, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the pet is becoming a member of the family. "In the past 20 to 30 years, the role of the pet in the family {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(take) on a whole new role," says MeCobb." It really hasn't been that long {#blank#}11{#/blank#}these furry child substitutes gained this kind of importance in American society."