初三19-20学年第29期总第620期1
By Amy

World takes caution (P2)
Pre-reading
1. What do you know about coronavirus?
2. Do you know how to prevent yourself from being infected?

While reading
Choose the answer:
1. What do we know from the story?
A. WHO degraded its risk assessment for the novel coronavirus.
B. No patients have died of COVID-19 in South Korea.
C. Italy had the largest number of infections confirmed in one day.
D. The cases in Nigeria have a connection with Italy.

2. Paragraph 3 tells us ____.
A. how fast the virus is spreading around the world
B. why WHO upgraded its coronavirus risk assessment
C. what action WHO has taken to fight the outbreak
D. how many countries COVID-19 has affected

3. Why did the CDC publish a manual in foreign languages?
A. To help develop vaccines against the virus.
B. To promote a website that is about the virus.
C. To share the latest prevention information with the world.
D. To encourage people from other countries to visit their website.

4. Which is NOT a helpful suggestion for protecting ourselves, according to the last paragraph?
A. Wash our hands regularly.
B. Stop traveling if you have a fever.
C. Clean surfaces regularly with disinfectant.
D. Be careful while talking to people over 60.

Words in use
根据首字母提示完成下列句子：
1. Your test results has come out. They are p______.  You’ll have to take some extra medicine.
2. “Is everything going well?” he asked Lily with c________.
3. The police c_______ again and they were sure that man with beard was the murderer.

Post reading
1. Do you think China has played an important role in the battle against the virus?
2. How can you balance your studies with your free time when you're at home?

Quick and wise action (P4-5)

Pre-reading
1. Do you think China moved quickly enough to deal with this epidemic (疫情)?
2. What do you know about the epidemic?

While reading
Choose the answer:
1. When did China set up the daily reporting system?
A. At the end of Dec 2019.     C. On Jan 8.
B. On Jan 5.                 D. On Jan 11.

2. What is the second paragraph mainly about?
A. When the epidemic broke out.
B. How China responded to the outbreak.
C. What the expert team did in Wuhan.
D. How news about the epidemic was released.

3. What does the underlined “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Relevant information.
B. The genome sequence.
C. The new virus.
D. A detailed paper.

4. According to Margaret Chan, we know that _____.
A. China has set a good example for fighting the virus
B. China hasn’t followed WHO standards
C. Other countries failed to respond properly to the epidemic
D. Other countries don’t need to adopt strict measures

Words in use
Fill in the blanks: 
1. We would like to see ___________(密切的合作) between parents and schools.
2. Is the global situation today ________(和……相比) that of 10 years ago?
3. I set up the computer ________(以便) I can work at home.

Post reading
What “grade” would you give the government in fighting the epidemic? 
Do you think it has done a good job, an average job or a poor job?

Translation troubles (P7)

Pre-reading
1. Do you often use translation apps?
2. Do you think these apps are always correct?

While reading
Answer the questions:
1. What is the purpose of mentioning “crottin de chevre”?
__________________________
2. What improvements have been made in translation   technology?
__________________________
3. According to Cooper, a human translator is better at ___________________.
4. What does the BBC report tell us? 
__________________________
5. According to the story, how can learning a foreign language benefit people?
__________________________

Words in use
根据中文提示完成下列句子：
1.每面镜子都几乎可以设计成任何形状和尺寸。
Each can _________ to almost any shape or size.
2. 在过去的一个世纪，我们的环境已经改善了很多。
Our environment has seen _____________ over the past century.
3. 从你们的交流我可以得知，你真的惹上麻烦了。
Through your __________, I can see that you’re in real trouble.

Post reading
Artificial intelligence (人工智能) is becoming more widely-used. After reading the article, do you think artificial intelligence can help us translate different languages or even replace human translators? Why or why not?

答案与解析
P2：World takes caution
While reading
1.D。从文中第一段最后一句可知，是upgrade，升级而非degrade降级，因此A错。从第二段第二句可知，韩国的感染人数是6,088，但并未提及韩国死亡人数，因此B错。从第二段只可知韩国和意大利分别感染的总人数，并未提及一天内的新增病患人数，因此C错。从第二段最后一句可知，尼日利亚等国的感染者，都和意大利有关，因此D正确。
2.B。第三段讲的是过去几天病患数的持续增长和波及国家数量的增长，是明显十分让人担忧的。因此，这就是WHO将新冠病毒风险等级提高的原因，所以，B选项正确。
3.C。从文中第五段第一句得知，中国CDC是为了分享新冠病毒的控制和防护信息而将手册翻译成英法两种语言，继而和全世界分享中国的防空信息和经验，因此C选项正确。
4.D。从最后一段可知，对新冠病毒的自我保护有以下几点：1，勤洗手；2，勤用消毒剂清理表面；3，避免发烧或咳嗽时旅行；4，咳嗽或打喷嚏时用布遮掩；5，如果自己年龄超过60，则需要特别小心警惕自己的身体状况。因此，D选项错误，并不是和超过60岁的人交谈小心，WHO是让60岁以上老人注意自身健康。
Words in use
1. positive
2. concern
3. confirmed

P4-5：Quick and wise action
While reading
1.D。从文中第二段第四行看出，1月8号确认新冠病毒是疫情的起因，三天后，中国就成立了每天向公众报告疫情发展的模式。因此，D为正确选项。
2.B。第二段第一句讲了疫情爆发的时间，随后整段都讲了中国对疫情爆发的处理，因此，B为正确选项。
3.B。从第三段第二句开头可知，中国很快就分析出了病毒的基因序列，并且把序列结果报告给WHO，这样，其他国家也能使用这个基因序列来共同开展研究，并且开发药物。因此，这里的“it”代指的就是基因序列。
4.A。最后一段陈冯富珍说，中国已经为其他国家防护和控制疫情设立了一个新的标准，并且没有任何一个其他国家可以在规模、速度、公开度和透明度上可以与中国相媲美。因此，A选项正确，陈冯富珍高度陈赞了中国，中国为全世界的抗疫做出了表率。
Words in use
1. close cooperation 
2. comparable to 
3. so that

P7：Translation troubles
While reading
1. To show that there can be mistranslations when you use translation apps. 
从文中第二段和第三段可以看出，谷歌翻译的这些词并不能用来代替人工翻译，因为会引起误解，特别是商业等方面的翻译，不能接受任何误翻。
2. There have been big improvements in accuracy. 
从文中第四段第一句得知，一种新的翻译科技已经在精确度上取得了巨大的进步，因此，答案为big improvements in accuracy。
3. making translations sound natural and capturing someone’s sentiment 
从文中倒数第四段Cooper的话中可知，Cooper认为，如果你需要和读者发展一个关系，那你就需要一个真人翻译来让翻译出来的话显得自然，并能精确捕捉情绪。因此，答案从原文“make it sound natural and capture the sentiment”就能得出。
4. Foreign language skills are still in high demand in the labor market.
从文中倒数第三段第一句BBC的报告可知，也许这就是外语技能在劳务市场仍然有大量需求的原因。因此，答案从原文“foreign language skills are still in high demand in the labor market”就能得出。
5. It can help them find jobs and learn about the culture of other countries. 
从文中倒数第三段最后一句可知，75%的制造公司需要有外语技能的雇员，因此find jobs是一方面。另外，从文中最后一段第一句可知，你需要懂一个国家的语言，才能了解一个国家并且探索其文化，因此learn about the culture of other countries是另一方面。
Words in use：
1. be designed
2. a big improvement 
3. communication