最新英语新闻解读与练习23（有答案）

最新英语新闻解读与练习23（学案） Russia supports China's fight against outbreak Staff members work in a laboratory in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, Feb 13, 2020. As a designated service provider of nucleic acid detection of the novel coronavirus, KingMed Diagnostics laboratory in Wuhan conducts non-stop detection service and detects over 2,000 samples from various cities in Hubei province every day. [Photo/Xinhua] Step 1 Words and expressions 1. impressive adj. 感人的；令人钦佩的；给人以深刻印象的 2. scale n. 规模；比例；鳞；刻度；天平 3. cohesion n. 凝聚；结合；[力] 内聚力 4. discipline n. 学科；纪律 5. threat n. 威胁，恐吓；凶兆 6. threaten vt. 威胁；恐吓；预示; vi. 威胁；可能来临 7. specific adj. 特殊的，特定的；明确的；详细的； 8. primarily adv. 首先；主要地，根本上 9. vaccine n. 疫苗；牛痘苗; adj. 疫苗的；牛痘的 10. strategic partner 战略伙伴 11. joint opposition to external threats 共同反对外部威胁 12. temporary quarantine measures 临时隔离措施 13. in accordance with 依照；与…一致 14. intensify vi. 增强，强化；变激烈； vt. 使加强，使强化；使变激烈 15. in the long run 从长远看 16. bioengineering technology   生物工程技术 17. pharmaceutical adj. 制药（学）的；n. 药物 18. procurement n. 采购；获得，取得 Step 2 Read through the news Measures taken by the Chinese government to fight the coronavirus epidemic are impressive. The whole world is delighted with the speed and scale of the measures taken to prevent the spread of infection, as well as the cohesion and discipline of the Chinese people facing a new health threat. I think the whole world can learn from China how to organize work to overcome an emergency, especially because the epidemic threatens humankind as a whole. We see that governments of all countries around the world have taken urgent measures to control the spread of the virus. These measures can be divided into two types: isolation from China and preparing specific measures to combat the epidemic. I consider the first direction to be useless, and, as far as I know, the World Health Organization, too, does not support it. In the second direction, work is underway in Russia, primarily to develop a vaccine against the novel