山西省忻州市静乐县第一中学2019-2020学年高二下学期第一次月考英语试卷word版.docVIP

英语试题 本试卷满分为150（120×1.25）分,考试时间为100分钟 第一卷（选择题 共70分） 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节,满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分,满分30分） 一、阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。 A The sudden rise of the new coronavirus has shocked China. Although China has been doing everything possible to stop the virus, it has spread outside of its borders and into other regions. There are now confirmed cases of COVID-19 in countries including the UK, Japan, Germany, Vietnam, Russia and the United States. There is a growing fear that the effects of the outbreak will worsen if it is not contained. This has led to countries closing borders with China and putting travel bans in place, hoping to protect their own citizens. However, fear and misinformation have also caused the spread of something else – racism . Restaurants and businesses in many tourist areas across the world have posted signs banning Chinese people. Social media users recently shared a picture of a sign outside a hotel in Rome, Italy. The sign said that “all people coming from China” were “not allowed” in the hotel. Similar signs with anti-Chinese sentiment (情绪) were also reportedly seen in South Korea, the UK, Malaysia and Canada. These signs were loud and clear – “No Chinese”. Racist actions such as these do a lot more harm than good. “My ethnicity (种族渊源) has made me feel like I was part of a threatening and diseased mass ,” Sam Phan, a master’s student at the University of Manchester, wrote to the Guardian. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, an assistant professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, has experience working on health issues that involve international borders. “As human beings, we are afraid of the things we don’t know, but our response should be to educate ourselves, not to further spread fears and misunderstandings,” she said. Bracho-Sanchez suggested that the media should “stick to the facts”. Phan shared a similar view: “It’s important to see us in all our diversity , as individual human beings, and to challenge stereotypes (刻板印象