2 . 假定你是李华，你所在的国际学校要征集一封英文感谢信，以致谢奋战在抗击新冠肺炎一线的医护人员，请你根据下列要点写一封信投稿：
1. 表达谢意; 2. 个人感受; 3. 表达信心。
注意: 1.词数100左右; 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：流行病epidemic       疫情epidemic situation       新型冠状病毒COVID-19
Dear Medical workers,
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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

3 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式.

During the COVID-19 virus outbreak, many people    1    (force) to stay inside are looking for new hobbies. Some of them are even learning to cast spells with Harry Potter-related websites.

In early April, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling announced the launch of Harry Potter at Home. The new website aims     2     (cure) boredom during the long days of     3    (stick) indoors. It’s particularly designed for students and teachers     4     seek relief from the long days of lockdown. Super fans can test their Potter knowledge through various quizzes. Meanwhile newcomers to     5    magic world can read interviews with some of the film series’ actors. The project is a cooperation between Rowling and several on-line     6     (company). Audible, Bloomsbury, OverDrive, Pottermore Publishing and Scholastic are involved.

Rowling has also lifted copyright restrictions for educators as well. Teachers can now    7    (free) share the Harry Potter series with their students online. They may record videos of themselves reading the books aloud. The e-book for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is also     8    (access) to users of Harry Potter at Home website, free     9     charge.

Rowling’s first book    10     (publish) in June 1997. Almost 23 years later, the world is very different. Still, the attraction of magic remains. It feels especially needed in times of great difficulty, like today.

4 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

China started a national online learning platform     1     (keep) studies going for its hundreds of millions of primary and secondary students     2     have been restricted to their homes due to the outbreak of Covid-19.

Jointly     3     (launch) by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Feb. 17, the free learning platform covers the 31 provincial-level     4     (region) on the Chinese Mainland.

The platform has been upgraded to     5     (far) enrich its resources and promote the all-round development of students, featuring 10 sections, including epidemic(流行病) prevention education, moral education, mental health education, classic literature and digital teaching materials.

    6     the support of China's telecom and technology giants, such as China Telecom, China Mobile, Alibaba, Baidu and Huawei, the platform can host 50 million students at the same time.

More than 870 million visits     7     (pay) to the platform's website by March 19, the China Education Daily said in a Monday report.

China has put off the start of the new school semester as part of     8     (it) epidemic control efforts and students have turned to online courses for nearly two months.

As the epidemic has     9     (basic) been controlled in China, some regions have restarted school classes     10     announced dates for starting the new semester, most of which placed graduating middle and high school students first.

5 . Fifteen stores have been permanently barred from using Alibaba's online shopping platform for selling fake（伪劣的）or substandard surgical masks during the pneumonia outbreak caused by a novel coronavirus（冠状病毒）, the e-commerce giant said on Wednesday.

Five of the 15 online shops barred by Tuesday had been referred to public security bureaus（公安局）for further investigation, Alibaba said in a statement.

"We'll continue efforts to fight people making or selling fake goods related to epidemic（流行的）prevention and control on our platform and give them hard punishments, "it said, adding it had zero tolerance for such sellers.

Those engaging in price gouging（哄抬）or false advertising would also be punished more heavily, and the company said it would regularly disclose the names of problematic shops and the punishments they received.

“All the moves are not only to shoulder more responsibility for protecting consumers' interests, but also to show our utmost respect to online sellers who obey the laws and participate in the fight to prevent and control the epidemic,” it said.

Promising to let those engaging in improper or illegal behavior during the epidemic period go broke, with "no space to live in Alibaba", the company also called on other e-commerce platforms to shut their doors to such problematic sellers, and suggested government departments should add them to a dishonesty blacklist.

1. What does the underlined word "barred" most probably mean?

A．Encouraged.	B．Banned.
C．Chosen.	D．Forgiven.

2. Why are the five online shops invested by public security bureaus?

A．Because they might avoid further investigation.

B．Because they might have no licenses to sell medical articles.

C．Because they might make or purchase surgical masks illegally.

D．Because they might sell surgical masks on other e-commerce platforms.

3. What does Alibaba expose the names of those shops and their punishments for?

A．Advertising Alibaba's online shopping platform.

B．Getting more money from public security bureaus.

C．Punishing buyers who buy fake or substandard goods.

D．Protecting consumers' and online sellers' proper interest.

4. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．Alibaba's zero tolerance for bad dealers.

B．Government's punishment for dishonesty.

C．Support from other e-commerce platforms.

D．Improper or illegal business behavior of sellers.

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

More than 1,000 elephants face     1     (starve) in Thailand because of the coronavirus crisis. An almost total absence of visitors     2     (mean) that many caretakers are struggling to afford food for Thailand’s 4,000 captive elephants. The animals can eat up     3     200kg of food a day.

Lek Chailert,       4     (found) of the Save Elephant Foundation, told the BBC:   “If there is no support     5     (keep) them safe, these elephants, some of whom are pregnant, will     6     starve to death or may be put on to the streets to beg.” Some elephants may be sold to zoos or they may     7     (return) to the illegal logging business, which     8     (official) banned the use of elephants in 1989.

“It’s a very hopeless outlook     9     some financial help is received immediately,” Lek Chailert adds. It’s a challenge to keep the animals fed and healthy at     10     best of times but now it’s the dry season, which make the situation even worse.

7 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式。

As the saying goes, “A hero       1    (know) in the time of misfortune”. Zhong Nanshan is a hero like this. He is a doctor in Guangdong,     2     saved many people's lives in 2003.

In 2003, SARS    3    (break)out in Guangdong. Later, it spread across China and other parts of the world. Patients coughed a lot and got fevers.    4    (hundred)of patient seven died from the disease. Even many doctors and nurses got SARS when they treated patients. So, everyone was afraid of it. Zhong spent days and nights to find     5    cause of the disease. Thanks    6    his way of treating, many patients began to get better. Zhong finally won people's trust.

In early 2020,a disease     7    (call)COVID-19 hit Wuhan. It spread around quickly and tens of thousands of people were infected. Zhong, 84, led    8    (he) team to fight the illness. Zhong's team took many measures     9    (cure)the patients with COVID-19. He   advised people to wear masks, wash hands     10    (frequent),stay at home and not to go to crowd places.

Now at the age of 84, Zhong still treats patients in the hospital and teaches young doctors.