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People in the US thought Ebola was only a disease, accompanied with fever and found in Africa at the beginning. 1 then a man from west Africa died from Ebola at a hospital in Dallas, Texas. And two nurses 2 for him became infected(感染) with the virus, which made the US government publish new guidelines to3 health workers．
Top American 4 have repeatedly said that most people have little chance of being infected．Experts have 5that Ebola can only be spread through infected person's body fluids — like blood．But it 6 many Americans are 7 what they have heard．
A recent survey found more than 80 percent of Americans believe that Ebola can be spread in many 8, including air forced through the nose or mouth. The Harvard School of Public Health 9 the findings. The study also showed that most adults fear there will be a(n) 10 of Ebola in the United States soon.
11 survey found that more than 70 percent of Americans would support calls to 12 travel to and from Ebola-affected parts of Africa.
Thomas Frieden heads the U.S．Centers for Disease Control and Prevention．When asked whether 13 officials had considered a travel ban, Mr．Frieden had 14 to say：“We won't be able to check travelers for 15 when they leave or when they arrive. We won't be able, as we do 16, to take a detailed history to see if they were17 when they arrive. When they 18 , we wouldn't be able to impose quarantine（强加隔离）as we now can if they have high-risk touch.”
Last week, President Barack Obama urged Americans not to 19 what he called “ panic or fear ”.
This week，the administration announced that all travelers reaching the United States from some African nations are 20 to pass through one of five airports.
Amazon.com Inc. is checking out of China's fiercely competitive domestic e-commerce market. The company told sellers on Thursday that it would no longer 1 its third-party online marketplace or provide seller services on its Chinese website, Amazon.cn. 2, domestic companies will no longer be able to sell products to Chinese consumers on its e-commerce platform.
The decision marks an end to a long 3 by America's e-commerce giants in the Chinese market. The firms entered the Chinese market with great attention in the early 2000s, only to 4 in the face of competition from China's faster-moving Internet giants.
Amazon has been in talks to 5 its e-commerce business for goods imported into China with a Chinese competitor, NetEase Inc.'s Kaola, in a stock-for-stock transaction(交易), according to a person familiar with the matter. That would remove the Amazon name from 6 e-commerce in China. Neither company would confirm the progress or details of those7, nor would they say if they are continuing.
In a written statement, Amazon said it remained 8 to China through its global stores, Kindle businesses and web services. Amazon China's president would leave to take on another role within the company, the company said. The China consumer-business team will report 9 to the company's global team.
When Amazon first entered China in 2004 with the 10 of Joyo.com, it was the largest online seller for books, music and video there. Most Chinese consumers were using cash-on-delivery as their form of 11. Today, Amazon China chiefly caters to customers looking for imported international goods such as cosmetics and milk powder and is a (n) 12 player in the booming Chinese e-commerce market.
Amazon China commanded just 6% of gross market volume in the niche (细分的) cross-border e-commerce market in the fourth quarter of 2018, versus NetEase Kaola's 25% 13 and the 32% held by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s Tmall International
Chinese consumers are becoming more fascinated with 14 brands. In 2011, 85% of Chinese consumers said they would always buy a foreign brand over a domestic one. By 2016, 60% of respondents said they preferred domestic over foreign brands. Shaun Rein, China Market research's founder, said American e-commerce giants 15 obstacles in China because they didn't offered the products or user experience that consumers were looking for.
On Thursday morning, two teenage boys were saved by a drone (无人机) in Australia while lifeguards were still training to use the machine.
The 1 , aged 15-17, got into difficulties about 700 feet off the coast of Lennox Head, New South Wales (NSW). A passer-by saw them 2 in dangerous waves. Lifesavers 3 sent the drone to drop a lifeboat, and the pair made their way safely to the 4.
The drone, known as "Little Ripper", was actually not 5 to be saving anyone just yet—lifeguards were being trained to 6 the machine. When a call came through about the swimmers 7, the drone happened to be nearby.
Jai Sheridan was the lifeguard who 8 the drone. He described the experience as 9 . "The Little Ripper 10 proved itself today. It is a highly efficient (高效的) piece of lifesaving equipment. I was 11 the drone when the alarm was raised. I directed it towards the swimmers, and dropped the 12 . With its support they made their way to safety. They were 13 , but not hurt. The teens were saved in just 70 seconds with the drone—while a lifeguard would have taken up to six minutes to 14 the rescue."
John Barilaro, an official of the state, 15 the rescue as historic. "It was the world's 16 rescue by the unmanned airplane," he said. "Never before has a drone been used to 17 swimmers like this."
Last December, the NSW state government 18 some "Little Ripper" drones for 247, 000 pounds. 19 some are designed to spot sharks, others are 20 with lifeboats, alarms and loudspeakers. "It was money well spent," said John Barilaro.
Chinese netizens, who had to 1indoors for days to combat the ongoing 2 of the novel coronavirus related pneumonia, began to 3their wish lists of things they would do immediately after the pandemic4.
Among the 24,000 participants from all over the country, nearly half said they would love to meet their loved ones, and 5 10,000 said they would go out shopping or go to a movie theater and eat hotpot, according to a popular online surveys under the topic "what you want to do most after the pandemic"6 on Chinese Twitter-like platform Sina Weibo on Sunday.
"I really need to hit the gym. I have spent days at home doing 7but eating and watching TV shows on the couch between sleeps," some vowed online.
8also showed that many wanted simply to resume their old9.
"I would love to go back to my university to work on my dissertation, to make sure I can 10on time," wrote one. "I want to work and make money, so I can buy myself a house," wrote another.
The pandemic outbreak had 11more than 3340 lives until last Sunday morning. Under similar discussion12 , many netizens made more profound reflections on life and13 in the aftermath of the outbreak. "If we can14 the disaster, let's remember not to devour wild15. And if medical workers can save us from the disease, let's learn to respect their lives and to treat them with16 ," one netizen wrote. "Even after the disease, we should develop habits of washing hands properly and 17, and of wearing masks in crowded 18places," another 19.
Some also said they would love to reschedule their family gathering for the Chinese New Year, as many who were fighting 20the epidemic in frontline areas had been unable to make it this year.
It is reported that Americans would discard (丢弃) over 130 million cellphones a year for the next three years. Cellphones are filled with 1materials such as lead, zinc (锌)and arsenic (砷). The discarded2will do great harm to the environment. There are, however, recycling programs for cellphones. 3, most people don't know these programs.
The4to these problems is not heavy regulations, but education. Currently, students rarely learn about environmental problems. If people understood the dangers of plastic bags, they would 5 reusable ones. If people knew what was in their fertilizer, there would be a change in their 6.
Over the past years, American children have responded to education: After realizing the bad effects of smoking, the first place people 7was the school. As a result, the percentage of teenagers smoking dropped8. Education did work! Why not use it to solve environmental problems?
Also, with more education about the environment, more students could go into9professions. With more bright people researching the clean energy, we could 10from coal and gasoline to hydrogen or solar power more quickly.
Of course, this education does not have to be11to schools. Any12can have exhibits on what you can do for the environment. Television PSAs (公益广告) can 13about not just general issues but14things people can do to protect environment.
With more children learning about their15and entering into relevant professions, our environment will be saved.
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四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 TIME Magazine on Sept. 15th released its complete 1 of the 100 most influential people of 2021. The 18th annual list was 2 from six groups of workers, namely, icons (时代偶像), pioneers, titans (业界泰斗), artists, leaders, and innovators (创新者).
Viya, one of China's top e-commerce livestreamers (电商直播) based in Hangzhou, is on the list as 
an ) 3 along with Elon Musk and another dozen innovators.
Daily Mail thinks highly of Viya as "China's star saleswoman" who 4 a 
billion world of live online shopping. 5 Bloomberg's Allen Wan regards her as unimportant, saying she is just "a cross between Martha Stewart and Kim Kardashian", TIME has 6 Viya as one of the 2021 Most Influential 100 persons for being 7 in both business and charities.
The Australian model Miranda Kerr, the founder of KORA Organics, writes a(an) 8 about Viya for TIME. She 9 Viya as "the widely beloved businesswoman and influencer who is helping to 10 the future of e-commerce in China". Her live broadcasts of products, ranging from noodles to electric cars, 11 more money to actual companies. Kerr's admiration for Viya goes 12 business. Viya is a mother and charity supporter, 13 balancing all of these various roles in her life. She takes 14 of her abilities and influence to help more people by donating over $300,000 to flooded areas this summer. 15, she makes contributions to the construction of 18 primary schools in China's rural areas, the first of 16 opened last year. Viya once said "the greatest commercial value is to create value for 17. " "I am deeply inspired by both Viya's 18 and her down-to-the-earth spirit. " Kerr said.
As the publicity ambassador (宣传大使) of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, Viya makes greater efforts to make the city and the Games 19 known to the world. On Sept 12th, a celebration was held in her livestream room to mark the one-year countdown to the Games and share the latest 20 on the city's preparations for the Games.
Elsa Desmond knows she is not going to win a medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics. But she is 1 as the first women's luge (无舵雪橇）Olympian from Ireland. She was the 26th to 2 the line in the first run of the women's race on Monday night, 3 than none of the other athletes. That did not 4to her. She celebrated with a large smile on her face.
Although she will not win in Beijing, she has already won some 5. She had been given many reasons why she could not compete: she is too short, she did not start 6at a young age, and she could not balance a(n) 7 job with competing in a sport. The biggest difficulty simply might have been that Ireland did not have a luge organization. So, she 8one herself; she had to 9.
And now, 10, she is a luge Olympian. "I'm a doctor in general surgery, I have all these really visible challenges, but I think everyone has worked as 11as they can to be here." She has delayed parts of her job to compete in the Olympics, but her 12gave her the time off. And her co-workers are becoming big luge fans, extremely proud of her.
Desmond has 13two demanding jobs — sliding a few months out of the year and living a life in medicine. Last season there was a(n) 14when she had to take important medical examinations in hotels in Germany where other sliders were staying. "I had to 15signs on my door saying 'Do not disturb, exam in 16'in about six different languages."
Desmond got the 17of representing her country in Beijing, and being one of two people 18Ireland's flag during the opening ceremony on Friday. "I don't think I can 19words how excited I was to lead out the team. I really hope that I make my country 20."
A homeless man rescued all the animals at a shelter after it caught on fire. Hamlin, the1of the W-Underdogs shelter, told CNN.
Keith Walker, 53, a homeless man, 2his life to save several cats and dogs3at an Atlanta animal shelter after it caught fire, the facility's founder said.
"I was nervous as hell. I was really4to go in there with all that smoke. But God put me there to save those animals and I 5into the shelter after a fire engulfed(吞没) its kitchen." Walker told CNN. "If you love a dog, you can love anyone in the world. My dog is my best friend, and I wouldn't be here6him, so I knew I had to save all those other dogs. "
7the shelter was not completely destroyed, the fire left it uninhabitable, according to W-Underdogs founder Gracie Hamlin.
"He is my guardian angel," Hamlin told CNN. "Even the firefighters didn't want to8dogs. They called animal control, but Keith was already in the building pulling out the cats and dogs until they were all9"
Hamlin10knew Walker, who has been homeless since he was 13 years old, because she lets him11his dog, a pit bull named Bravo, at the shelter every night.
Walker was on his way to12Bravo and take him for a walk when he saw the fire. He was able to rescue all the animals-six dogs and ten cats.
"I can't thank him13for saving my animals," Hamlin said. "I'm still in14because I've been around a fire and I know how fast it spreads. Homeless man as he is, Walker is my 15".
