A shop owner placed a sign above his door that said: “Puppies For Sale.” Signs like this always have a way of attracting young children, and to no surprise, a boy saw the sign and approached the owner.
“How much are you going to sell the puppies for?” he asked.
The store owner replied, “Anywhere from $30 to $50.”
The little boy pulled out some change from his pocket. “I have $2.37,” he said. “Can I please look at them?”
The shop owner smiled and whistled. A lady ran down the aisle of his shop followed by five tiny balls of fur.
One puppy was lagging considerably behind. Immediately the little boy singled out the lagging puppy and said, “What’s wrong with that little dog?”
The shop owner explained the puppy was disabled by nature and it would always be lame. The little boy became excited. “I’ll buy it.” The shop owner said, “No, you don’t want to buy that little dog. If you really want him, I’ll just give him to you.” The little boy looked straight into the store owner’s eyes, pointing his finger, and said, “I don’t want you to give him to me. That little dog is worth every bit as much as all the other dogs and I’ll pay full price. In fact, I’ll give you $2.37 now, and 50 cents a month until I have him paid for.”
The shop owner countered, “You really don’t want to buy this little dog. He is never going to be able to run and play with you like the other puppies.”
To his surprise, the little boy reached down and rolled up his pant leg to reveal a badly twisted, crippled left leg supported by a big metal brace. He looked up at the shop owner and softly replied, “Well, I don’t run so well myself, and the little puppy will need someone who understands!”
1. From the passage we can infer ______.| A．The owner persuaded the boy out of buying the lame dog. |
| B．The dog was badly treated because it was different from other dogs. |
| C．The boy decided to pay the owner at least $30 for the lame dog. |
| D．The boy decided to pay off the rest of the money in a month. |
| A．Because the boy was disabled as well. |
| B．Because the puppy recovered one day. |
| C．Because the lady sold the disabled puppy. |
| D．Because the boy refused his offer. |
| A．said | B．argued | C．yelled | D．persuaded |
| A．love | B．kindness | C．generosity | D．understanding |
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“Hey, Sheba,” she said, “I’ve got no time for you now, but I’ll take you out as soon as I get back from tennis club.” Then she noticed Sheba seemed to be coughing or choking. Obviously, she could hardly breathe. Immediately, Joanne realized she would have to take her to the vet.
When she got there, the vet was just about to close for the day. Seeing the state of Sheba, Dr. Sterne brought her quickly into his office.
“Listen, doctor, I’m really in a rush to get to a meeting. Can I leave her with you, and go and get changed? I’ll be back in ten minutes to pick her up, and then I’ll take her on to the meeting with me. Is that OK?”
“Sure.” said the doctor.
Joanne made the quick trip back to her house in a couple of minutes. As she was once more entering the hall, the phone by the door began to ring.
“This is Dr. Sterne,” said an anxious voice. “I want you to get out of that house immediately,” said the doctor’s voice. “I’m coming round right away, and the police will be there any time now. Wait outside!”
At that moment, a police car screeched to a stop outside the house. Two policemen got out and ran into the house. Joanne was by now completely confused and very frightened. Then the doctor arrived.
“Where’s Sheba? Is she OK?” shouted Joanne.
“She is fine, Joanne. I took out the thing which was choking her, and she’s OK now.”
Just then, the two policemen reappeared from the house, half-carrying a white-faced man, who could hardly walk. There was blood all over him.
“My God,” said Joanne, “how did he get in there? And how did you know he was there?”
“I think he must be a burglar.” said the doctor. “I knew he was there because when I finally removed what was stuck in Sheba’s throat: it turned out to be three human fingers.”
1. From the passage we can infer that ________.
| A．the police found the burglar had broken in |
| B．Joanne had planned to take her dog to the meeting at first |
| C．Sheba fought against the burglar |
| D．the doctor performed a difficult operation on the dog |
| A．thief | B．physician | C．cleaner | D．murderer |
| A．clever | B．devoted | C．frightening | D．friendly |
| A．Joanne had no time to take Sheba to the vet because she had to go to a meeting. |
| B．It was the doctor who found what the dog had done had called the police. |
| C．The woman left the dog with the vet and picked her up after the meeting. |
| D．The woman was warned not to enter the house because there was a burglar. |
【推荐2】Jack, a clinical nurse specialist, retied on his 65th birthday. He told his wife, Sally, he would “start out as an adventure cyclist.”
Four months later, he set off on a 13, 000 km cycle ride from Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia to Edinburgh, much of it roughly shadowing Marco Polo’s Silk Road. No sooner had he started out than a snowstorm hit. He hid in his tent, wearing every item of clothing he had packed. At -18℃ it was too cold to go outside to cook. He survived the next 48 hours by eating a massive bag of chocolates. So it is a surprise to hear Jack say that he has never feared for his life. “Never. There’s always something to be curious about,” he says.
In 2018, hero de from Edinburgh to Istanbul to earn a place in Guinness World Records. “There are very few records a man over 60 can break,” he says. During the trip, he got a dozen punctures (轮胎上刺破的小孔). But he fixed each one. “I’ve always been serious about purpose. If something is to be done, it is to be done properly. People go forwards and people go backwards. The difficult bit is managing the times when people go backwards,” he says. “Don’t let the moment ruin the whole thing.”
He turns 71 this year. He is about to begin the 1, 407 km trip to John O’Groats. It sounds tough but he insists “it just a matter of spinning the wheels.” Still, they don’t spin on their own. His daughter, a yoga teacher, has suggested weights to maintain muscle mass. His son, a cyclist, keeps him up to speed on the latest technology.
Jack is planning new rides in France next year, and beyond that hopes “to spread my wings further. There is peace on a bicycle,” he says. “The joy is the actual doing of the activity. Going further means you’re just doing more of something you enjoy.”
1. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?| A．The scenery Jack saw along the way. |
| B．The challenges Jack faced in the journey. |
| C．The lessons Jack learned from the journey. |
| D．The preparations Jack made for the journey. |
| A．It’s never too old to learn. | B．It’s never too late tom end. |
| C．Never do things by halves. | D．Time and tide wait no man. |
| A．A cyclist and a specialist. | B．His yoga teacher and Sally. |
| C．His daughter and son. | D．The doctors and nurses. |
| A．Generous and creative. | B．Ambitious and persistent. |
| C．Confident and considerate. | D．Imaginative and sympathetic. |
【推荐3】（2016·新课标卷III））On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner. They settled in at a comfortable East Slide cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table.
＂Hey, aren’t you from Mississippi?＂ the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger. ＂I’m from Mississippi too.＂
Without a second thought, the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair.
＂They began telling me all the news of Mississippi,＂ Welty said. ＂I didn’t know what my New York friends were thinking.＂
Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine. By the time the group got up to leave, it was pouring outside. Welty’s new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab. Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion(团聚).
＂My friends said: ‘Now we believe your stories,’＂ Welty added. ＂And I said: ‘Now you know. These are the people that make me write them.’＂
Sitting on a sofa in her room, Welty, a slim figure in a simple gray dress, looked pleased with this explanation.
＂I don’t make them up,＂ she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years. ＂I don’t have to.＂
Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty’s people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, Miss., from conversations overheard on a bus. It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left ear has now given out. Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, she hears only a fragment(片段) of a particularly interesting story.
The underlined word ＂them＂ in Paragraph 6 refers to Welty’s ______| A．readers | B．parties |
| C．friends | D．stories |
【推荐1】Imagine a world in which there was suddenly no emotion — a world in which human beings could feel no love or happiness, no terror or hate. Try to imagine the consequences of such a transformation. People might not be able to stay alive: knowing neither joy nor pleasure, anxiety nor fear, they would be as likely to repeat acts that hurt them as acts that were beneficial. They could not learn: they could not benefit from experience because this emotionless world would lack rewards and punishments. Society would soon disappear: people would be as likely to harm one another as to provide help and support. Human relationships would not exist: in a world without friends or enemies, there could be no marriage, affection among companions, or bonds among members of groups. Society’s economic underpinnings (支柱) would be destroyed: since earning $10 million would be no more pleasant than earning $10, there would be no incentive (刺激, 动机) to work. In fact, there would be no incentives of any kind, for as we will see, incentives imply a capacity to enjoy them.
In such a world, the chances that the human species would survive are next to zero, because emotions are the basic instruments of our survival and adaptation. Emotions structure the world for us in important ways. As individuals, we categorize (分类) objects on the basis of our emotions. True, we consider the length, shape, size or texture (质地, 纹理), but an object’s physical aspects are less important than what it has done or can do to us — hurt us, surprise us, anger us or make us joyful. We also use categorizations colored by emotions in our families, communities, and overall society. Out of our emotional experience with objects and events comes a social feeling of agreement that certain things and actions are “good” and others are “bad”, and we apply these categories to every aspect of our social life — from what foods we eat and what clothes we wear to how we keep promises and which people our group will accept. In fact, society uses our emotional reactions and attitudes, such as loyalty, morality, pride, shame, guilt, fear and greed, in order to maintain itself. It gives high rewards to individuals who perform important tasks such as surgery, makes heroes out of individuals for unusual or dangerous achievements such as flying fighter planes in a war, and uses the legal penal (刑法的) system to make people afraid to engage in antisocial acts.
1. Suppose there is no emotion in the world. Which of the following is TRUE according to the first paragraph?| A．People would not be able to tell the texture of objects. |
| B．People would not know what was beneficial and what was harmful to them. |
| C．$10 million is equal to $10 in a world without emotions. |
| D．There would be full of lies, arguments and violence. |
| A．the ability to make money | B．the capacity to work |
| C．the stimulus (刺激) to work | D．the categorizations of our emotional experiences |
| A．they provide the means by which people view the size or shape of objects |
| B．they are the basis for the social feeling of agreement by which society is maintained |
| C．they encourage people to perform dangerous achievements |
| D．they produce more love than hate among people |
| A．They help society use its members for profit. |
| B．They encourage us to perform important tasks. |
| C．They help to perfect the legal and penal system. |
| D．They help us adapt our behaviors to the world surrounding us. |
| A．People could only live in a world with emotions. |
| B．People would always do bad things in the emotionless world. |
| C．Emotions are very important in the world. |
| D．Emotions structure the world for us in important ways. |
【推荐2】I have a memory of being about five years old, picking up a beautiful grilled(烧烤的） cheese sandwich made for me by my hard —working mother and turning it over to see that the other side was burned. Suddenly what I thought was the perfect sandwich was not so perfect. Mom had tried to hide that fact from me. There was no question; I ate it anyway without complaining. However, that moment has stuck in my mind for many years. Now, at the age of 43 as a mother of two children and as a biology professor where I am routinely the "academic mother" of hundreds of students every year,I find that I believe in The Grilled Cheese Principle.Here is what I mean
Making a grilled cheese sandwich is easy right? But when I think of how many burned grilled cheese sandwiches I have eaten, or I have made myself, I realize that most of the grilled cheese sandwiches I have known have had at least one burned side. The thing is that although it is a relatively easy thing to make, I can also easily lose focus, and before long the sandwich is burned. For my mother, the first side was usually perfect and the second side got burned due to her being distracted. For me,I have tended to burn the first side,but then I more carefully monitor the second side.Either way,the grilled cheese sandwich suffers because it has not been given the attention it deserves
So, I have learned that even the simplest task deserves my full attention. When I am multi-tasking, I am doing none of the tasks well. And when I allow myself to be distracted, I am not in the present moment — not paying attention to the small details of living or enjoying the process
So now, I believe the best way to make a perfect grilled cheese sandwich is to make only one at a time and give it my full attention.
1. How did the writer react to the sandwich with burned side?| A．She ate it with some complaints |
| B．She showed no interest. |
| C．She thought it was still perfect |
| D．She was deeply impressed with it |
| A．Even simple things deserve full attention |
| B．Losing focus makes the sandwich burned |
| C．Self-made sandwiches are always burned |
| D．we should make only one sandwich at a time |
| A．Everything cannot be done well without full attention |
| B．Moms always like to lie to kids when they have done something wrong |
| C．We can lose focus more easily when we do easy things. |
| D．Multi-tasking can be an obstacle to the achievement of tasks. |
| A．Nothing is perfect |
| B．Learn to appreciate the burned sandwiches |
| C．Devote yourself to one thing at a time. |
| D．Never do multi-tasks |
【推荐3】Home on the Way
People need homes: Children assume their parents’ place as home; boarders call school “home” on weekdays; married couples work together to build new homes; and travelers—have no place to call “home”, at least for a few nights.
Some regular travelers take their own belongings like bed sheets, pillowcases and family photos to make them feel like home no matter where they are; some stay for long periods in the same hotel and as a result become very familiar with the service and attendants;
And how about keeping relationships while in transit?
Nowadays, fewer people are working in their local towns, so how do they develop a sense of belonging? Whenever we step out of our local boundaries, there is always another “home” waiting to be found.
| A．Hostels provide a clean and safe place to stay while you are traveling the world. |
| B．others may simply put some flowers by the hotel window to make things more homely |
| C．Backpackers in youth hostels may become good friends, even closer than siblings（兄弟姐妹）. |
| D．So how about people who have to travel for extended periods of time? |
| E．No matter where you go to in the world, hotels are there, too. |
| F．Some keep contact with their friends via the Internet. |
| G．Wherever we are, with just a little bit of effort and imagination |
【推荐1】When I was 16 years old and in foster care(寄养中心)in Tennessee,I wanted a family very much.I asked for the help of a judge,even the commissioner of the Department of Children’s Services,and was adopted(收养)just a week before my 18th birthday.
We have a lot to be grateful for and this holiday season let’s not forget about the more than 415,000 youth in foster care especially older youth These youth are the most likely to get overlooked(忽视)for adoption,but they shouldn’t be.They need and deserve a family just as much as young children do.Making an older youth a part of your family can bring just as much a joy as adopting a baby or a younger child.
My adoption was life changing and probably the best thing that ever happened to me.I still remember the first gift my parents gave to me.It was a Mickey Mouse key chain with a key to their home.They told me that no matter what happened they would always love me and I’d always have a place to come home to.This is our 17th Thanksgiving together...
My first Thanksgiving with my family was a little overwhelming(难以应付的)with lots of extended family including grandparents,aunts,uncles,and cousins.However,It’s when I realized that I would never have to spend another holiday alone and that was truly an amazing feeling.
I was always eager to spend time with my little sister,Beth.She was six when I joined the family.My dad always says he knew we were really sisters,and I was no longer a guest in the house when Beth and I had our first fight.Today,she’s one of my best friends,and I’m her biggest cheerleader.
There were also bittersweet Thanksgivings.One we spent in my mom’s hospital room.It was there that she helped me plan my wedding but passed away three weeks before the ceremony.My dad walked me down the aisle,and my sister was my maid of honor.Because of our bond,we were able to support each other through thatchallenging time and that’s what family is for the good and bad times.
It’s nice having my dad and sister to share holidays and special occasions.But they’re even more important when it comes to the little things-like having someone to share my bad day with,celebrate my achievements at work,or help me think through a difficult decision.It’s in these moments that I just can’t imagine being alone in the world.
I’m so glad that I didn’t listen to those people who said I’d never find a family,and that I was putting myself out there for rejection(拒绝接受).It’s a risk for older foster youth to consider adoption.It’s an opportunity to be rejected once again.But it’s a risk they should take because life doesn’t end at 18.It’s really just beginning.
If you know someone who might consider adopting an older teen,please share my story-and have him or her think of my family.They didn’t get to see my first steps.But they taught me so many things about life,and were there to watch me walk across the stage when I graduated from college and law school and accompanied(陪伴)me to the White House last year as I was honored for my work helping foster youth.
I look forward to many more Thanksgivings with my family,and I’m thankful they chose me to be a part of their family.
1. What can we learn from the author’s personal experiences?| A．It’s rather difficult for older youth to be adopted. |
| B．Older youth bring less joy than babies. |
| C．It’s unforgettable to have bittersweet Thanksgivings. |
| D．An older youth aged 18 is too old to need a family. |
| A．The family’s giving her a Mickey Mouse as a gift. |
| B．The family’s always sharing happiness and sorrow with her. |
| C．Her mother’s failing to attend her wedding. |
| D．Spending Thanksgiving with her extended family for years. |
| A．not living alone any longer |
| B．being taken good care of by others |
| C．being successful in career |
| D．being loved and accepted |
| A．To express her love for her family. |
| B．To feel sorry for the unadoptable older youth. |
| C．To ask more people to adopt the older youth. |
| D．To tell the readers not to blindly believe others. |
【推荐2】I became a magician by accident. When I was nine years old, I learned how to make a coin disappear. I’d read The Lord of the Rings and gone into the adult section of the library to be buried in fantasy literature but young enough to still hold out hope that you might find a book of real, actual magic in the library. The book I found taught basic techniques, and I tried to practice.
At first the magic wasn’t any good. It was just a trick — a bad trick. I spent hours each day running through the secret moves in front of the mirror. I dropped the coin over and over, a thousand times in a day, and after two weeks my mom got a carpet and placed it under the mirror to muffle (消音) the sound of the coin falling again and again.
One day I made the coin disappear on the playground. We had been playing football and were standing in the field behind the school. A dozen people were watching. I showed the coin to everyone. Then it disappeared. The kids screamed.
A few years later, I staged an underwater escape in the river that flowed through the middle of the campus of the University of Iowa, where I went to school. I stood on a boat in the middle of the river wearing nothing but hiking shorts. The sky was dead and gray, and the water was cold at the surface, and colder in the depths below.
Technically, I succeeded. I jumped into the water, sank to the bottom, and escaped from the locks and chains before swimming to the surface. But it didn’t feel like a success.
1. Why did the author’s mother bring a carpet home?| A．To encourage him to clean the house. |
| B．To make the sounds less noisy than before. |
| C．To have guests clean their shoes on entering the house. |
| D．To decrease the number of cleaning the house. |
| A．By playing football with them. | B．By making the showed coin disappear. |
| C．By praictising his techniques more frequently. | D．By providing hands-on practice. |
| A．The Magic Trick that Changed My Life. | B．A Nineteen-year-old Magician |
| C．What Can Give You a Magic Life. | D．A Brief Introduction to a Magician’s Life |
【推荐3】Sadaf’s childhood was happy. She enjoyed going to school and meeting her friends. But one day, she returned home running a high temperature.
“We thought it was regular flu. But we were told that I would not be able to walk ever again now,” she recalls.
Sadaf was just 10 years old then. After the family was turned down by doctors in Kashmir, they went to Mumbai, where an operation was performed to treat her legs. But eventually, Sadaf had to rely on a wheelchair to move around. By this time, she had to discontinue her education.
Things worsened when her father, her “only source of support”, passed away. “Everyone except my father doubted my capabilities. But he always encouraged me to dream big. I missed him.”
“There were days when I would end up crying all day, sitting alone in my room. I was getting into depression,” she says.
“By now, I’ve realized that I have to either end my life or struggle to prove myself. I chose the latter. I wanted to prove to the world that people like me can also achieve something. I had just lost my ability to walk, not my ability to use my brain,” she adds.
That is when Sadaf decided to step up for herself. In 2015, she opened a shop but had to shut it a couple of years later as the work affected her eyesight. She says, “But I wanted to try my hands at everything. So I decided to play basketball as well. I have also been awarded multiple times by the Jammu and Kashmir Basketball Association.”
Recently, Sadaf tried selling unique spices of the Kashmir valley. “Today, I have established my own business without anyone’s emotional or financial support. People would question me what I could achieve sitting in a wheelchair, when their educated and able-bodied children sat idly (闲散地). Now the very same people give my example to others,” she says.
Sadaf believes that people with disabilities should never doubt themselves. “If you hear others say something not so positive, you may end up depressed. Instead of living within the confines (限制) of a room, try to prove yourself,” she advises.
1. What did Sadaf lose after her father’s death?| A．Walking ability. | B．Financial support. |
| C．Spiritual backing. | D．Precious eyesight. |
| A．To build up her body. | B．To prove herself. |
| C．To win awards. | D．To pursue her dream. |
| A．Talented but inflexible. | B．Disabled but learned. |
| C．Independent and honest. | D．Determined and capable. |
| A．A fine example has limitless power. | B．Do not let your disability rule you. |
| C．Encouragement is the source of power. | D．Do not put all your eggs in one basket. |
【推荐1】WHERE TO EAT
As Garzas
011-34-981-721-765
The food is equal to the views at this Michelin-starred restaurant serving traditional Galician food right on the Lighthouse Way. Open Tuesday through Sunday, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. for lunch and 9 to 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday for dinner. Reservations only taken by phone. 7-course tasting menu costs $56; the 13-course one is $90.
Mar de Ardora
011-34-981-754-311
Reserve a table looking out at Carballa Beach in this stone-house-turned-into restaurant. The menu features (以…为特色) fresh-caught local seafood. Entrees (主菜) from $18.
Bar Playa Lires
011-34-664-57-70-85
Casual lunch and dinner spot near Lires Beach that offers typical Spanish food, local seafood and great sunset views. Open 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Entrees from $17.
O semafORO restaurant
011-34-981-110-210
Upscale (高档的) dining featuring locally caught seafood in a historic building. Entrees from $30. The restaurant offers mainly fish and other seafood from the local fish markets, which were caught using traditional methods of fishing by fishermen, who live off the sea and who want to live on it for many more years.
1. Which number should you call if you want to book a seat in Michelin-starred restaurant?| A．011-34-981-721-765. | B．011-34-981-754-311. |
| C．011-34-664-57-70-85. | D．011-34-981-110-210. |
| A．$17. | B．$18. | C．$30. | D．$56. |
| A．It is cooked by fishermen. |
| B．It is caught in an eco-friendly way. |
| C．It is of high quality but low in price. |
| D．It is imported from foreign countries. |
【推荐2】Harsukh Bhai Dobariya, of Gujarat, India, is very popular with birds. Every day, about 3,000 birds visit his 4-acre farm to eat tasty grains and build their nests away from natural enemies. Nicknamed “The Birdman”, Harsukh has spent the last 17 years of his life looking after the birds and transforming his land into a safe place for them.
Many people would consider such a large number of birds making a mess outside their windows, but Harsukh couldn’t be happier about it. As more birds started visiting him and the limited space on his balcony became a problem, he built a stand（台）out of old pipes and put grains on them, so the birds could eat in comfort.
Harsukh and his family used to live in the middle of the city, but as the number of birds visiting them increased, they became a conundrum for the neighbors. In 2012, Harsukh moved to a 4-acre piece of land on the suburbs（郊区）, where the birds didn’t bother anyone.
“In my old house, neighbors would get disturbed by the constant chirping（鸣叫声）of birds,” Harsukh said. “Though they would never complain, I still thought that these birds need a space of their own.”
Today, about 3,000 birds visit Harsukh’s farm several times a day. He and his family have built several stands for them, and make sure to add grains twice a day.
Over 1,000 birds build their nests on the farm, and have their babies here. Harsukh and his family protect them from enemies until they are ready to fly. During the rainy season, the doors of the Harsukh’s house are always open to birds that are seeking shelter from the rain.
1. What can we infer about the outside of Harsukh’s window?| A．It’s quiet. | B．It’s dirty. |
| C．It’s interesting. | D．It’s beautiful. |
| A．sight | B．business |
| C．pleasure | D．problem |
| A．It was too crowded for so many birds. |
| B．It was convenient for birds to get food. |
| C．He needed a special place to feed birds. |
| D．His neighbors complained about the bird noises. |
| A．He protects their young birds. | B．He kills their natural enemies. |
| C．He builds nests for them. | D．He treats the sick birds. |
【推荐3】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.
1. Which of the following statement is not the main things the epidemic has caused?| A．Cities are locked down. |
| B．Borders are closed. |
| C．Borders is becoming more open to fight against it. |
| D．“Open science”plays an important role. |
a. A research team from Fudan University placed the sequences of the virus onto an open access data platform.
b. Companies across the globe share their developed vaccine.
c. Major drug companies share their study results.
d. US company Gilead Sciences developed drugs to treat Ebola.
| A．ab | B．ac | C．bc | D．cd |
| A．The research process could be delayed and the chance of defeating the virus would be lessened. |
| B．They could let the world download the information for free. |
| C．The world could develop the vaccine more quicker than now. |
| D．Chinese scientists could work to help the world. |
