What are coronaviruses? Coronaviruses were discovered in the 1960s. They are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections.
The new coronavirus. At the end of 2019, a new type of coronavirus started spreading in China. This type of coronavirus is often called 2019-nCoV, novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. It is believed that the virus was transmitted from animals to humans. Some of the first cases were diagnosed in people who had visited a market selling live seafood and animals. Unfortunately, when viruses are transmitted from animals to people it can take scientists a lot of time before they can develop a vaccine or medicines to cure it.
How does the virus spread? The virus appears to spread mainly from person to person. The transmission occurs when someone comes into contact with an infected person. For example, a cough, a sneeze or a handshake could cause transmission. The spread may also be caused by coming into contact with something an infected person has touched and then touching your mouth, nose or eyes.
virus 病毒 mammal 哺乳动物 respiratory 呼吸的 infection 感染
transmit 传染 case 病例 diagnose 诊断 cure 治愈 occur 发生
contact 接触
1.When were coronaviruses discovered?
A.In the 1960s. B.In the 1970s. C.In the 1980s.
2.Where did the new coronaviruses start spreading at the end of 2019?
A.In China. B.In America. C.All over the world.
3.Is it easy for the doctors to cure COVID-19?
A.Yes, it is. B.No, it isn’t. C.Not mentioned.
4.How many ways are mentioned for the spread of the new coronaviruses?
A.1. B.2. C.3.
近日新冠肺炎疫情 (epidemic) 趋近平稳， 但卫生问题仍需要重视。社区成为预防新冠肺炎的重点，日常的消毒任务很繁重。
假设你所在的社区组织了一次志愿活动，打扫社区卫生，进行全方位消毒，以保持社区的环境卫生。你和你的父母都非常支持，并参加了这次志愿活动。请以此为内容，根据下面的提示，写一篇关于这次活动的作文。
要点：
1. 你们为这次活动准备了什么？如：口罩 (face masks)、手套 (gloves)、靴子 (boots)。
2. 活动中你们做了什么？如：打扫了楼梯 (staircase)、电梯 (lift) 并进行消毒 (disinfect)。
3. 你从这次活动中学到了什么？
注意：
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Recently, COVID-19 epidemic has slowed down its pace and cleaning up has become a top priority for communities to prevent novel coronavirus.
Our community also organized voluntary work.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Each individual action has an effect and every person can make a difference － through a mass we can turn the tide.
Did you know that “OK” has1.birthday? It’s on March 23. And this year, the word “OK” will be 181 years old.
“OK” is widely2. (speak) all over the world, New York Daily News reported.
It was first introduced3.the world in the Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839. It read “o.k. – oll korrect (all correct)”. It was only a joke at that time. But 4. (late) “OK”became widely used in documents and telegraphs (电报). People used it to say that all was well.
Today, we use it almost every day. “How about 2 o’clock? OK?” “OK.” The word “OK” is easy to say and write. It is also clear enough for people5. (understand).
It also has neutrality (中性) that other words don’t have. You may say something is great, while other people may say it isn’t. 6.with “OK”, everyone usually agrees.
There are different ways of spelling “OK”: okay, ok, and O.K. for example. But they all sound the same. However, “OK” is7. (widely) used spelling and is often used in writing. People sometimes use “okay” when writing because it looks more like a real word.
“OK” is so useful8.it’s known around the world. You may not know the language9. someone who’s talking to you, but10. (say) “OK” with gestures helps you understand each other.
Many ordinary people ranging from volunteers to media workers have dedicated (奉献) themselves to fighting the novel coronavirus. They prove that ordinary people can still do their part during difficult times.
On Feb 12, Dalian (not his real name) was taking a train to Changsha, Hunan, for a business trip. While on the train, he went into a carriage (车厢) to have lunch and chose to remain in the carriage. He did not realize that the carriage was only for people heading to Wuhan.
Several hours later, when the train arrived in Wuhan, Dalian was asked to get off, as he was in the special carriage. Although he was surprised, he didn’t want to cause trouble and got off the carriage with just a single bag.
As Wuhan had been locked down because of the epidemic (疫情), Dalian couldn’t find a hotel to stay in. Feeling at a loss, he saw a notice online looking for volunteers to work in hospitals. The payment was 500 yuan a day. Dalian decided to give it a try.
He soon became a volunteer at Wuhan No. 1 Hospital. He was responsible for taking out trash, mopping (拖) the floor, disinfecting (消毒) the hospital, dealing with used protective suits and bringing meals to patients.
The young man, reportedly from northeast China, had to work 12 hours every day, changing his protective suit three times a day. While working, he couldn’t drink anything or go to the bathroom. He also had to have close contact with infected patients, which is risky.
Dalian was afraid of getting infected at first. “When I entered the wards (病房), I was kind of frozen (僵硬的) and felt like I couldn’t move,” he said. But after seeing more patients get better, his fear gradually went away.
Dalian’s story has since gone viral (走红的) online. People were surprised by his experience, but also described him as having “a heart of gold”.
1.Why did Dalian have to get off in Wuhan?
A.Because he went there for a business trip.
B.Because he was in the wrong carriage.
C.Because he chose to have lunch in Wuhan.
D.Because he bought the wrong train ticket.
2.What made Dalian decide to work at a hospital?
A.He had volunteer experience.
B.He ran out of money.
C.He wanted to become a doctor.
D.He had nowhere to go.
3.Dalian’s job includes ________.
a. taking out trash and mopping the floor
b. disinfecting others’ protective suits
c. dealing with used protective suits
d. bringing meals to doctors
A.ab B.ac C.bd D.cd
4.What does this passage try to tell us?
A.Everybody should volunteer.
B.We must protect ourselves at all times.
C.Everyone can fight the virus in their own way.
D.We should be grateful for medical workers.
Li Ziqi, a popular star on the Internet, has more than 58 million fans on social media platform both in China and around the world. She is famous because of her videos. She even became the ambassador(形象大使) for the 7th International Festival Cultural Heritage(形象大使) in October 2019 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
Li seems to be a master of all kinds of skills — cooking, painting, designing and brining. The most special thing is that she does almost everything in a traditional Chinese way. In her videos, Li always wears homemade hanfu. She raises ducks in order to make a sauce from salted duck eggs. She makes bamboo furniture all by herself. She also grows plants and vegetables, and prepares meals with what she harvests. She makes life in the countryside very beautiful.
Li was born in 1990 in a small village of Sichuan Province in southwestern China. Her parents died when she was still very young and her stepmother treated her badly, so she finally grew up with her grandparents. When she was 14, she went to the city in search of work but she decided to return to the countryside in 2012 to take care of her grandmother.
Four years later, she began filming her life there, “When I worked in the city, it was about how to survive,” Li says. “Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I’m truly living.” Li’s videos record how she works and her daily lives with her grandmother in their modest home. She says: “I simply want people in the city to know where their food comes from,” Li says. “A teacher friend once told me about some students who thought rice grew on trees, ___________.
Many people wonder why Li shares these videos. Li once said: “In today’s society, many people feel stressed, so when they watch my videos at the end of a busy day, I want them to relax and sense something nice, to take away some of their worry and stress.”
1.Li Ziqi becomes a popular online star because of ___________.
A.her videos about her daily lives B.her poor life as a child
C.raising ducks in the countryside D.becoming the ambassador
2.Li went to the city at the age of 14 in order to ___________.
A.take care of her grandma B.live a true life
C.be away from her stepmother D.look for a chance to work
3.She began filming her life in ___________.
A.1990 B.2012 C.2016 D.2019
4.Which of the following is the best choice for the blank in Paragraph 4?
A.because I am very interested in the life of children in the city
B.so I want kids in the city to know where their food comes from
C.so I want kids to know how hard farmers’ work to provide food for them
D.because I know children in the countryside are different from those in the city
He creates fantasy worlds with witches (女巫), floating castles and flying pigs. He is Hayao Miyazaki, also known as “Japan’s Walt Disney”.
In 2016, the 75-year-old returned to make Boro the Caterpillar (《毛毛虫菠萝》), a computer-generated (CG) short movie, into a feature film.
“Miyazaki … will keep making films until he dies”, Toshio Suzuki, an experienced producer at Studio Ghibli, told Variety magazine. For Boro, Miyazaki, who has always used hand-drawn 2D animation, will work with computer technology.
The animation may be different, but Miyazaki’s movies always have something in common.
Many themes are seen again and again in his films.
Two of these themes are the sky and water. From his early film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (《风之谷》, 1984) to his popular 2004 movie Howl’s Moving Castle (《哈尔的移动城堡》), Miyazaki’s films are full of flight. The water is another place where gravity doesn’t work. Miyazaki loves quickly filling spaces with clear water, leaving things to float.
Another repeated idea in Miyazaki’s work is the Earth’s fragility (脆弱性). He often criticizes (批评) development and pollution. Princess Mononoke (《幽灵公主》) shows villagers cutting down a forest to provide fuel for their iron factory, while natural forces fight against them.
In his movies, there is often no clear good or evil. Miyazaki has explained that he sees the 21st century as a complex time. Simple stereotypes cannot be accepted, he said, even in children’s films.
1.Hayao Miyazaki was born ________.
A.in 1940 B.in 1941 C.in 1942 D.in 1943
2.In which film did Miyazaki show his attitude?
A.Boro the Caterpillar
B.Howl’s Moving Castle
C.Princess Mononoke
D.Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
3.What does the underlined word “complex” in the last paragraph mean?
A.easy B.modern
C.standard D.difficult to understand
4.What do we know from the passage?
A.Miyazaki learnt to draw from his mother.
B.Miyazaki has given up drawing animation by hand.
C.Miyazaki is starting to focus on protecting the environment
D.Miyazaki doesn’t like using simple stereotypes in his films.
