1 . 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。

President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order on Tuesday to award four people national medals and honorary titles for their outstanding contributions     1     fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

Zhong Nanshan, 84,     2     excellent disease expert, was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the highest national honor, for his outstanding work in fighting COVID-19 in China. Three others were also awarded the ‘People’s Hero’national honorary title for helping fight against the novel coronavirus(新冠病毒). They are Zhang Boli, a    3    (tradition) Chinese medicine expert; Zhang Dingyu, head of Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital and Chen Wei, a medical scientist    4    made major achievements in COVID-19-related basic research.

Zhong also has long been devoted to the research, prevention and    5    (treat) of major infectious and chronic respiratory disease(慢性呼吸病), and has a long record of    6    (achieve). He was a major figure in the fight against the SARS outbreak in 2003 in China.

    7    (follow) the COVID-19 outbreak, the Chinese government encouraged the country    8    (contain) the disease in Wuhan, Hubei province, after the city was locked down in late January. More than 42,000 medical workers from across the country    9    (send) to Hubei to fight the disease.The pandemic has been     10    (effective) placed under control on the Chinese mainland since early March.

2 . 假定你是李华，请根据下列表格中的内容提示，为校报的英语园地写一篇英语短文，介绍你最崇拜的一位中国科学家。

姓名	梁建英	出生年份	1972年
职务	高铁设计师
主要经历	（1）1995年大学毕业后开始从事高铁研究工作 （2）研制出时速300~350千米的高速动车组 （3）2015年获奖

注意：1.词数80左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：高速动车组high-speed EMU

3 . 根据短文内容，在每个空格处选择一个适当的词，并用该词的适当形式填空，使文章意思完整且符合逻辑。（每空一词，不可重复使用）

working,     the,     inventor,     thought,     for,     so,   through,   who,     were,   but

When asked who invented the telephone , most people say it was Scot, Alexander Granham Bell. However, in 2002 the U.S. Congress agreed that the true     1     was an unknown Italian citizen,     2     died in poverty in New York. And his name is Antonio Meucci. Antonio Meucci was born in Florence in 1808. In the 1830s, he got into trouble with the authorities for his political views and after a period in prison, he decided to move to Cuba. There he continued     3     on his inventions and discovered that sounds could travel     4     wires. In 1850, Meucci moved to the United States, where he     5     he would have more opportunities to develop his ideas. When his wife became ill, he developed a primitive telephone system     6     that she could “phone” him from her bed while he was working. Around 1860, he demonstrated(展示) his latest invention,     7     because he didn’t speak English well, few people     8     interested. Then in 1870, he became ill himself and had to sell his plans to pay     9     doctors. Meanwhile , another person , Alexander Granham Bell, was working on a similar idea and     10       rest is history.

4 . 课文选词填空

Therefore output	export	rid	graduated
expanding	has struggled	hunger

Yuan Longping, the father of super hybrid rice, is a famous scientist. He    1    for the past five decades for the Chinese farmers. In 1953 when Yuan Longping    2    from college,    3    was a disturbing problem in many parts of the countryside.    4    ,Yuan wanted to help    5    his motherland of hunger by increasing the rice    6    without    7    the area of the fields and he made it. He is now circulating his knowledge in many less    8    countries to increase their rice harvests. Yuan Longping’s another dream is to    9    his rice to the world. Thanks to Yuan Longping, the UN has more tools in the battle against hunger    10    the world.

5 . 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。

John Snow, a well-known doctor in London, became     1     (inspire) when he thought About helping ordinary people who     2     (expose) to cholera, a     3     (die) disease of its day. Many thousands of people died     4    there was an outbreak because no one knew the cause of it. John wanted to help solve the problem.He got interested in two theories     5     (explain) how cholera killed people. He believed in the second theory     6    suggested that people     7     (absorb) the disease with their meals. In 1854, when another outbreak hit London, he was ready to test the two theories.     8    the help of the map he made, he got a     9     (value) clue about the cause of the disease and was able to announce that the water was     10     (blame).