Name: _Pan Mickey______________ ( 14 ) Marks:

______/40
Class: _J203___________________
Extensive Reading 1st Semester (Junior Level)
Authorized Stamp: (3 marks)
Author’s name:_Yaroslav Lukov_____________________________
(1 mark)

Book’s name: _Covid in China: Million in lockdown in Wuhan after

four cases__________________________________________
(1 mark)
No. Vocabulary Word Chinese English Meaning Sentence Example
(5 marks) Form Meaning (5 marks) (5 marks)
(5 marks) (5 marks)
0. stagger verb 摇晃地走 to walk or move with After he was attacked, he managed to
difficulty as if you are stagger to the phone and call for help.
going to fall

1. district noun 区域 an area of a country or An upsurge in violence in the district has

town that has fixed
borders that are used been linked to increased unemployment.
for official purposes,
or that has a particular
feature that makes it
different from
surrounding areas
2. asymptomatic adjective 无症状的 showing no symptoms Evidence suggests that many Ebola
of a particular disease
infections are asymptomatic.

3. strategy noun 策略 a detailed plan for The president held an emergency

achieving success in
situations such as war, meeting to discuss military strategy with
politics, business,
industry, or sport, or the Pentagon yesterday.
the skill of planning
for such situations
4. harsh noun 严酷；严 unpleasant, unkind, The children had had a harsh upbringing.
厉 cruel, or more severe
than is necessary
5. restrictive adjective 限制性的 limiting the freedom The college is not able to expand
of someone or
preventing something because of restrictive planning laws.
from growing

6. impose verb 推行；强 to officially force a Very high taxes have recently been
制实行 rule, tax, punishment,
etc. to be obeyed or imposed on cigarettes.
received

7. frequent adjective 常发生的 often happening A frequent criticism of the proposal has
been its high cost.

8. unbearable adjective 无法忍受 too painful or The atmosphere at work at the moment
unpleasant for you to
continue to experience is almost unbearable.

9. evidence noun 证据；证 one or more reasons one or more reasons for believing that
明 for believing that
something is or is not something is or is not true.
true

10. virologist noun 病毒学家 virologist The world-leading virologist has joined

the new EU COVID-19 advisory team.

2. Do you like the ending of the story that you have read? Why? (10 marks) (more than 50 words)

No, I don’t like the ending of the story that I have read. It is because there are almost one million people in a

the suburb of Wuhan - China's central city where the coronavirus was first recorded - have been placed under

lockdown and there are so many people who die because of the virus.