According to an April 8 report from WTO, world trade is expected to fall _______13 to 32 percent in 2020 due to the disruption of CO VID-19.
A.to B.in C.by D.of
Many senior high school students have returned and been plunged into preparations for the national college entrance exam, ________will be postponed by one month.
A.as B.what C.which D.it
On April 7, Nature published _____ article named Stop the Coronavirus Stigma(污名) Now and apologized for associating the virus with Wuhan and China.
A.the B.a C.an D./
Inspiration can be a strange thing. You never know when it might _______. And sometimes, it can come from the most _______ places.
I recently read about an author named Nnedi Okorafor When she was in college, she had a serious spine disorder （脊椎病）.Okorafor was told that a simple operation could _______ it. But when she woke up from her _______ . she found that she couldn't move her legs and was in great pain.
Okorafor got _______ later. But before she did. she saw strange things in her hospital room. She imagined her _______ as a beast that hunted her from the shadows. But she also _______ a woman 一 a woman who could fly, in fact. This _______ woman inspired her and helped her _______ her pain. "I felt myself become ________ she wrote in her book Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected.
We ________ know where we might find the inspiration to create. As a ________ most of my inspiration comes from other people's music. But I also find ________ in other places. Books, movies and ________ Just moments in everyday life can lead to new creations.
________ I recently rewatched the film Blade Runner. I've seen it plenty of times before; it’ s one of my favorite movies. But this time, for some reasons, I saw it ________ . I decided to make music that could create the same feeling as the ________ It's not done yet. but the music I'm working on now is heavily ________ by the movie's setting and characters.
Anything can ________ us. You just have to be ________ to catch inspiration when it hits.
1.A.work B.hit C.exist D.pass
2.A.interesting B.ordinary C.unexpected D.dangerous
3.A.fix B.make C.get D.control
4.A.dream B.shock C.recovery D.operation
5.A.well B.bad C.worried D.annoyed
6.A.curiosity B.pain C.anger D.fear
7.A.asked B.met C.imagined D.visited
8.A.confident B.smart C.honest D.magical
9.A.forget B.recognize C.describe D.practice
10.A.richer B.greater C.busier D.quieter
11.A.always B.never C.sometimes D.still
12.A.director B.dancer C.musician D.writer
13.A.tips B.messages C.examples D.ideas
14.A.even B.again C.not D.only
15.A.In short B.In addition C.For example D.After all
16.A.differently B.perfectly C.vividly D.smoothly
17.A.story B.song C.play D.film
18.A.changed B.supported C.disturbed D.influenced
19.A.impress B.inspire C.amuse D.challenge
20.A.free B.thankful C.ready D.careful
How do you get yourself to take action now? Here arc some powerful suggestions.
Focus intensely on the positive things that your actions will accomplish. 1. Whether it's something you're seeking to accomplish, or something you're seeking to be rid of. picture exactly how your life will be after the work is done. The more intensely you can imagine it, the better.
2. The only real reason you have for avoiding action is because you associate some kind of pain or discomfort with it. Therefore, it helps to associate something even more painful with not taking action. Instead of focusing on the relatively minor pain of taking action, focus instead on the major pain of not taking action.
3. Think of all the reasons you can come up with to not take action, and then destroy all those reasons with a single word —"But." Simply state the excuse, put the word "but" after it, and then finish the sentence. For example, “I’ve never done this before, BUT I can learn." Stick the word "but" in there, and challenge yourself to finish the sentence.
Take the first small step. Don't even concern yourself with committing to the whole project or course of action. Just do something very easy and very small. The point is to find a little momentum（动力）4. Then climb aboard the momentum train, and let it help you keep the effort going.
Make it fun. Realize that just about anything can be fun if you'll think of it as fun and enjoyable. Find a way to make something fun, and not only will you want to do it; you'll also be better at it. 5.
A.You always choose what to do,
B.Lay all your excuses out on the table and deal with them.
C.In your mind, picture in great detail what your actions will bring you.
D.Whatever you must do to achieve success, find a way to enjoy it.
E.Focus on the negative things that will happen if you don't take action.
F.Getting started with your biggest task or most difficult action may seem too much.
G.Once you take that small action, let yourself fully enjoy how great it feels.
During the outbreak of novel coronavirus, cities are locked down and borders are closed. Science, on the contrary, is becoming more open. And this "open science” is already making a difference.
Soon after the epidemic started in China, a research team from Fudan University in Shanghai successfully sequenced （测定序列）the DNA of the virus. But they didn't keep the information to themselves. Instead, they placed the sequences on GenBank, an open-access data platform, so researchers around the world could download them for free and start studying the virus.
Due to this openness, pharmaceutical companies across the globe arc now able to work at the same time to develop a vaccine （疫苗）."There may be room for multiple different vaccines for different purposes and different age groups,” Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security in the US, told Al Jazccra. "The bigger menu we have of vaccines, the more resilient （有 适应 力的）we'll be against coronavirus outbreaks in the future."
Major drug companies around the world arc also sharing their study results. Remdesivir, a drug originally developed by US company Gilead Sciences to treat Ebola, is found to be promising in fighting against the novel coronavinis. Currently, two trials of the drug arc already underway in China, and the results might be available as soon as April, according to The Verge.
This openness in science is going to be even more important in the future. “With climate change, increasing globalization, and population shifts, epidemics will not go away, and might even become more frequent,” Dan Barouch, a Harvard Medical School professor, told Harvard Magazine.
He said, “No one group can do everything. It has to be a coordinated approach. But I do think that the world has a greater sense of readiness this time to develop knowledge, drugs, and therapeutics （疗法）very rapidly.”
Every epidemic is indeed a crisis, but it can also be a learning opportunity. One redeeming （补偿的）factor of the COVID-19 outbreak is that it is helping science adapt for the better.
1.What does the article mainly talk about?
A.Coordinated efforts to fight the epidemic.
B.Something positive we've learned from the epidemic.
C.The significance of openness and sharing of scientific knowledge.
D.What needs to be done to prevent future epidemics.
2.What is the positive effect of the research team from Fudan University placing the genetic sequence of the virus onto GenBank?
A.They alerted the world to the danger of the virus.
B.They helped remove people's fear of the virus.
C.They showed the world how to produce a vaccine.
D.They invited collective efforts worldwide to develop a vaccine.
3.What is the author's purpose of mentioning Remdesivir in the text?
A.To introduce a possible cure for the epidemic.
B.To compare the treatment of Ebola and the novel coronavirus.
C.To prove that many drug companies readily share their discoveries-
D.To show that the novel coronavirus will soon be contained.
4.Which of the following would Dan Barouch probably disagree with?
A.Epidemics will be less frequent thanks to scientific development.
B.The world is becoming better prepared to deal with epidemics.
C.No single group can fight against the epidemics independently.
D.The increase in globalization may worsen future epidemics.
