疫情相关高考英语时文阅读（四篇15题，附答案）

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疫情期间多品牌推出"社交隔离版"logo

It‘s not just people that are social distancing. Brands are doing it too.

McDonald‘s, Coca-Cola, Audi and Volkswagen are just a few of the big companies that are interpreting "social distancing" with logo redesigns.

The term has become popular recently because of the spread of the novel coronavirus. Social distancing means standing 6 feet apart from others in an effort to lower the risk of being infected.

The messages and logos created to promote social distancing have pros and cons, according to two experts in the design field.

"Our current global situation is no joke. It‘s a serious matter," Douglas Sellers, executive creative director for firm Siegel Gale told CNN Business.

"And brands designing social distancing logos have the potential to diminish the severity of what we are going through. The creativity, passion, and thought that goes into wanting to help, educate, and be part of the physical distancing movement is a worthy note," Sellers said.

Brian Braiker, the editor-in-chief of Ad Age, says it‘s time for brands to provide a "real, meaningful service," referencing companies like the Gap making masks for healthcare workers or LVMH, the parent company of Christian Dior and Givenchy, manufacturing hand sanitizer(洗手液)

"Understanding the situation, shutting up and doing something helpful is really the only way to go here. When you see brands like McDonald‘s or Coca-Cola spacing out their logos in ‘solidarity,‘ it strikes a sour note," he told CNN Business.

McDonald‘s Brazil

Last week, McDonald‘s Brazil pulled apart its iconic golden arches in a picture posted to its Facebook page. The ad agency explained that despite the temporary separation between its customers and the company caused by closures of some of its restaurants, they "can always be together." McDonald‘s is offering food through delivery and drive-thru.

The McDonald‘s ad sparked backlash, including from Senator Bernie Sanders, who tweeted Wednesday about the company‘s sick leave policy for its employees.

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola is currently running an ad in New York‘s deserted Times Square that shows each letter of its

logo separated with the slogan "Staying apart is the best way to stay united." The brand typically celebrates togetherness and love in its ads.

Audi and Volkswagen

Two companies that share ownership, Audi and Volkswagen, changed their logos for their social media accounts.

Audi separated its four rings in a short video telling people to stay at home and keep their distance.

Volkswagen also promoted a similar video with inspirational messages and separated the V and W.

1. Why did the brands such as McDonald‘s Coca-cola etc. redesign their logos?

A.Because they want to tell the people to keep distance to protect themselves from being infected by novel coronavirus.

B. Because they don‘t like their logos any more.

C. Because they want to tell sell new products.

D. Because they want to draw more attention from the public.

2. From what Brian Braiker, the editor-in-chief of Ad Age says , we can make a conclusion that_____.

A. It is very helpful to redesign the brand logos.

B. Rather than redesign brand logos the company should do something practical.

C. Brian Baker is so supportive to redesign the brand logos.

D The companies like Gap made hand sanitizer.

3. In order to tell people to stay home and keep social distance what did two companies Audi and Volkswagen do with their Logos?

A. Audi separated its four rings and so did Volkswagen with the V and W in a short video .

B. They put up a post with separated four rings and the V and W.

C. They put newly-designed logos on their products.

D. They ran an ad in New York‘s deserted Times Square.

B

新西兰封城违规举报网站因举报太踊跃而瘫痪

So many New Zealanders have reported their neighbours to the authorities for breaking lockdown rules that a new police website to record such incidents crashed.

More than 2,000 people rang an emergency police line last week to report rule-breakers. As a result, a dedicated website was set up in the hope it would dissuade them from ringing 111.

But since going live on Sunday the website has crashed at least once due to high demand, and registered more than 4,000 reports of bad behaviour – including people playing rugby or frisbee, and holding impromptu "corona parties".

Police commissioner Mike Bush said the "vast majority" of New Zealanders were complying with lockdown rules, and were "passionate and determined" to make others toe the lineas well.

Three people had been detained for ignoring the rules, and one person remained in police custody, Bush said. Campervans with tourists travelling the country has been a persistent problem and it was "concerning" to see hundreds of people out on Wellington waterfront – an issue that may need further attention, the commissioner warned.

Although some incidents have drawn genuine police attention – such as bonfires at Muriwai beach and backpacker parties in Queenstown – other reported incidents were not a problem, including joggers and dog-walkers sticking to their own neighbourhoods – exercise that has been permitted by the prime minister.

A police spokesperson said: "Not every one of these over 4,000 reports will result in a visit from police. For example, some are reports of people jogging or walking past. People are of course allowed to do this within their own neighbourhoods. We have been attending where there are large groups of people gathering."

However, there remains confusion and debate as to what activities are permitted under lockdown, with some people under the impression that they cannot leave their homes under any circumstances, while others are continuing to walk, surf, run and play golf.

"You need to stay in your bubble," a man screamed at an Auckland woman and her family on Browns Bay beach over the weekend, in a video posted online. "You‘re putting everyone at risk."

Many New Zealanders reported similar instances of verbal abuse while out and about in their neighbourhood, and some say community Facebook pages had become full of abuse and threats.

The Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand, a charity, said on its website the lockdown was "scary" for many people: "It‘s a tense time for most of us".

A numbers of District Health Boards (DHBs) around the country have also issued pleas for New Zealanders to stop abusing confirmed Covid-19 cases online.

New Zealand has 589 confirmed cases of coronavirus, and a number of "clusters" had begun to emerge, the prime minister said, including from an Auckland pub, a wedding and a recent conference.

4 .Why was a dedicated website set up by the police?

A. Because the emergency line of the police crashed.

B. Because the police website crashed.

C. Because the police wanted to encourage people to report the role breakers.

D. Because the police wanted to stop people from ringing 111.

5 What kind of report can draw the attention of the police?

A. Some people jog past in the neighborhood.

B. People with their family take a short walk outside.

C. People walk their dogs in the neighborhood.

D. Bonfires at Muriwai beach and backpacker parties in Queenstown

6 What does" toe the line" mean in paragraph 4?

A. Follow the rules.

B. Break the rules.

C. Stand on the line.

D. Step on the line with one foot

7 From the passage, we can know that___.

A. All people follow the lockdown rules well in New Zealand.

B. Not all people follow the lockdown rules in New Zealand.

C. The police force the people to stay home in New Zealand.

D. People live their lives as usual in New Zealand.

C

你也许想读一读这些和大瘟疫有关的书

Fiction

Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939) by Katherine Ann Porter is a short novel set during the influenza pandemic of 1918, which killed five times as many Americans as did World War I. Its main character, Miranda, is a young reporter who falls in love with a soldier; the book‘s fever-dream style captures the experience of the disease.

The Andromeda Strain (1969) by Michael Crichton is a bestselling techno-thriller that begins when a military satellite crashes to earth and releases an extraterrestrial organism that kills almost everyone in a nearby small town. Then things get bad.

Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel García Márquez is the great Colombian author‘s beguiling tale of a 50-year courtship, in which lovesickness is as debilitating and stubborn as disease.

The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood, which includes Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013), is a masterwork of speculative fiction by the author of The Handmaid‘s Tale. Set in a near future in which genetic engineering causes a plague that almost destroys humanity, it‘s savagely satirical, thrilling and moving.

The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, beautifully written, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set after an unspecified extinction event has wiped out most of humanity. An unnamed man and boy travel on foot toward a southern sea, fending off cannibals and despair.

Nemesis (2010) by Philip Roth is the author‘s 31st and last novel, a sorrowful story set in Newark, N.J., in 1944, as the United States is in the grip of the polio epidemic that killed and disabled thousands of children.

Station Eleven (2014) by Emily St. John Mandel is a bestselling novel about a group of actors and musicians traveling through the Great Lakes region in future years after a mysterious pandemic called the Georgian influenza has killed almost everyone.

Nonfiction

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1995) by Laurie Garrett is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter‘s clear-eyed look at how rapidly the modern world has changed the nature of disease, how important preparedness is and how endangered we are without it.

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (2013) by David Quammen is the great science writer‘s fascinating look at zoonotic diseases, such as AIDS and Ebola (and now coronavirus), that jump from animal species to ours.

8. Which book is about a sad story of children who were killed or disabled?

A. Pale Horse, Pale Rider

B. Love in the Time of Cholera

C. The Andromeda Strain

D. Nemesis

9. Which book is Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ?

A. Pale Horse, Pale Rider

B. The Coming Plague

C. Station Eleven

D. The Road

10. How many books refer to influenza?

A Only one B Two

C Three D More than three

11. Which book refers to diseases that jump from animal species to ours?

A. Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

C. Love in the Time of Cholera

D. The MaddAddam Trilogy

D

首架载有防疫物资的飞机从中国抵达美国

First aircraft carrying medical supplies from China arrives in U.S.

An aircraft carrying personal protective equipment donated by China, along with U.S.-purchased medical supplies, arrived in New York on March 29.

The plane is the first in a series of flights over the next 30 days organized by the White House to help fight the coronavirus, the White House said. Most of the purchases are from Asia including Malaysia and Vietnam.

The Chinese Embassy in the U.S. retweeted a report from Axios, which said that 12 million gloves, 130,000 N-95 masks, 1.7 million surgical masks, 50,000 gowns, 130,000 hand sanitizer units, and 36,000 thermometers from China have arrived in the United States.

Along with the goods, Chinese company Huawei donated 10,000 masks, 20,000 articles of protective clothing, 10,000 gloves and 50,000 goggles to New York state.

Governor Andrew Cuomo confirmed the donation and thanked Huawei on Twitter.

The plane was funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It landed at John F. Kennedy airport carrying gloves, gowns and masks for distribution in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, three hard-hit states battling to care for a crush of coronavirus patients.

The airlift is a product of a team led by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, which formed "Project Airbridge," a partnership between large U.S. healthcare distributors such as McKesson Corp, Cardinal, Owens & Minor, Medline and Henry Schein Inc, and the federal government.

The flight from Shanghai was the first of about 20 flights to arrive between now and early April, according to the White House. Additional flights will carry similargear from China, Malaysia and Vietnam.

A total of 142,106 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the U.S. on Sunday, according to the latest statistics released by Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 2,479 people have died from the virus in the country while 2,686 patients have recovered.

12. From the passage we know that___.

A. All good on the plane are donated by China.

B. All goods on the plane are purchased from China.

C. All good on the plane are donated by Huawei.

D. Some of the goods on the plane are from donation while others are purchased from China.

13. Which is not the hard-hit states battling to treat coronavirus patients?

A. New York B. New Jersey

C. Connecticut D. California

14. Who built " Product Airbridge" between large U.S. healthcare distributors and the federal government?

A The federal government

B A team led by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner

C Large U.S. healthcare distributors

D White House senior adviser Jared Kushner

15. What does "gear" mean in paragraph 9 ?

A Equipment B Parts of the machine

C Medicine D Food

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