The act of social distancing has become an effective protective measure against the novel coronavirus and a part of everyday life across the world. Many countries have launched different social distancing measures. Some are strict while others are creative. Let’s take a look at three special quarantine (隔离) measures around the world.
Panama
With more than 3,000 confirmed cases by April 12, Panama has announced strict quarantine measures. One of them is to separate people by gender to go out.
Starting in April, males in the country are required to leave home on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday while females can go out on Monday, Wednesday and Friday every week. No one is allowed to go out on Sundays. To further prevent the spread of COVID-19, citizens are able to leave their homes for only two hours at a time. But according to the Guardian, the restriction measures do not apply to civil servants or her important staff who are battling against the novel coronavirus on the frontline.
Colombia
ID numbers are unique identification tools for individuals, but they may also be used to decide when people can go out in Colombia during the novel coronavirus epidemic. According to the BBC, people in some Colombian towns are allowed to be outside based on the last digit (数字) of their national ID number. For example, in northwest-central Colombia, Barrancabermeja, people with an ID number ending in zero, four or seven are allowed to leave the house on Monday, while those with an ID number ending in one, five or eight can go outside on Tuesday.
France
Though outdoor exercise is a good way to keep healthy, it can sometimes cause too many people to gather in one place. In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Paris has forbidden all outdoor exercise between 10 am and 7 pm. Outside of this time span, people are allowed to exercise individually as long as it’s for less than an hour and within one kilometer of their home. If people break the rule, they will face fines of between €135 ( about 1,040 yuan) and €375.
1.What can we learn about Panama’s social distancing measures?
A.All citizens should follow the rules of going out by gender.
B.Ordinary citizens can stay outside for at most two hours at a time.
C.Civil servants are allowed to go out every day except on Sundays.
D.None can go out for dinner, starting in April.
2.Which group is allowed to go out on Tuesdays in Barrancabermeja, during the epidemic?
A.Females.
B.Males.
C.Those with an ID number ending in one, five or eight.
D.Those with an ID number ending in zero, four or seven.
3.Which of the following follows the rules in France?
A.Cycling around one’s home at 6 pm. B.Playing badminton in front of one’s house at noon.
C.Playing basketball with friends at 9 pm. D.Jogging alone near one’s home from 8 am to 8:30 am.
假设你是李华，你校图书馆准备购置一批新书，以下是现有图书的情况（图表）。现广 泛征求学生的意见。请发一封邮件至校长信箱，你的邮件内容需包括：
（1）描述现有图书情况；
（2）你希望购置哪一类图书及理由。
注意：
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2. 词数120左右；
3. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
4. 开头语已为你写好。
Dear headmaster,
I’m Li Hua, a student from Grade 1, Class 1_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours truly,
Li Hua
根据首字母或中文提示，用第三第四模块所学单词的适当形式完成下列句子。
1.Despite the power cuts, the hospital continued to f________ (正常运转)normally.
2.To keep fit, you’d better make exercise a part of your daily r________ (常规).
3.Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, buses do not run so f________ (频繁) between the city and the airport.
4.No one could have believed that Zhang Jiacheng, the one-armed teenager, would one day wow the world on the basketball court by means of s________ (社交) media.
5.Nowadays people in China are encouraged to run a street stall (摊位) to p________ (促进) the economy.
6.It’s so c________ (方便) to be able to compare the quality and prices from different online shops before I purchase something.
We have two dogs. We took in both after they were abandoned (抛弃) in the country. They will run off at any chance. _________ my yard is fenced (栅栏), I have to keep them chained (拴住) to avoid paying any fines for _________ them from the city pound (流浪狗收容所).
This morning as I was walking the first one out, the second ran past me quickly. I called for her to return, but she chose to _________ my words and headed off. Despite my best _________ at calm and peacefulness, having a dog disobey me did make me mad.
Anyway, when I drove to pick up my daughter from school I just _________ to mention that Cady might be _________. I added that if she was put into the pound, I would not be paying her _________ this time.
“_________?” my daughter asked. “Is it just the money?”
“Well, partly it’s the money. It will be probably over $100 _________ all is done. But mostly it is because I am __________ with her?” I __________ “I will not keep such a dog, never!”
I noticed that my daughter had her head turned away from me and had not said a __________ word for over 5 minutes.
“Why does this __________ you so much?” I wondered out loud.
My daughter said, “Dad, you just don’t __________ . If Cady is at the pound, since she is three years old and not __________ housebroken (训练好的), who would pick her? That means they will kill her.”
Then I __________ that the only reason I kept the dog in the first place was that we could not find a __________ for her and did not want her to be __________ by Animal Control. My __________ softened.
As we __________ the driveway, there stood Cady in the yard, tail wagging and ready for some supper.
Children are such incredible teachers!
1.A.As though B.In case C.Now that D.Even though
2.A.recovering B.removing C.representing D.relieving
3.A.consider B.accept C.ignore D.grasp
4.A.efforts B.devotions C.memories D.indications
5.A.happened B.hesitated C.occurred D.attempted
6.A.barking B.running C.rolling D.missing
7.A.money B.fines C.bill D.debts
8.A.So what B.Why not C.How about D.Since when
9.A.after B.since C.before D.until
10.A.sad B.angry C.worried D.embarrassed
11.A.suggested B.realized C.promised D.insisted
12.A.simple B.slight C.single D.suitable
13.A.shock B.excite C.upset D.confuse
14.A.interrupt B.mistake C.help D.understand
15.A.even B.ever C.just D.only
16.A.reminded B.remembered C.found D.sensed
17.A.way B.home C.reason D.time
18.A.destroyed B.picked C.raised D.fed
19.A.mind B.feeling C.heart D.head
20.A.broke into B.pulled into C.looked into D.ran into
For immigrant (移民) parents, passing on their native languages can be a struggle.
“You understand grandmother when she talks to you, don’t you, darling?” The girl nods. Johnson met her — and her Danish mother and English father — at the airport, on the way to Denmark. The parents were eager to discuss their experience of bringing up their daughter bilingually (双语) in London. It isn’t easy: the husband does not speak Danish, so the child hears the language only from her mother, who has come to accept that her daughter will reply in English.
This can be painful. Not sharing your first language with loved ones is hard. Not passing it on to your own child can be especially hard. Many immigrant parents feel a sense of failure; they are worried and share stories on parenting forums and social media, hoping to find the secret to bringing up bilingual children successfully.
Children are linguistic sponges (海绵), but this doesn’t mean that brief exposure (接触) is enough. They must hear a language quite a bit to understand it — and use it often to be able to speak it comfortably. This is mental work, and a child who doesn’t have a motive (动机) to speak a language — either a need or a strong desire — will often avoid it. Children’s brains are already busy enough.
So languages often fade and die when parents move abroad. Consider America. The foreign-born share of the population is 13.7%, and has never been lower than 4.7% (in 1970). And yet foreign-language speakers don’t increase: today just 25% of the population speaks another language. That’s because, usually, the first generation born in America is bilingual, and the second is monolingual (单语) — in English, the children often struggling to speak easily with their immigrant grandparents.
In the past, governments discouraged immigrant families from keeping their languages. These days, officials tend to be tolerant; some even see a valuable resource in immigrants’ language abilities. Yet many factors ensure that children still lose their parents’ languages, or never learn them.
1.Find out or write out one sentence to state the main idea of this passage.
2.The underlined word “it”, in Paragraph 2 refer to ________.
3.Restate (重新叙述) the main meaning of the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3.
4.The statistics in Paragraph 4 are used to support the idea that ________.
5.Find out one word to show the American officials’ present attitude toward immigrants keeping their languages.
The sixth mass extinction (灭绝) is not a worry for the future. It’s happening now, much faster than expected before, and it’s entirely our fault, according to a study published Monday.
Humans have already wiped out hundreds of species (物种) and pushed many more to the edge (边缘) of extinction through wildlife trade, pollution and habitat loss. 1.
Gerardo Ceballos Gonzalez, a professor of ecology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said approximately 173 species died out between 2001 and 2014, which is 25 times more extinct species than you would expect under the normal, background, extinction speed.
2. There have been five mass extinction (大规模灭绝) events in the Earth’s history, each wiping out between 70% and 95% of the species of plants, animals and microorganisms. The most recent, 66 million years ago, saw dinosaurs disappear.
The past events were caused by terrible changes of the environment The sixth mass extinction - the one happening now - is different: it’s caused by humans.
3. But it took millions of years to restore(恢复)the number of species.
When one species in the ecosystem disappears, it destroys the entire ecosystem and pushes other species toward destruction. 4.
Hundreds of species of frogs are suffering population decrease and extinctions because of the chytrid fungus (真菌) disease, which is sometimes spread into new areas by humans. Climate change is likely making it worse.
5. The researchers also said the current COVID-19 shows how the carelessness with which people treat the natural world can backfire badly.
The researchers said this data highlights the urgency (紧急) with which the world needs to act. Later this year, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity is expected to set new global goals to fight the ongoing biodiversity (生物多样性) problem in the coming decades.
A.Mass extinctions are just as serious as their name suggests.
B.This interdependency (相互依存) of different species is bad news for humans, too.
C.But the speed at which species are dying out has quickened up in recent decades.
D.We humans are destroying the biodiversity of the world we evolved into.
E.Life on Earth has recovered after each of these events.
F.The researchers use amphibians (两栖动物) as an example of this phenomena.
G.Many species have evolved to deal with climate changes.
