After two hours’ discussion, they finally reached an ________. (协议)
—Who gets up the________ (早) in your family? —My mum. She cooks breakfast for Dad and me.
What we need to do now is to try to protect the environment from being ________（污染）.
Everyone is busy preparing for our grandpa’s________ birthday. (九十九)
Cabin hospitals save more lives
Feng Bangli, from Wuhan, Hubei, began to have a fever at the end of January and suspected that he had been infected with the virus. He tried several times to be admitted to a hospital but failed. He finally gave up and stayed at home, taking drugs given by doctors.
“At that time, too many patients were waiting to see doctors at every hospital, and it was not possible for me to get a bed,” said Feng. Days later, with the community staff’s help, Feng tested positive for COVID-19 and was sent to a makeshift hospital (临时医院) for treatment.
“Without such makeshift hospitals, many COVID-19 patients like me may never have found a bed,” said Feng.
Like Feng, over 12,000 COVID-19 patients in Wuhan received treatment and care at 15 makeshift hospitals. These hospitals were mainly used to receive patients with mild symptoms (轻症).
“Building makeshift hospitals was a key decision made in such an important moment when Wuhan was facing a formidable task of epidemic (疫情) control, and it has played an important role in both prevention and treatment of the disease,” he said.
“Makeshift hospitals have greatly eased pressure and made it possible to treat and isolate people in need,” said Xu Junmei, vice-president of Wuchang makeshift hospital.
Makeshift hospitals have now been copied in other countries. Eight makeshift hospitals are being built in Tehran, Iran, to fight against the virus. The one changed from the Iran Mall, the largest shopping mall in the country, is expected to have a total of 3,000 beds, according to People’s Daily.
On March 29, New York changed a grassy meadow in Central Park into a makeshift hospital, where it will provide 68 hospital beds.
“Considering the ways we can increase hospital capacity right now is very important,” says Dr Andrew Ibrahim, a surgeon at the University of Michigan told Architecture. “If hospitals can’t receive more patients, new facilities need to be built up.”
1.What does the writer want to tell us by using Feng Bangli’s example?
A.COVID-19 has infected a large number of people in a very short time.
B.Hospitals should always be prepared for any unexpected situations.
C.The COVID-19 outbreak happened suddenly without the slightest warning.
D.Makeshift hospitals have played an important role in the fight against COVID-19.
2.What does the underlined word “formidable” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A.new B.basic C.tough D.strange
3.What did Dr Andrew Ibrahim think of Tehran’s and New York’s new makeshift hospitals?
A.They wasted resources. B.They were greatly helpful.
C.They were not practical. D.They would not be as useful as China’s.
4.What is the main purpose of the article?
A.To praise China’s quick response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
B.To call on other countries to copy China’s method of fighting the virus.
C.To show the value of building makeshift hospitals to fight COVID-19.
D.To compare the measures different countries have taken to deal with COVID-19.
Divided into two groups, the students were busy in a kitchen at the High Point Community Center in Seattle, US. Instructor Asia Faircloth taught one group how to cook vermicelli (意式细面) bowls with chicken. The other group joined Jacob Alhadeff to practice new skills with knives.
The center’s four-week cooking course was centered on cooking and food justice. To teach more people about the importance of having nutritious food, the city had students from low-income families through social media. Each student received 100 dollars (700 yuan) at the end of the course.
“Low-income people are more likely to feel the effects of food injustice,” Alhadeff said. “So providing cooking instruction and putting money back in the pockets of our community members seemed like a no-brainer (容易做的决定).”
Alhadeff and Faircloth started the course not only to teach kids how to cook, but also to encourage them to think more deeply about food. They were shown how to connect personal choices with the economic cost of obesity, climate change and global food supplies.
Tahir Adams and Najah Goodrich, two juniors at Seattle Lutheran High School, joined the classes. They talked about how farmers have a hard time putting food on their own kitchen tables while growing fresh products for the rest of the country. They were proud of the new skills and recipes they learned.
“We started with more personal things, then looked at the bigger, global view ... like, how climate change is related to food,” Adams said. “It can be really bad when droughts turn places into actual deserts and droughts cause civil unrest.”
1.What do we know about the cooking course?
A.It focused only on cooking. B.It was held in Seattle, US.
C.Its students were from wealthy families. D.Each student got 100 dollars at the beginning of the course.
2.In Paragraph 3, Alhadeff________.
A.explains the standards for choosing students B.complains that community members are stupid
C.proves that it’s a good idea to give students free money D.explains why the course provides cooking instruction
3.In the course, students were ________.
A.taught how to reduce obesity B.taught to focus on problems about food safety
C.taught to make their own choices D.encouraged to think more deeply about food
4.What can we conclude from what Adams and Goodrich said?
A.They learned nothing from the course. B.They learned recipes from farmers.
C.The course widened their views on food. D.The course taught them how to solve droughts.
