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Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. politely B. deserving C. strengthened D. hospitalization E. cases
F. under-resourced G. unsurprising H. possibly I. reaching J. readopted K. unsustainable

Too many people believe that the pandemic is over, England’s deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, warned this week: far from it. Europe is at its centre again, WHO has said, urging governments to continue with public health measures. But though Sajid Javid, England’s health secretary, predicted last month that 1 here could hit 100,000 a day, he remains unwilling to take action — even as the latest Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission (React) findings, for late October, show that about one in 58 people is tested positive — more than double September’s levels.

The indifference of Mr Javid and his boss, Boris Johnson, is 2 , given the government’s record. (Last month’s news report on its response stressed that it had “lacked speed in making timely decisions”: if put less 3 , it was far too late, far too often). But their attitude is doubtlessly 4 by a drop in recorded cases over the past week. Some experts think the drop may have to do with the growing immunity caused by high infection rates.

While vaccines (疫苗) (and now treatments) are decreasing 5 rates, current infection levels and breakthrough cases remind us that vaccines do not stop people from catching or spreading Covid, and reduce but do not eliminate the possibility of serious health problems such as long Covid.

The government is counting on boosters (疫苗加强剂), though it says its “plan B” — forced masking, vaccine passports and encouragement to work from home — will be introduced if the pressure on the National Health Service (NHS) is 6 . The British Medical Association believe that point arrived weeks ago. Queues of ambulances are the most visible indication of the pressures. The NHS went into the pandemic 7 and, more obviously at the current stage, short-staffed. The overall impact has been exhausting. Any further increase in Covid patients, already 8 more than 9,500, would greatly weaken the ability to deal with the huge backlog (积压的工作).

Why take that risk? Forced masking on public transport and in places such as supermarkets must be 9 . The government should introduce Covid passports for crowded venues. Third doses (针剂) must be made more accessible. Adopting these minimal measures now would save lives and protect the NHS, 10 preventing the need for more drastic action later.

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【推荐1】Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. potential B. coupled C. coincidence D. blocks E. regulatory F. urgency
G. prevent H. launch I. approved J. emphasized K. devoted

A single case study isn’t enough to prove anything. It’s not clear if the medication, called remdesivir(瑞德西韦), actually helped the patient, or if his improvement was a(n) 1 . But it’s one of a few drugs, including a combination of anti-HIV drugs, that doctors think might help patients with the new coronavirus(冠状病毒).

Remdesivir was developed by the pharmaceutical company Gilead as a treatment for Ebola. It’s a broad-spectrum antiviral drug, and it 2 the activity of a protein that helps coronaviruses make copies of themselves. Research groups identified the drug as a(n) 3 candidate for the treatment of coronaviruses in the aftermath of the 2012 MERS outbreak, when another new coronavirus spread through the Middle East. In cell models, it blocks the activity of MERS, SARS (a 2002 coronavirus), and other coronaviruses that are found in bats.

Tests on the new coronavirus show that remdesivir blocks its activity, too, at least in the lab. That result, 4 with the positive outcomes in the Washington patient, were enough for Gilead to 5 a larger clinical trial of the drug in new coronavirus patients. The company will test it in a group of 270 patients at China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing — one group will be given the drug, and one group will be given a placebo.

The drug isn’t 6 by the Food and Drug Administration or by any other 7 body. However, it already went through safety testing during the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and 2015. That’s why Gilead is able to test it in sick patients immediately.

The importance of those previous studies was 8 by Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in a press conference last week. Researchers aren’t starting from zero because work over the past two decades tested drugs in cells, animals, and individual patients. Now, researchers who have 9 their professional lives to this work face new 10 around the most important question: if the drugs actually work in people. “There’s no proven therapy for coronavirus infections,” Fauci said.

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G. grief	H. isolation	I. locked	J. popularized	K. revolutionary

Welcome to the YOLO Economy

Something strange is happening to the exhausted, type-A millennial workers of America. After a year spent hunched (弯腰驼背) over their MacBooks, 1 back-to-back Zooms, they are deciding to risk it all. Some are 2 stable jobs to start a new business, and others are stepping off the career treadmill altogether.

If this movement has a rallying cry, it’s “YOLO”—“you only live once,” an acronym (首字母缩略词) 3 by the rapper Drake a decade ago and used by cheerful risk-takers ever since. It has come to characterize the attitude that has 4 a certain type of bored office worker in recent months.

To be clear: The pandemic is not over, and millions of Americans are still experiencing 5 for the loss of jobs and loved ones. Not everyone can afford to throw 6 to the wind. But for a growing number of people with financial cushions and in-demand skills, the dread and anxiety of the past year are giving way to a new kind of professional fearlessness.

“It feels like we’ve been so 7 into careers for the past decade, and this is our opportunity to switch it up.” said Nate Moseley, 29, a buyer at a major clothing retailer. “The idea of going right back to the pre-Covid setup sounds so unappealing after this past year,” he said. “If not now, when will I ever do this?” If “languishing (受煎熬)” is 2021’s 8 emotion, YOLOing may be the year’s defining work force trend. A recent Microsoft survey found that more than 40 percent of workers globally were considering leaving their jobs this year.

9 of employees’ quitting jobs, bosses are trying to boost morale (士气) and prevent burnout. LinkedIn recently gave the majority of its employees a paid week off.

Raises and time off may persuade some employees to stay put. But for others, stasis (停滞) is the problem, and the only solution is 10 change.

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A. adapt B. challenging C. points D. infection E. vulnerable F. optimistic
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When Will Life Return to Normal?

If 2020 felt hellish, be warned that we aren’t out of the fire yet, even if we are moving in the right direction. Welcome to 2021, aka purgatory.

There is little doubt that vaccines hold the key to ending the pandemic. A recent modeling study predicted that vaccinating just 40 per cent of US adults over the course of 2021 would reduce the coronavirus 1 rate by around 75 per cent and cut hospitalizations and deaths from covid-19 by more than 80 per cent.

But all this is still some way off. In the meantime, we will have to 2 to a middle ground where some people are protected but not others. As Adam Kleczkowski, a mathematical biologist at the University of Strathclyde UK, 3 out, supplies of the various vaccines are limited, distributing them is 4 , immunity takes a few weeks to develop and the protection they offer isn’t 100 percent.

In the northern hemisphere, he says, the most likely scenario is a third wave of covid-19 in the new year, requiring further lockdowns and 5 for up to five months. “ Realistically we’re in for a longer ride than we hope for.” he says.

Tim Spector at King’s College London, who leads the Covid-9 Symptom Study in the UK, also predicts a third wave. But if lots of healthcare workers and 6 people have been vaccinated, the mortality rate will be lower and the pressure on the healthcare system 7 , he said at a recent Royal Society of Medicine seminar.

The upsides of ever-widening vaccination will kick in around April. He said, “I’m 8 that if we can just get our mental state together until Easter, we can hang on in there.”

There are still many things we don’t understand about this virus, however, and we may well be in for some surprises in the coming year that throw that trajectory（轨）off course. As this magazine went to press, for example, there was widespread speculation about the 9 of a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus circulating in the UK that may be more highly 10 .

In Australia, the goal will be to keep the virus from resurging as the summer fades into autumn, says epidemiologist Catherine Bennett at Deakin University in Melbourne. A recent outbreak in Sydney has led to new restrictions.

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