2 . Twice every month, Miranda Sam, a 66-year-old Ghanaian, visited the China Traditional Herbal Hospital, a private herbal facility at Pokuase, a suburb of the Ghanaian capital, for treatment.

“I was squeezing lemons, and when I finished, I could not get up or even move my legs, so I went to the hospital and did an X-ray examination, but they saw nothing. Meanwhile, I could not walk and was in a wheelchair,” the retired worker said. Hence Miranda decided to visit the herbal facility. “On two occasions, I had to do acupuncture(针灸), and I have found great relief. Now I walk unaided, so I keep coming for treatment,” she said.

As Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is gaining popularity in Ghana, many acupuncture clinics run by Chinese doctors pop up in the country. However, the China Traditional Herbal Hospital was established by 52-year-old Ghanaian business owner Bediako, after his fruitful encounter with the effects of TCM in 2012. With the help of a Chinese lady, Bediako set up a small clinic specializing in TCM. Years on, the facility has subsequently grown into a bigger herbal hospital. The hospital treats patients with a combination of local and Chinese herbal formulas. It supports this with the application of traditional Chinese medical methods.

Strokes(中风) account for 1.3 percent of all hospital admissions in Ghana, and 6.3 percent of all hospital deaths. But Bediako is confident that as more people with these conditions turn to the natural methods of healing, the pain and death rates would subside. “A gentleman was brought here three weeks ago, who could not sit, stand, or walk. He was first taken through acupuncture. I observed him on camera 30 minutes later, squatting(蹲), standing, and walking. You come here with your pain but will leave with a smile. That is our feature,” he said.

The hospital has started a second facility in Ashaiman near the capital, with plans to open other branches across the country to meet the growing demand.

1. What can we learn from Miranda’s words in Paragraph 2?

A．Her illness is not a bit severe.	B．Squeezing lemons is a risky job.
C．She is feeling better now.	D．She is unsure about what to do next.

2. What do we know about Bediako’s hospital?

A．It is located in the downtown area.

B．It was originally a specialized clinic.

C．It was established by a Chinese doctor.

D．It uses nothing but Chinese herbs.

3. What does the underlined word “subside” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Decline.	B．Remain.
C．Climb.	D．Change.

4. What’s the writer’s probable attitude towards the TCM in Ghana?

A．Negative.	B．Optimistic.
C．Uncertain.	D．Concerned.

3 . As we know, mental health is in a worse situation among young people globally.     1     This not only lowers quality of life, but has a negative impact on a teenager’s growth. To get at the root causes of this decline, a group of scientists conducted a study and found the combination of high screen time and low “green time” greatly affects mental well-being. Children nowadays spend more time than ever in front of electronic devices.

The average daily screen time for 8-to-18-year-olds was 7.5 hours in the U. S. ten years ago. As the study states, “This greatly goes above guidelines of 2 hours per day.” Now the condition is worse by the fact that so many schools are using technology to teach classes. Indeed some screen time can promote connections and enable tasks to be done more efficiently.     2     In addition to troubling nerve stimulation, too much screen time takes the place of important protective behaviors for mental health such as physical activity, getting adequate sleep and academic activities.

The study authors suggest that green time could act as a cure for screen time, essentially balancing its negative effects.     3     The attention systems can be restored in natural environment when they are worn out, because they employ involuntary attention there, which is not tiring or effortful.

    4     The great nature could potentially function as a psychological well-being promotion intervention (干预) for children and teenagers in a high-tech era. This knowledge could be a guide to public health departments that are struggling to restore happiness and cheer in countless anxious teenagers.     5    

A．Teenagers urgently need more green time.

B．Screen-based technology makes kids less attentive.

C．The frequency of depression and anxiety is increasing.

D．There are many more ways, nevertheless , in which it is harmful.

E．It suggests more outdoor projects like building parks could be fundamental.

F．Paying constant directed attention to screens can raise directed attention tiredness.

G．This study highlights that nature may currently be a potential public health resource.

4 . 课本原文填空。

When she was five years old, Lin Qiaozhi was deeply affected by her mother's death. At age 18, she chose to study medicine instead of following the traditional path of     1     (marry) like the majority of girls. Eight years later, Lin graduated from Peking Union Medical College(PUMC). She            2     (immediate)became the first woman ever to be hired as a resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. Within six months, she was named a chief resident physician, a position that usually took four years to achieve.

After working for a few years, she was sent to study in Europe and then, in the US. She greatly impressed her American     3     (同事)and they invited her to stay. However, she     4     (拒绝)the offer. In 1941, Dr Lin became the first Chinese woman ever     5     (appoint) director of the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. Dr Lin opened a private     6     (诊所)to help people in need and charged very low     7     (费用) and often reduced costs for poor patients. At times she was even seen     8     (ride) a donkey to faraway villages to provide medical care.

The new People's Republic of China saw Dr Lin Qiaozhi playing a key role. In 1954, she            9    (elect) to the first National People's Congress and held many important positions.

Though she never married, she was known as the “mother of ten thousand babies”, having delivered over 50, 000 babies in her lifetime. And she didn't     10     (退休)until the day she died.

7 . The stomach is an extremely strong organ, full of acid to break down each meal. In order to prevent this acid from burning a hole in our stomachs and damaging other organs, our stomach lining is specially adapted to contain the acid safely.

H. pylori are able to live in the stomach by living in the lining, safe from harsh stomach acid. These bacteria are actually pretty common in people, approximately a third of Australians have H. pylori in their bodies, but not all have symptoms.

The bacteria can eventually create infection in stomach lining, a condition known as gastritis, by wearing away the lining and allowing stomach acid to burn away stomach tissue, causing painful ulcers.

Up until the 1980s, it was thought that bacteria could not survive in stomach acid. The cause of stomach ulcers was due to lifestyle choices: stress, smoking, spicy foods; the stomach acid was breaking through the lining on its own.

This belief was first questioned in 1979 by Robin Warren, an Australian pathologist, who found bacteria on a microscope slide containing the stomach lining of a patient with gastritis. In the years that followed Warren continued his research.

Warren then teamed up with Barry Marshall in 1981 and the two continued with the research, trying to separate the mystery bacteria and find a cure. Over the next three years, they tested their theories with some positive results; however, the idea that bacteria could be the cause of gastritis was not widely accepted or even acknowledged.

Finally, fed up with being ignored and confident in his findings, Bary Marshall decided to test on himself. He infected himself with H. pylori and soon developed gastritis and terrible stomach ulcers. Marshall then began to cure himself by taking a dose of antibiotics. This once and for all proved not only that bacteria could grow in stomach acid, but it could also cause gastritis and stomach ulcers.   

Eventually, the world fully acknowledged Warren and Marshall’s huge contribution to science and medicine and the two were awarded the Nobel prize in Medicine in 2005, twenty-six years after Robin Warren first began his research.

1. We can learn from the text that H. pylori are a kind of________.

A．organs

B．infections

C．bacteria

D．symptoms

2. Which of the following was NOT people’s initial beliefs about gastritis?

A．Lifestyle choices caused stomach ulcers.

B．Stomach acid could break through the lining on its own.

C．Bacteria couldn’t survive in the stomach.

D．Some bacteria can create infection by burning away stomach tissue.

3. How did Barry Marshall prove that H. pylori caused gastritis?

A．Choosing unhealthy lifestyles.	B．Introducing H. pylori to his own stomach.
C．Finding the bacteria on stomach lining.	D．Growing H. pylori in the lab.

4. The text is most likely written to________.

A．chemists

B．patients

C．researchers

D．the general public

8 . Hundreds of millions have rolled up their sleeves for the COVID-19 vaccine, but why haven’t they rolled up their pant legs instead? Why do we get most shots in our arms? What s the science behind why we get most vaccines in our arm? It’s worth noting that most, but not all, vaccines are given in the muscle. Some vaccines are given orally. Others arc given just beneath the skin. But why is the muscle so important, and does location matter?

There are important immune cells in muscle tissue. These immune cells recognize the antigen, a tiny piece of a virus or bacteria introduced by the vaccine that stimulates an immune response. Thus, muscles make an excellent vaccine administration site.

In the ease of the COVID-19 vaccine, the immune cells in the muscle tissue pick up these antigens and present them to the lymph nodes. Injecting the vaccine into muscle tissue keeps the vaccine in a small area, allowing immune cells to sound the alarm to other immune cells and get to work. Once a vaccine is recognized by the immune cells in the muscle, these cells carry the antigen to lymph vessels, which transport the antigen-carrying immune cells into the lymph nodes. Lymph nodes, key components of our immune system, contain more immune cells that recognize the antigens in vaccines and start the immune process of creating antibodies.

Muscle tissue also tends to keep vaccine reactions in the local area. If certain vaccines are injected into fat tissue, the chance of painful redness or swelling increases because fat tissue has poor blood supply, leading to poor absorption of some vaccine components.

Another deciding factor in vaccine administration location is the size of the muscle. Adults and children aged three and older tend to receive vaccines in their upper arm. Younger children receive their vaccines in the middle part of the leg because their arm muscles are smaller and less developed. Convenience and social acceptability should also be considered. As is known, rolling up your sleeve is way easier and more preferred.

All things considered, when it comes to the flu shot and the COVID-19 vaccine, for most adults and kids, the arm is the preferred vaccination route.

1. Why do muscles make a good vaccine administration site?

A．Muscles can easily recognize bacteria.	B．Muscle tissue stimulates immune response.
C．Muscle tissue contains vital immune cells.	D．Muscles can prevent reproduction of viruses.

2. What can be learned from Paragraph 3?

A．Lymph vessels perform transporting function.

B．Lymph vessels is critical to creating antibodies.

C．Immune cells can automatically sound the alarm.

D．Immune cells give antigens to lymph vessels.

3. What could be a result of injecting vaccines into fat tissue?

A．Poor blood supply.

B．Better absorption.

C．Local pain.

D．Rapid fat loss.

4. The passage is most likely taken from ______.

A．an advertisement

B．a journal

C．a speech

D．a novel

9 . Paintings and sculptures can be a feast for the eyes of visitors to art museums, but today their viewing is also an unconventional treatment for people with mental illness.

Last month, a group of Canadian doctors started to write a new kind of prescription（处方）,which gives patients free access to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts（MMFA）. There, they will have a "relaxing, revitalizing experience" looking at the museum's collections, according to MMFA.

Nathalie Bondil, the museum's director general, believes that being in contact with culture and arts can help with wellbeing. "In the 21st century, culture will be what physical activity was for health in the 20th century," she said.

Each prescription will allow not only the patients but also their families or friends to go with them. In the museum, the visitor can appreciate the artworks, and take part in a wide range of activities including drawing, sewing（缝纫）and making a sculpture with recycled materials.

The new treatment is said to be the first of its kind in the world. But there's increasing evidence that the display of visual art, especially art depicting（描绘）nature, can have positive effects on people with depression, anxiety and self-esteem（自尊）problems.

In 2017, the UK's All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing（APPGAHW）also released a report stating that "the time has come to recognise the powerful contribution the arts can make to our health and wellbeing".

Is it possible for art to improve overall health? We may not know the answer yet. But one thing is certain, more and more people today are persuaded by the idea that "art is good medicine".

1. What prescription did the group of Canadian doctors give to mental patients?

A．Get conventional treatment.

B．Relax by experiencing nature.

C．Join in some physical activities.

D．Appreciate paintings and sculptures.

2. What might Nathalie agree with?

A．Contacting culture and arts can make people rich.

B．Visiting art museums can help keep people healthy.

C．Culture will replace physical activities in the 21st century

D．Mental patients should go to museums with their families.

3. What do we know about the new treatment?

A．It can help with mental problems.

B．Nothing has proved it right so far.

C．It was used before by visual artists.

D．APPGAHW doubted its value.

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Will MMFA be open to patients?

B．Is there a new treatment for artists?

C．Will fine arts improve mental health?

D．Is there a better medicine than art?

10 . 语法填空

Tu Youyou, a     1     (commit)and patient scientist, was born in Ningbo, China, on 30 December 1930, and graduated    2    Peking University Medical School in 1955. After she graduated, she worked at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. In 1967, the Chinese government formed a team of scientists with the    3    (object)of discovering a new treatment for malaria, and Tu Youyou was among the first researchers chosen.     4    the beginning, Tu Youyou went to Hainan,     5    malaria was more common, to study malaria patients. In 1969, she became    6    head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts     7    find)traditional botanical treatments for the disease. Her team examined over 2, 000 old medical texts, and     8    evaluate)280, 000 plants for their medical     9     (property)From their research, they discovered and tested 380 distinct ancient Chinese    10    (medicine)treatments that showed promise in the fight against malaria.