1 . During the COVID-19 pandemic (流行病), some people found their exercise was greatly reduced. However, it was an attraction for others to increase their physical activity. With the change of working from home, some physical activity was reduced. People took this newly freed up time as a chance to add exercise to their day, with online fitness programs and health apps (应用软件) reporting an increase.
However, the early drive to exercise appears to have been short-lived for many, with a study comparing activity levels between the first and second waves of COVID-19 in Victoria finding most people reported a reduction in their physical activity levels the second time around because of a shortage of encouragement. A study found that COVID-19 has reduced physical activity and increased sedentary (久坐不动的) behavior, and the effects could be lasting.
Continuing concerns about COVID-19 have led to carefulness about returning to public spaces such as gyms. But also, with many people changing their exercise habits and setting up home gyms during the pandemic, it’s become much more convenient to exercise at home. It’s clear for many of us that COVID-19 changed how and how much we exercise. But the changes don’t necessarily have to be for the worse.
People who changed to online workouts (锻炼), fitness apps and home gyms during the pandemic said their exercise was less satisfying, less enjoyable and they felt less active com-pared with doing exercise in gyms. Besides the physical effects, people reported missing the social communication, friendship, and being avoidable of the gym. In-person classes also offer the advantages of management and instruction, which can help make sure workouts are completed safely and effectively.
However, online workouts, fitness apps and near-home workouts are likely here to stay, and offer many advantages, such as no need to travel to the gym and convenience, making it easy to fit in a workout while working and shouldering family responsibilities.
1. How do some people add exercise to their day during the pandemic?| A．By returning to public places. | B．By driving to a lonely park. |
| C．By turning to the Internet. | D．By taking face-to-face classes. |
| A．People have changed exercise habits. | B．People like to build their home gym. |
| C．People strongly wish to exercise. | D．People refuse to go back to public gyms. |
| A．The disadvantages of exercising at home. |
| B．The way to exercise during the pandemic. |
| C．The examples of good exercise at home. |
| D．The reasons for people changing home exercise. |
| A．It is difficult. | B．It is worrying. |
| C．It is challenging. | D．It is helpful. |
2 . Student from Taiwan played a key role in safeguarding his community in Beijing during pandemic outbreak and is working to establish closer ties between young people across the Straits.
Chen Wencheng from Taiwan, a postdoctoral student at Peking University, had been doing volunteer work in his neighborhood since Spring Festival. This was the first Lunar New Year holiday he didn’t celebrate in his hometown of Zhanghua, Taiwan, during his nine-year stay in Beijing.
Chen, 31, from the university’s department of philosophy and religious studies, chose to stay in Beijing’s Haidian District with his pregnant wife, who gave birth to their daughter last month. After the COVID- 19 outbreak hit Beijing in late January, he soon applied to be a community volunteer to help with pandemic prevention and control.
He started work on the day he signed as a volunteer on Feb4, with his duties including such tasks as checking passes and the temperature of people entering the community or delivering food and other necessities to his neighbors in self-quarantine.
The buildings in the community have five floors with no elevators. Chen sometimes had dozens of deliveries each day, including big rice bags and barrels of cooking oil, among other daily supplies.
“Those were heavy, and that’s why the community needed us younger people to help, ”Chen says.
“The volunteer job looks like petty work, but it matters as it enhances the safety of the more than 2, 000 residents in our community, ”Chen says. “The work also allowed me to get to know more of my neighbors, which makes the whole community feel like a big family. ”
1. What made Chen Wencheng play a key role in safeguarding his community?| A．His rich knowledge. | B．His wife’s request. |
| C．His selfless devotion. | D．His classmates’ invitation. |
| A．The deliveries | B．The big rice bags. |
| C．The barrels of cooking oil. | D．The daily supplies. |
| A．The volunteer job. | B．The brave helper. |
| C．The teacher. | D．His septuagenarian. |
| A．To praise students from Taiwan. |
| B．To carry forward the national spirit. |
| C．To introduce a true volunteering spirit. |
| D．To help with pandemic prevention and control. |
3 . Pupils from a primary school in Merthyr Tydfil have created their very own mobile phone app in an attempt to boost other children’s health and happiness.
The content on the app includes
Although it’s
The children said Max and the app helped them after the “
| A．news | B．advice | C．information | D．homework |
| A．dog | B．student | C．teacher | D．assistant |
| A．watched | B．filmed | C．downloaded | D．played |
| A．hurried | B．expected | C．decided | D．continued |
| A．resting | B．waiting | C．hiding | D．learning |
| A．event | B．project | C．promotion | D．campaign |
| A．changeable | B．predictable | C．affordable | D．available |
| A．schools | B．hospitals | C．communities | D．banks |
| A．casually | B．naturally | C．mainly | D．temporarily |
| A．exercise | B．dine | C．sleep | D．party |
| A．oldest | B．bravest | C．wildest | D．biggest |
| A．trained | B．walked | C．protected | D．adopted |
| A．lies down | B．shows up | C．runs off | D．rolls over |
| A．game | B．movie | C．cartoon | D．test |
| A．difficult | B．strange | C．precious | D．pleasant |
| A．supports | B．surprises | C．disturbs | D．disappoints |
| A．trouble | B．image | C．presence | D．failure |
| A．wander | B．litter | C．spit | D．argue |
| A．out of sight | B．on the way | C．from afar | D．in class |
| A．terrible | B．sensitive | C．improved | D．weakened |
4 . The sound coming from Taronga Zoo Sydney in Australia may sound like the cries of a human baby.
Echo is a superb lyrebird (琴鸟), an Australian bird named for the shape of its tail.
Seven-year-old Echo can mimic the sound of a fire alarm and the “leave immediately” announcement at the zoo, Leanne Golebiowski, a bird expert at Taronga Zoo Sydney said
Male lyrebirds use their mimicking talents mainly for mating. During their breeding sea-son, male lyrebirds can be heard singing for up to 4 hours a day. Their songs consist of a lot of different bird calls that they have picked up from their surroundings.
| A．However, don’t be alarmed. |
| B．The female should stay with him. |
| C．The number of lyrebirds is on the increase. |
| D．The tail looks like an instrument known as a lyre. |
| E．Obviously, he has been working on his craft during lockdown. |
| F．About a year ago, Echo started practicing baby cries, she said. |
| G．But sometimes their mating songs include other non-bird sounds. |
5 . Dr. Anthony Fauci said on February 21st 2021, that it's "possible" Americans will still need to wear masks in 2022 to protect against the coronavirus（新冠肺炎）, even as the US may reach" a significant degree of normality" by the end of this year.
Asked by CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" whether he thinks Americans will till need to wear masks next year, Fauci replied: "You know, I think it is possible that that's the case and, again, it really depends on what you mean by normality. "
The comments from Fauci come as the US COVID-19 death approaches 500, 000 and the country nears a full year in its fight against the virus.
Fauci told Bash that while he can't predict when the US might return to operating as it did before the pandemic （大流行病）took hold, he thinks that by the end of this year "we're going to have a significant degree of normality beyond the terrible burden that all of us have been through over the last year. "
"As we get into the fall and the winter, by the end of the year, I agree with(President Joe Biden)completely that we will be approaching a degree of normality, "said Fauci, who serves as Biden's chief medical adviser.
Mask-wearing is critical to slowing the spread of the virus, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says they can help protect both the people wearing them and those around them from transmitting the virus.
1. When will COVID-19 epidemic be relatively controlled in the US in Fauci's opinion?| A．By the end of 2022. | B．By the end of 2021. |
| C．In the middle of 2022. | D．In the middle of 2021. |
| A．There are nearly half a million US COVID-19 death in the first year. |
| B．Fauci thought there was no need to wear mask in 2022. |
| C．Fauci thought it would be hard to reach a degree of normality in the US. |
| D．The number of US COVID-19 death will approaches 500, 000 in the end. |
| A．Mask-wearing can only protect those who wear it. |
| B．It is certain to take off the mask in 2022 in the US. |
| C．Whether to wear masks depends on the development of the pandemic. |
| D．Wearing masks increased the burden of citizens during the pandemic. |
| A．The current pandemic situation in the US. |
| B．The prediction of pandemic. |
| C．Wearing masks makes no difference in the US. |
| D．It is necessary to wear mask in 2022 in the US. |
6 . Who do you count as your friends? From our BFF to a workmate, it’s good to have someone to chat with or offer comfort and support. But when it comes to friendship, is it more important to have quantity or quality?
The recent isolation(隔离) we have endured due to the coronavirus pandemic has made some of us question our friendships. We’ve fallen out of touch with friends and acquaintances, and it may feel awkward, but do we actually have to rekindle (再续) every relationship we once had? It might be time to think about who you kept in touch with, who you missed talking to, and who you didn’t. In short, maybe it’s time to renew your list of real mates.
“There’s no need to stay friends,” a writer for BBC Worklife, Bryan Lufkin says, “While people have known for years that friendships are certainly good for your health, experts say it’s only natural for acquaintances and even friends to fall by the wayside (半途而度) as time goes on. It’s nothing to feel guilty about.”
Of course, it can be hard to choose who’s in your friendship circle. This is what Suzanne Degges-White, professor of counselling at Northern Illinois University, calls our ‘friendscape’. She says, “in life, as we go through certain stages and ages, our attention changes, and we want to be around people who are like us.”
So, changing friends is normal, but we still need those special pals who’ve known us long term. These are friendships we invest time in. According to Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford, these are your inner circle of friends—your “shoulders to cry on”— and you have to see them at least once a week to keep them in that circle. He adds that the friends that do drift (渐渐疏远) are mostly “friendships of convenience”. But the advice for keeping a good friendship is to share how you feel with someone you trust— this can help strengthen your friendship as well as giving you both a chance to support each other.
1. What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?| A．People should rethink the friendship they had |
| B．The isolation is harmful to friendship. |
| C．We should keep in touch with every friend |
| D．Covid-19 has made friends feel awkward. |
| A．It is necessary to stay friends. | B．It is good to write for BBC. |
| C．Changing friendship is quite normal. | D．Changing friendship is bad for health. |
| A．Suzanne was a friend of the author. |
| B．Suzanne shared different points of view. |
| C．The author invented “friendseape” with her. |
| D．The author aimed to stress the viewpoint |
| A．How to invest time in friendship. | B．How to support your friends. |
| C．How to trust your friends. | D．How to keep your friendship. |
7 . Healthy people exercise. Exercise makes people healthy. A new study shows that exercise helps people who get COVID-19. They seem to show fewer severe symptoms. They are less likely to need to go to the hospital.
Fit people are less likely to catch colds and other viral infections. They recover faster than people who are out of shape.
These studies did not compare different exercise routines with COVID-19 outcomes.
An expert said, “Being sedentary is the greatest risk factor for severe illness. And while you cannot do anything about other risks, you can exercise.”
| A．The current virus is new |
| B．Here is what the study shows |
| C．However, a new study does that |
| D．Exercise makes people wise and healthy |
| E．Exercise can help immune systems respond |
| F．They don’t like to exercise because it takes too much time |
| G．The most active group reported at least 150 minutes a week |
8 . To keep social distancing and work at home during the pandemic (流行病) has led to less time moving around, and more time sitting and looking at screens. For many office workers, working at home means spending hours sitting at our desk.
Start small
People trying to start exercising often get caught up in an “all or nothing” thinking which means either I do zero or I do two hours. And if I don’t get two hours, then it doesn’t count, or it’s not good enough.
Part of developing a good exercise habit is to know yourself well. Knowing what’s possible and what’s not realistic for you. For instance, if you’re not a morning person, don’t plan to exercise in the morning. And if you hate running, don’t run just because someone tells you it’s good for you.
Walk whenever you can
Sitting less and walking more will make a big difference. Use your stairs instead of an elevator. And if you don’t have to go out, just walk room to room back and forth to get those extra steps. If you have a meeting, use the break of that meeting to walk around.
| A．Make sure to know yourself well |
| B．Choose a suitable time for yourself |
| C．All these steps will count and be helpful |
| D．That’s a great place for everybody to walk |
| E．But five minutes is believed to be better than none |
| F．And it is ruining our health physically and mentally |
| G．You can think of possible ways for you to start or stick to |
1. 中国向80多个国家提供了物资或技术援助;
2. 援助项目(口罩、仪器、药物、试剂等)。
参考词汇：试剂盒testing kit; 传染病epidemic
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10 . With effective measures, travelers around the world are doing their best to reduce the risk of infecting COVID-19.
What can I do to prepare for a potential COVID-19 infection？
Start by booking flexible transport and accommodation, Read the fine print or call ahead to see if companies refund last-minute cancellations, allow exchanges, or cover any unforeseen COVID-related costs.
Your insurance that costs you a little extra now may save you thousands of dollars down the road. For those concerned about treatment abroad, some companies provide medical evacuation services to your home country and hospital can be your choice because costs, which can be thousands of dollars, can be frustrating.
What do I do if I develop COVID-19 symptoms while traveling？
If you’re experiencing the signs of the coronavirus, prioritize getting tested, then remain isolated (隔离) until you receive the results. Information is power: The sooner you’re diagnosed, the sooner you can protect yourself and those around you. Next, tell any close contacts who may have been exposed to the virus.
How do I isolate?
Protect those around you by staying in a designated quarantine room.
| A．But getting infected can still happen. |
| B．If possible, using a separate bathroom. |
| C．What can I do if I spend too much dollars? |
| D．Clear communication is the best way to protect everyone. |
| E．Why do I choose travel insurance that covers COVID-19? |
| F．If the health crisis continues to change, the rules change too. |
| G．Next, ensure you have health insurance covering your travelling abroad. |
