一、外刊阅读做高考语法填空：An experimental antiviral medication might help fight the newcoronavirusBy Nicole Wetsman Feb 4, 2020, 5:25pm ESTA single case study isn’t enough to prove anything. It’s not clear if the medication, called remdesivir, actually helped the patient, or if his improvement was a c oincidence. But it’s one of a few drugs, （1）______ （include）a combination of anti-HIV drugs, （2）________ doctors think might help patients with the new coronavirus.Remdesivir was developed by the pharmaceutical company Gilead as a treatment （3）_____ Ebola. It’s a broad-spectrum antiviral drug, and it blocks the activity of a protein that helps coronaviruses make copies of themselves. Research groups identified the drug as a potential candidate for the treatment of coronaviruses in the aftermath of the 2012 MERS outbreak, （4）______ another new coronavirus spread through the Middle East. In cell models, it blocks the activity of MERS, SARS (a 2002 coronavirus), and other coronaviruses that are found in bats.Tests on the new coronavirus show that remdesivir blocks (5) _____ activity, too, at least in the lab. That result, (6) ______(couple) with the positive outcomes in the Washington patient, were enough for Gilead to launch a larger clinical trial of the drug in new coronavirus patients. The company will test it in a group of 270 patients at China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing — one group will (7) ______ (give) the drug, and one group will be given a placebo.The drug isn’t approved by the Food and Drug Administration or by any otherregulatory body. (8) ______, it already went through safety testing during the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and 2015. That’s why Gilead is ab le to test it in sick patients (9) ___________(immediate).The importance of those previous studies was emphasized by Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in a press conference last week. Researchers aren’t starting from zero because work over the past two decades tested drugs in cells, animals, and individual patients. Now, researchers who have devoted their professional lives to this work face new urgency around the mostimportant question: if the drugs actually work in people. “There’s no proven therapy for coronavirus infections,” Fauci said.The results from the remdesivir trial aren’t expected until the end of April, and it could turn out that none of the drugs under investigation are effective in treating the new virus. But that there are options (10) ______(avail) — and available so quickly —is a testament to all the research that’s been done before.二、参考答案：1-5. including which for when its6-10. coupled be given However immediately available三、重点讲解：1.medicate英[ˈmedɪkeɪt]美[ˈmedɪkeɪt]v. to give sb medicine, especially a drug that affects their behaviour给…用药(尤指影响行为的药物);用药物治疗You've insisted we medicate him without psycho therapy.你坚持不让我们给他做心理治疗。

medication英[ˌmedɪˈkeɪʃn]美[ˌmedɪˈkeɪʃn]n.a drug or another form of medicine that you take to prevent or to treat an illness药;药物She set the alarm so she'd wake up in time to give her two sons their medication.她定了闹钟，以便及时醒来给两个儿子服药。

2.常用关于新冠肺炎的医疗方面英语practice medicine行医study medicine学医give sb medicine给…开药take medicine服药use medicine用药novel /new coronavirus(2019-nCoV) /kə,rəunə'vaiərəs/ 新型冠状病毒pneumonia /njuːˈməʊniə/ 肺炎pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus /novel coronavirus-caused pneumonia 新型冠状病毒感染的肺炎confirmed case确诊病例确诊病例suspected case 疑似病例patient in critical condition重症患者fatality rate 病死率close contact 密切接触者be under medical observation 接受医学观察quarantine/ˈkwɒrəntiːn/ 隔离incubation/ˌɪŋkjuˈbeɪʃn/period 潜伏期human-to-human transmission 人传染人droplet/ˈdrɒplət/transmission飞沫传播fever, cough and difficulty in breathing 发热、咳嗽、呼吸困难acute/əˈkjuːt/respiratory/rəˈspɪrətri/infection symptom 急性呼吸道感染病状imported case 输入性病例secondary infection case二代病例asymptomatic/ˌeɪsɪmptəˈmætɪk/infection 隐性感染epidemic/ˌepɪˈdemɪk/ prevention and control 疫情防控(face) mask 口罩protective clothing/suits 防护服goggles 护目镜disposable gloves 一次性手套medical supplies 医疗物资vaccine 疫苗Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)国际关注的突发公共卫生事件the lockdown of a city/a city is on lockdown 封城六、原文翻译An experimental antiviral medication might help fight the new coronavirus一种实验性的抗病毒药物可能有助于对抗新的冠状病毒A single case study isn’t enough to prove anything. It’s not clear if the medication, called remdesivir, actually helped the patient, or if his improvement was a c oincidence But it’s one of a few drugs, including a combination of anti-HIV drugs, that doctors think might help patients with the new coronavirus.一个案例研究不足以证明什么。