1 . Getting sick is a common part of people’s lives. But their attitudes toward being sick and hospital visits vary from country to country. This difference hasn’t been more obvious since the start of the novel coronavirus epidemic — when a great number of people are falling ill all at the same time.

The conditions in the US are getting worse quickly, which is largely due to the fact that there’s no universal health-care system. According to the 2019 US Census, 28 million people are not covered or do not have adequate health insurance, meaning that they would probably avoid getting tested for the virus, for fear of the cost of being hospitalized.

‘‘There is a strong financial reason to hide symptoms, to try to keep working and caring for children, and thus, they’re spreading the virus … simply because they have no other choice.” wrote reporter James Hamblin on The Atlantic.

Germany, on the contrary, has one of the world’s best-developed public healthcare systems that covers every citizen. People in Germany — who have ‘‘high levels of job security’’, according to the Los Angeles Times — are also more likely to follow the separation measures and stay at home without having to worry about losing their jobs.

Japan also has universal public health-care, but it brings another kind of problem: People tend to seek more medical care than necessary. According to Yusuke Tsugawa, a physician at Harvard University, Japan has three times more outpatient (门诊) visits than in the US, and patients also stay in hospital for three times longer than in the US. This often wastes medical resources, which are even more critical and precious during a global pandemic.

‘‘It isn’t good to do tests just to ease public anxiety,” Kentaro Iwata, an infectious disease expert at Kobe University, Japan, told Reuters. ‘‘If they test everyone with light symptoms, the medical system will break down.”

Indeed, a country’s healthcare system is the key to keeping its people safe - it’s also the key to whether a country can survive a crisis like the novel coronavirus pandemic.

1. Why are the conditions in the US worsening rapidly?

A．All people there avoid getting tested.

B．Most people there don’t have health insurance.

C．Most people there can’t afford being hospitalized.

D．All people there are not covered by health-care system.

2. According to James Hamblin, what makes people in US try to hide their illness?

A．They choose to do so.	B．They don’t want to work alone.
C．They are concerned about money.	D．They want to stay with their children.

3. What is the problem in Japan?

A．They have too many outpatient visits.

B．They waste too much time on unnecessary testing.

C．They spend too much money on public health-care.

D．They don’t make the best use of medical resources.

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is gaining global popularity. According to a government white paper. TCM    1     (introduce) in 183 countries and regions around the world so far.

Westerners’ understanding of TCM, however, maybe limited to acupuncture (针灸), cupping (拔罐) and massage. As    2     matter of fact, Chinese herbs play a more important role than physical    3     (treat) in getting rid of diseases and keeping the body    4     good condition in the TCM treatment system.

Herbs are made into pills, powder and soup,     5     are used for different kinds of illnesses.

The herbs,     6     (they) quality and quantity, and the processing of the ingredients jointly determine the effectiveness of the prescription.TCM,     7     (compare) with Western medicine, lacks standardization because the chemical composition and functions of its medicines are unclear and their effects are    8     (stable).     9     (fortunate), standardization has improved in recent decades, with an increasing number of factories     10     (produce) patented TCM drugs.

3 . Who is the woman probably speaking to?

A．Her good friend.

B．Her doctor.

C．Her personal trainer.

4 . Where does the conversation probably take place?

A．In the playground.

B．At home.

C．In the hospital.

5 . 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。

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（ 瘟疫，流行病）.

Zhong Nanshan,     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. 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 breakthroughs in COVID-19-related basic research.

Zhong also has long been devoted to the research, prevention     5     treatment 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 severe acute respiratory syndrome(综合症状)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.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How long has the woman been in hospital?

A．For one week.

B．For ten days.

C．For two weeks.

2. When can the woman leave the hospital?

A．In two weeks.

B．Tomorrow.

C．Uncertain.

3. What’s the doctor’s suggestion for the woman?

A．To have medical checks regularly.

B．To take the medicine every day.

C．To avoid any physical exercise.

4. How soon will the woman get well completely?

A．In a few days.

B．In a long time.

C．As soon as she leaves the hospital.

7 . Driven by her passion for providing quality healthcare, a Latvian woman has won over the hearts of the elderly residing in the nursing home she oversees.

It is incredibly rare to find a Caucasian woman working as the director of a nursing home in Shanghai. But the fact that Anastasija Puzankova can even converse in Liantang, a Chinese dialect spoken only by residents in a small town in southwestern Shanghai, makes her one of a kind.

“I had always wondered how the elderly were getting along with others, or if they were well cared for. I realized that I could better serve them and understand their concerns if I spoke their dialect.” says the 35-year-old, who also speaks Russian, English, Latvian, French and Spanish.

Puzankova chose to study Sinology(汉学) out of her curiosity about China at the University of Latvia in 2003. The next year, she traveled to Shanghai as part of an exchange program and then she spent the next 10 years studying law at Fudan University, graduating with a master's degree in 2014.

Despite her qualifications, in 2018, Puzankova joined Haiyang Group, a Shanghai-based company that operates the nursing home, as an executive assistant. During that period, she performed so well in her nursing and management training that she was appointed the director of the home after just one year.

A caregiver, surnamed Cai, says the atmosphere at the home has changed since Puzankova took charge. “She makes life in the nursing home uplifting and purposeful.” says Cai.

“She throws monthly birthday parties for the elderly, creates a festive mood in the home for every traditional festival and frequently organizes handicrafts classes and activities to stimulate the minds of the residents.”

When family visits and group activities were delayed during the novel coronavirus outbreak, Puzankova came up with a similar idea at the home, purchasing vegetable seeds and growing them in the field near the nursing home so that the residents can observe the plants growing from their windows.

“Just watching the plants grow can lift their spirits. We can also serve these organic vegetables to them.” she explains.

Puzankova says, “I simply like communicating with people, understanding their personalities and offering help when they are in need. Making an elderly person happy isn't hard. It just takes a little time, love and thought.”

1. Why did Anastasija Puzankova learn the Chinese dialect Liantang?

A．To satisfy her superior.

B．To research its history and popularity.

C．To communicate with the elderly better.

D．To prove her language learning capacity.

2. During the novel coronavirus outbreak, Puzankova ____________.

A．forbade family visits forever.

B．created a festive mood in the home.

C．organized some outdoor activities for the elderly.

D．planted some vegetables for the elderly to watch indoors.

3. What can we learn from Puzankova’s story?

A．Time tests.

B．Hard work pays off.

C．Love breaks down barriers.

D．Education is the key to success.

4. The best title of the passage could be “ _________”.

A．A foreign face with a local soul

B．A language expert with a loving heart

C．A nursing home with a woman director

D．An executive assistant with a master’s degree

8 . The study findings about a new blood test have been published this morning in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA Cardiology). The study was conducted smoothly and effectively based on their working together with the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB), New Zealand, and the Christchurch Heart Institute, which is run by the university of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Co-lead author, Associate Professor John Pickering of the University of Otago, says, “When a patient comes to an emergency department (ED) with symptoms that suggest a potential heart attack, present laboratory blood-testing procedures can take 1-2 hours to discover the risk level, but with this new test we can get a result in just fifteen minutes, from the bedside, or ‘point-of-care’, freeing up ED and health care staff. The patient can then either be cleared to leave, or quickly progressed to specialist care. The result proves to be true after later observation and other tests.”

Senior author, and Director of Emergency Medicine Research, Dr Martin Than of the CDHB says present point-of-care tests can lack the precision of this new method that is centered around a measurement of cardiac troponin (肌钙蛋白) in the blood. “Our results have extremely exciting potential for not only EDs, but also remote health care providers—such as those in the countryside. Given the great effect heart disease and other related conditions have on not only New Zealand society but also the international community, we have something that could benefit tens of millions of patients globally,” Dr Than says.

The analysis of this observational study, conducted from 2016 to 2017 at Christchurch Hospital’s emergency department, included about 350 patients with symptoms of a heart attack. “So far our testing has shown that close to fifty percent of patients could have the heart attack safely and precisely excluded (排除……的可能性) soon after arrival at the ED. Wider study is required to be in progress and some other study concerned across ten District Health Boards in New Zealand is planned for next year,” Dr Than says.

1. How did the researchers get the findings?

A．By doing effective teamwork.	B．By observing patients with heart disease.
C．By applying the EDs’ advanced technology.	D．By receiving support from other specialists.

2. Which of the following can best describe the new blood test?

A．Convenient and cheap.	B．Quick and reliable.
C．Convenient but expensive.	D．Quick but risky.

3. What problem does the present point-of-care method face?

A．It spends too much to get medical training.	B．It doesn’t have its own health care staff.
C．It can’t check patients’ blood accurately.	D．It needs money to buy medical equipment.

4. What does Dr. Than mean about the new test in the last paragraph?

A．It is being used globally.	B．It can cure heart disease.
C．It’ll make progress next year.	D．It needs further research.

9 . 假设你是李华，最近，在英语课上，你们班学习了有关急救方面的一些常识，同学们普遍对这方面的知识很感兴趣，大家都认为学校有必要提供相关方面的课程，请你作为班长给校长写一封信，提出你的建议，并写出建议的理由。
内容包括： 1. 学习急救知识的意义；
2. 具体建议及原因；
3. 重申建议的重要性。
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2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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10 . Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies （药店）.Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially if they lack health insurance. Or they may stay away because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, smoking, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly game.

Every day, more than six million Americas turn to the Internet for medical answers—most of them aren't nearly sceptical enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet & American life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn't look up " headache," and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 are scored as "high quality.” Recent studies have found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous information exists on the Internet.

The problem is that most people don't know the safe way to surf the Web. "They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that's risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative (权威的)，so it's hard to know if what you’re reading is reasonable or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.

1. According to the text, an increasing number of Americans       .

A．are suffering from mental disorders

B．turn to Internet pharmacies for help

C．like to play deadly games with doctors

D．are sceptical about surfing medical websites

2. Why do some Americans stay away from doctors?

A．They find medical devices easy to operate.

B．They prefer to be diagnosed online by doctors.

C．They are afraid to face the truth of their health.

D．They are afraid to misuse their health insurance.

3. What can we learn according to the study of Brown Medical School?

A．More than 6 million Americans distrust doctors.

B．Only 1/10 of medical websites aim to make a profit.

C．About 1/10 of the websites surveyed are of high quality.

D．72% of health websites offer incomplete and faulty facts.

4. Which of the following is the author's main argument?

A．It's cheap to self-treat your own illness.

B．It's embarrassing to discuss your bad habits.

C．It's reasonable to look up a medical website.

D．It's dangerous to be your own doctor.