1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（仅限 1 词）或括号内单词的正确形式（不多于 3 个词）。

The European Union is     1     organization of European countries. The countries are     2     (depend) and are governed in different     3     (way). In the United Kingdom,     4     example, the head of state is a king or queen. In France, on the other hand, the head of state is a president. But each of them     5     (send) representatives to the European Parliament,     6     has some control over what happens in each of the member countries.

The idea of the European Union     7     (begin) in the 1950s. The first members were France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Italy. Little by little, the number increased during the second half of the     8     (twenty) century. By the year 2000, there were 15 member countries. The new countries were Austria, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

In 2004, the European Union increased to 25 members. The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia, plus the Mediterranean islands of Cyprus and Malta all became members. The     9     (expand) European Union has a population of more than half a billion people, twice     10     big as the population of the United States.

2 . The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation[BMGF] said this week it will provide up to $100 million to support action against the 2019 novel coronavirus. It says the money will help strengthen efforts to test people for the virus, separate healthy individuals from the sick and find treatment for them.

Controlling the epidemic:          The donation will help speed development of the “tools to bring this epidemic under control,”the chief executive officer of the Gates Foundation; Mark Suzman said.

Worldwide   emergency:The Gates Foundation is giving money and working with other donors to help the World Health Organization (WHO), Chinese medical workers and others worldwide.It noted the need for an organized international effort to fight the virus.

Increased efforts to find and treat the coronavirus:The   foundation promised $20 million right away to hurry the process of identifying those who are sick, keeping them separate, and helping them get better. The goal is to stop the disease from spreading to more people and places.       Money is also going to public health officials in China and other countries with coronavirus patients to help them pay the start-up cost of medical workers and supplies.

Protecting at-risk groups in Africa and South Asia:Recent epidemics, such as the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009, have had a big effect on people living in extreme poverty. Most of those people live in African countries south of the Sahara Desert or parts of South Asia. Another $20 million is going to public health officials in these areas to improve their emergency operations and to treat confirmed cases. One partner is the African Field Epidemiology Network, a non-profit service that currently operates in more than 30 African countries.

Developing   Vaccines:Of   the total donation, $60 million will go to speed the process of making vaccines   to   protect   against   the   novel   coronavirus.   One   organization   working   on   developing   the anti-coronavirus vaccines is the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations with Chinese public- and private-sector researchers; trying to find ways to stop the spread of the virus.

1. The money donated by the BMGF will be used in the following aspects except

A．to test people for the virus	B．to separate the healthy from the sick
C．to build a new hospital in China	D．to find treatment for the virus -infected

2. How many main targets will the large sum of donated money serve for?

A．One

B．Five

C．Two

D．Countless

3. Which of the following statements is true?

A．The money is specially donated to China’s public health department.

B．Another $20 million will be used to help African people suffering from starvation.

C．The African Field Epidemiology Network is a non- profit medical service organization only in western Africa.

D．Most of the donated money will be put into the developing and innovating vaccines.

4. The passage is most probably digested from .

A．a news report

B．a magazine

C．a text book

D．a poster