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中考英语时事阅读第17期
目录 内容
Passage 1：阅读理解 全球科学界力量携手应对疫情
Passage 2：阅读理解 耿直专业接地气：“硬核”医生张文宏
Passage 3：阅读表达 东北小伙误入武汉当志愿者
Passage 4：表格填空 顺势而变的各国问候方式
Passage 5：写作 最令我们感动的人
Passage 1：Worldwide defence
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 (制药的) companies across the globe are
now able to work simultaneously (同时地) to develop a vaccine. “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 Jazeera. “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 are 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 coronavirus. Currently,
two trials of the drug are 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 crucial (关键的) 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 (合作的)
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.
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?
alerted the world to the danger of the virus.
B. They helped remove people’s fear of the virus.
showed the world how to produce a vaccine.
invited collective efforts worldwide to develop a vaccine.
3：What is the author’s purpose of mentioning remdesivir in the text?
introduce a possible cure for the epidemic.
B. To compare the treatment of Ebola and the novel coronavirus.
prove that many drug companies readily share their discoveries.
show that the novel coronavirus will soon be contained.
4：Which of the following would Dan Barouch probably disagree with?
ics will be less frequent thanks to scientific development.
B. The world is becoming better prepared to deal with epidemics.
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