A temporary hospital has been set up by members of the California National Guard in Indio, California, in the US.
Feng Bangli, a resident of Wuhan, Hubei, began to have a fever at the end of January and suspected that he had been infected (感染) with the virus. He tried several times to be admitted to a hospital but failed. He eventually gave up and stayed at home, taking drugs prescribed (开药方) by doctors.
At that time, “too many patients were waiting to see doctors at every hospital, and it was not possible for me to get a bed,” said Feng. Days later, with the community staff’s help, Feng tested positive for COVID-19 and was sent to a makeshift hospital (临时医院) for treatment.
“Without such makeshift hospitals, many COVID-19 patients like me may never have found a bed,” said Feng, who recovered and was discharged (获准离开) from the makeshift hospital in Wuchang district at the end of February after staying there for 12 days.
Like Feng, more than 12,000 COVID-19 patients in Wuhan received treatment and care at 15 makeshift hospitals, which were converted (改造) from exhibition halls, sports stadiums and warehouses (仓库). These hospitals, which mainly received patients with mild symptoms (轻症), contained one in every four confirmed COVID-19 patients in the city, said Ma Xiaowei, minister of China’s National Health Commission.
“Building makeshift hospitals was a key decision made in the critical (关键的) moment when Wuhan was facing a formidable task of epidemic (疫情) control, and it has played an indispensable (不可获缺的) role in both prevention and treatment of the disease,” he said.
Makeshift hospitals have greatly eased pressure on designated (指定的) hospitals to receive and treat patients, which made it possible to treat and isolate (隔离) all people in need, said Xu Junmei, vice-president of Wuchang makeshift hospital. “They were the life vessels (生命之舟) during the peak of the epidemic.”
Makeshift hospitals have now been embraced (接受) in other countries. Eight makeshift hospitals are being built in Tehran, Iran, to fight against the virus. The one converted from the Iran Mall, the largest shopping mall in the country, is expected to have a total of 3,000 beds, according to People’s Daily.
On March 29, New York converted a grassy meadow (草坪) in Central Park into a makeshift hospital, where it will provide 68 hospital beds.
“Considering the ways we can increase hospital capacity right now is incredibly important,” Dr Andrew Ibrahim, a surgeon at the University of Michigan told Architecture. “If hospitals do become overwhelmed (压垮的), and new facilities (设施) need to be built.”
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并将其标号填入题前括号内。
1. What point does the writer make by using Feng Bangli’s example?
| A．COVID-19 has infected a large number of people in a very short time. |
| B．Hospitals should always be prepared for any unexpected situations. |
| C．The COVID-19 outbreak happened suddenly without the slightest warning. |
| D．Makeshift hospitals have played an important role in the fight against COVID-19. |
| A．new | B．basic | C．difficult | D．strange |
| A．it has greatly eased pressure on designated (指定的) hospitals to receive and treat patients. |
| B．it was needed for receiving and treating patients. |
| C．Wuhan has a poor medical system. |
| D．the designated (指定的) hospitals became overwhelmed |
| A．They wasted resources. | B．They were greatly helpful. |
| C．They were not practical. | D．They would not be as useful as China’s. |
| A．To praise China’s quick response to the COVID-19 outbreak. |
| B．To call on other countries to copy China’s method of fighting the virus. |
| C．To show the value of building temporary hospitals to fight COVID-19. |
| D．To compare the measures different countries have taken to deal with |
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【推荐1】News Review
APEC Blue People in Beijing got the saying after the APEC meeting in Beijing. It refers to the clear blue sky during the meeting. To get such a blue sky, many factories in Beijing and nearby cities stopped work, and the number of the cars on the road was cut.
A Warning Ticket A 24-yearold woman in Nanjing was given a warning ticket for eating food on the subway. Eating is not allowed on the Nanjing subway. Up to now, 2,698 people have been punished because of their eating, smoking or selling goods on the subway.
A Teacherfree Exam Recently, students at Ningbo Huamao Foreign Language School in Zhejiang took their midterm exam—a teacherfree exam. After handing out the exam papers, the teacher left the classrooms, leaving the students to take the exam without being watched. They only came back to collect the papers at the end.
A Tomato Fight Do you want a tomato shower? Come to the “tomato fight” in Spain! Once every year, people in the town of Bunol throw tomatoes at each other. Don't worry. It's not a real fight. People do this only for fun.
1. APEC Blue refers to ________ in Beijing during the APEC meeting.| A．the factories | B．the clear blue sky |
| C．the people | D．the cars on the road |
| A．drinking | B．smoking | C．eating food | D．selling goods |
| A．at the end of the term | B．outside the classroom |
| C．without giving answers | D．without being watched |
| A．to have fun | B．to enjoy dinner |
| C．to take a shower | D．to start a fight |
| A．a book | B．a novel | C．newspapers | D．an ad |
【推荐2】＂I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning and I surf the net.＂
＂I often check my e-mail forty times a day.＂
＂I often spend more than three hours during one time on the net.＂
＂I spend more time in chat rooms than with my ‘real-1ife’ friends.＂
Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction(瘾) called Internet addiction. Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like drug use. People lose control of the time they spend on the Internet
For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried, and they called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the net for several days straight.
Studies show that about 6 to 10% of Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the teens because the Internet is changing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family.
Is ＂surfing the net＂ a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms(症状):
●You do not go to important family activities or you do not do school work because you like to spend hours on the Internet.
●You can’t wait for your next online time.
●You plan to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours.
●You go out with your friends less and less.
1. What does the beginning of the passage tell us?
| A．What an Internet addict usually does. |
| B．How to become an Internet addict. |
| C．Where to find an Internet addict. |
| D．Why to write this passage. |
| A．It is something like keeping drugs. |
| B．It is a way of producing drugs. |
| C．It is like taking drugs. |
| D．It is terrible to imagine. |
| A．The teens are wasting too much money. |
| B．More and more of the teens wil1 become addicted to the Internet. |
| C．The playing field of the teens will disappear. |
| D．They used to work on the Internet. |
| A．Internet problems are more serious among college students |
| B．Internet addicts usually stay in the computer lab without sleep |
| C．Some of the Internet users have already been seriously addicted |
| D．The police often help to find those Internet addicts. |
| A．Don’t be addicted to the Internet. |
| B．Go to family activities more often. |
| C．Do things as you have planned. |
| D．Stay with your parents as often as possible. |
Here is some interesting information about mobile use.
How fast is mobile Internet growing?
By 2014, mobile Internet should take over computer Internet use .It is predicted that mobile Internet users will be much more than computer Internet users.
How much do people use their mobile phones?
On average, Americans spend 2.7 hours per day on their mobile phones .That’s over twice the amount of time they spend eating and over 1/3 of the time they spend sleeping each day.
What do people use their mobile phones for?
Games 61﹪ Weather 55﹪ Maps /search 50﹪ Social Networking 49﹪
Music 42﹪ News 36﹪ Entertainment 33﹪ Dining 25﹪ Video 21﹪
1. According to the passage ,the first thing you look for is when you get up.
| A．computers | B．televisions | C．mobiles | D．Internets |
| A．超过 | B．改变 | C．提高 | D．消灭 |
| A．reading news | B．playing games |
| C．enjoying music | D．watching videos |
| A．Mobile users are very rich |
| B．Mobiles are rather popular in people’s life now |
| C．Mobiles are very useful and expensive |
| D．Mobile users have their ID card in their mobiles |
| A．some interesting information about mobile use |
| B．how many people are using mobile phones? |
| C．what kind of mobile phones are being used by people |
| D．what people use their mobile phone for |
【推荐1】“Five, four, three, two, one, blast off.” At 0:23 on October16, 2021, China launched the manned spaceship Shenzhou-13, sending three astronauts to its Tiangong space station. About 6.5 hours after the launch, the spaceship successfully docked (对接) with the Tianhe core module of the station.
The three-person team is the second crew (工作组) to have entered Tiangong. The team is led by China’s first space walker Zhai Zhigang. The other two astronauts are Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu. They will live and work together at the station for six months. This will be China’s longest-ever manned mission.
During their six-month stay, the crew will carry out a number of tasks. For example, they will do two to three spacewalks to fix equipment in preparation for future construction work. Wang Yaping, the first Chinese woman to perform spacewalk, said “Apart from the tasks, we also hope to do more space science education. This will bring space closer to the general public. As a result, they will learn more about the astronauts’ life in space.”
Shenzhou-13 was China’s last major space mission in 2021. Another six missions are planned for this year to finish the construction of the space station. Once its completed, Tiangong will be about one-fifth the size of the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS will reach the end of its life in 2024. Tiangong is likely to be the only operational near-Earth orbit (近地轨道) space station by then. China looks forward to hosting astronauts from other countries.
Denis Simon, at Duke Law in the US, told Xinhua that China’s success in space continues to be impressive (令人赞叹的). “It is now well on its way to being a leader in space exploration.” he said.
1. Shenzhou-13 will probably return to the earth in ________.| A．March, 2022 | B．April, 2022. | C．March, 2024. | D．April, 2024. |
| A．The crew have entered Tiangong twice. |
| B．The construction of Tiangong will be finished in 6 months. |
| C．The size of Tiangong will be 25% of ISS in 2024 |
| D．Tiangong will welcome foreign astronauts in the future. |
| A．It took Shenzhou-13 6.5 days to dock with the Tianhe core module. |
| B．Wang Yaping was the first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk. |
| C．This space trip will be China’s shortest- ever crewed mission. |
| D．Shenzhou-13 was the first major space mission in 2021. |
| A．show China’s achievements in space field |
| B．introduce the missions of Shenzhou-13 |
| C．explain the success of launching Shenzhou-13 |
| D．describe the importance of Tiangong space station |
【推荐2】For thousands of years, humans have explored (探索) the Earth. Nowadays, we are exploring space. Astronomers (天文学家) are the modern-day explorers. Now, many astronomers are looking for new planets and new places for humans to live in the future. But where do astronomers start exploring?
First of all, astronomers look for a star. That’s because our own Earth moves around a star —the Sun. More importantly, it is neither too far from nor too near to the Sun for heat and light. So when astronomers have found the star, they look at the planets around it. In recent years, astronomers have found nearly 400 new planets with stars. However, many of these planets are either too near to the star or too far away.
However, if the planet is in good place, astronomers look for three key things: water, air and rock. Water is important because all life needs water. Humans can drink it and they can also grow plants with water. And plants produce air for humans to breathe and food to eat. Rock on a planet is also important. That’s because there is often water under the rock.
After many years of exploring, astronomers have found a planet like the Earth. It’s Gliese 581g and it’s near a star. The astronomers think it has water and rock and the temperature is between -31℃ and -12℃. That’s cold, but not colder than Antarctica or the Arctic Circle, for example, Gliese 581g is bigger than the Earth. A year on Gliese 581g is only 37 Earth days, not 365 Earth days. But astronomers do not think these are big differences and some of them think Gliese 581g will be a new Earth. However, Gliese 581g is twenty light years from the Earth.
1. How do astronomers discover a new planet for humans to live on? Choose the right order.a. Astronomers look for three key things.
b. Astronomers look for and find a right star.
c. Astronomers look at the planets around the star.
| A．a-b-c. | B．b-a-c. | C．b-c-a. | D．c-a-b. |
| A．Water. | B．Air. | C．Rock. | D．Plants. |
| A．Gliese 581g is a star, and bigger than the Earth. |
| B．A year on Gliese 581g is shorter than that on the Earth. |
| C．It will take humans twenty years to get to Gliese 581g. |
| D．It is colder on Gliese 581g than Antarctica or the Arctic Circle on the earth. |
| A．Water, air and rock are important. | B．Gliese 581g is already a new Earth. |
| C．There are some planets like our Earth. | D．Astronomers are looking for a new Earth. |
Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. They mainly live on bamboo, and each panda needs to eat a lot of bamboo every day. The area of bamboo is becoming smaller for many different reasons, so pandas have less and less land to live on. Pandas don’t have many babies, and baby pandas often die. The situation is becoming very serious.
Our government is working hard to save pandas. There are more than 30 nature reserves to protect pandas but these are not enough. The government has made a new plan to help pandas. The nature reserves will be bigger and the bamboo will grow better. Then the pandas will have enough food to eat and enough places to live in. Pandas born in the zoos may go back to live in the nature reserves.
Most people love pandas. The panda is one of the best-known animals in the world. It is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature. The WWF works to protect all animals in danger, so the panda has become the symbol of all animals in danger. There is still a long way to go to save the panda. Think of other animals in danger such as tigers ,whales, turtles and elephant—we need to save the panda, and we need to save them, too.
1. Paragraph 2 is mainly about________.
| A．why pandas are in danger |
| B．why baby pandas often die |
| C．how to protect all animals |
| D．how to plant more bamboo |
| A．to build more zoos |
| B．to send more scientists |
| C．to make bigger nature reserves |
| D．to ask the WWF to work in China. |
| A．The tiger | B．The panda | C．The elephant | D．The whale |
【推荐1】Here is an MTR system map. It may be very useful when people have a trip to Hong Kong. Please read it carefully and help the students from Beijing Sunshine Middle School solve their problems.
1. Sandy is at Hung Hom. She wants to go to Kowloon. She should change lines at ______.
| A．Nam Cheong | B．East Tsim Sha Tsui |
| C．Mei Foo | D．Lai King |
| A．sixth | B．seventh | C．eighth | D．ninth |
| A．Island Line——Tsuen Wan Line——Tung Chung Line |
| B．Disneyland Resort Line——Tung Chung Line——Tsuen Wan Line |
| C．Tsuen Wan Line——Tung Chung Line——Disneyland Resort Line |
| D．Tsuen Wan Line——Tung Chung Line——West Rail Line——Disneyland Resort Line |
Near the farm gate, there was a large hole in the road. This road was always full of water, and the drivers of the cars could not see how deep the hole was. They thought it was not deep.
Then when they drove into the hole, they could not drive out because it was too deep.
The farmer did not spend much time working on his farm. He spent most of it watching the hole.
When a car drove into it, he pulled the car out with his tractor(拖拉机) and the driver gave him a lot of money for doing this.
One day, the driver of a car said to him, “You must make a lot of money by pulling cars out of this hole night and day.”
“Oh, no,” the farmer said. “I don’t pull cars out of the hole at night. At night I fill(填) the hole with water.”
1. Many cars went into the hole because the drivers ________.
| A．were going too fast to stop | B．did not see the hole |
| C．did not know the hole was very deep | D．liked driving through water |
| A．pulled cars out of the hole in the road | B．filled the hole with water |
| C．laughed at the drivers of the cars | D．worked on his farm |
| A．giving things | B．selling water |
| C．pulling cars out of the hole | D．filling the hole with water |
| A．How to make money | B．A helpful farmer |
| C．To drive more carefully | D．The hole in the road |
【推荐3】Losing something important can be a very anxious experience. If someone finds it and returns it to you, it is often a great relief. Authorities in Guangzhou have created a new regulation (规定) to encourage more people to return lost items.
The regulation says that people who hand in lost belongings will get 10 percent of the item’s value as a reward from public security authorities (公安部门). If the owner can’t be found, the finder will still be rewarded with 10 percent of the item’s value after it is sold at a public auction (拍卖). The rewards will come from government funding.
The regulation has caused heated public debate. Opponents say that it will rob the act of its nobility (高尚), adding that such good behavior should be done out of selflessness, Qianjiang Evening News reported.
However, there are also people who welcome the regulation, saying it will encourage more people to do the right thing, Beijing Daily reported. After all, not everybody is willing to return lost property (财物) to its owner. Finders will have to take care of lost items and spend time looking for their owners. The regulation gives finders the right to ask for a reward, which is in the best interest of both parties.
Countries like Japan and Germany already have similar laws. According to Japan’s Lost Goods Law, people who find a lost item should quickly return it to the owner or turn it over to the police. The owner should provide the finder with a reward of 5 to 20 percent of the item’s value.
1. According to the new regulation, how much can a finder get after returning a lost item?| A．5 percent of the item’s value. | B．10 percent of the item’s value. |
| C．15 percent of the item’s value. | D．20 percent of the item’s value. |
| A．How opinions are divided on the regulation. |
| B．Who is likely to support the regulation. |
| C．How finders can get a reward. |
| D．Why the regulation is necessary. |
| A．China is not the first country to reward finders of lost items. |
| B．Finders will be punished for not returning lost items. |
| C．The reward will come from the owner of the lost item. |
| D．The new regulation shows that people are selfish. |
| A．Regulation on getting paid | B．Returned property |
| C．Selfless behavior | D．Get paid to do good |
【推荐1】Today people can use the phone to talk with others almost anywhere on earth. But when you use the phone, you don’t see the person you are talking with. That may change in the future.
Now some people are using a kind of telephone called the picture phone or vision phone. With it, two people who are talking can see each other.
Picture phones can be used when you have something to show to the person you are calling. They may have other uses in the future. One day you may be able to ring up a library and ask to see a book. Then you’ll be able to read the book right over your picture phone. Or you may be able to go shopping through your picture phone. If you see something in the newspaper that you want to buy, you’ll use your phone and call the shop. People at the shop will show you the thing you are interested in right over the phone. You’ll be able to shop all over the city and never even leave your room!
1. Today people can use the phone to talk with others ____________.| A．in all villages | B．in some places in the world |
| C．only in big cities | D．almost anywhere on the earth |
| A．write a book | B．do shopping | C．play games | D．have glasses |
| A．useful | B．impossible | C．bad | D．necessary |
| A．Reading on the telephone | B．Shopping on the phone |
| C．Picture phones | D．Talking on the phone |
As the host city of the next Winter Games, Beijing held a wonderful eight-minutes show at the closing ceremony of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Sunday, sending a warm invitation to the whole world.
The show was directed by Zhang Yimou, a famous Chinese director who was also responsible for the eight-minute summer handover in Athens in 2004 as well as the opening and closing ceremonies in Beijing in 2008 that had a big success in the world.
Unlike Athens which focused on showing Chinese history with traditional culture like red lantern and Jasmine（茉莉花）, “Beijing 8 Minutes” gave special importance to the Chinese people’s sincere（诚挚的）welcome to the world by using modern technology.
Leading the team were two dancers in costurnes（服装）of panda puppets that are the world’s largest but the lightest at the same time, each weighing only about 10 kilograms. To reduce the pressure on the two dancers, researchers had tried hundreds of different material until ending up with high technology ones.
During the whole performance, the dancers and robots both wore LED lights on them that could be fit for the cold weather at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium without the risk. The costurnes were also made with a kind of special material to keep the dancers warm.
Performers danced with 24 intelligent robots standing for Beijing hosting the 24th Winter Olympics. They showed scenes of sports such as skating and skiing.
Pictures were projected to the icy floor while dancers skated across it, masking a sense of augmented reality（增强现实）. A number of moving screens in the middle of the field were also controlled by artificial intelligence（人工智能）.
1. will host the 24th Winter Olympics.| A．Pyeongchang | B．Athens | C．Beijing | D．Sydney |
| A．carry forward the spirit of sports |
| B．show advanced science and technology in China |
| C．improve our living standard |
| D．spread Chinese traditional culture |
| A．木偶 | B．模特 | C．机器人 | D．克隆 |
| A．red lantern and Jasmine | B．sport suits |
| C．LED lights | D．moving screens |
| A．Athens 8 Minutes | B．Beijing 8 Minutes |
| C．2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics | D．2018 Beijing Winter Olympics |
【推荐3】Do you know there is a connection between music and language? You may not believe it. But recent studies give us the answer: Music can improve certain language abilities in the brain. Now, let's look at two examples.
Recently, researcher Kris has done a research which shows that playing a musical instrument can improve a person's hearing ability. In his study, he divided the people into two groups. The people in the first group were musicians, while those in the other group had no musical training. He asked these people to listen to a person talking in a noisy room. As a result, the musicians were able to hear the talking person more clearly.
You may wonder why. The answer is that musicians can hear better because they learn to pay attention to certain sounds. Think about violinists. When they play with the group, they hear their own instrument and many others’ too. But they must listen closely to what they are playing, and pay no attention to the other sounds. In this way, musicians are able to focus on certain sounds, even in a room with lots of nose.
A doctor at Harvard Medical School works with stroke（中风）patients. These people cannot say their name, addresses or other information normally because of their illness. However, they can still sing. He was surprised to find that singing words helped his patients to speak. Why does this work? The doctor isn’t sure. Music seems to make different parts of the brain work, including the damaged（损坏的）parts. This might help patients to use that part of the brain again.
Music can improve concentration（注意力）, memory, listening skills and overall language abilities. It can even help sick people get better. Playing an instrument or singing can help us do better in school and keep our brain sharp as we get older. Music is not only enjoyable but also good for us in many other ways.
1. Musicians can hear better in a noisy room because they_________| A．can focus on certain sounds | B．are cleverer than normal people |
| C．are trained to hear noises | D．have a gift in this |
| A．quick to react | B．having a thin edge |
| C．strong or forceful | D．sudden and rapid |
| A．Music can improve our hearing abilities. | B．The relationship between music and language. |
| C．Music can keep our brain clear. | D．Singing words can help sick people. |
