conceptualFeature Readings Covid-19(英语阅读材料)

2021年1月21日发(作者：活著)
Feature Readings ---
China’s coronavirus epidemic special


Table of Contents:


1.
2. A mother's fight for toddler stranded in China's coronavirus epicenter
3.

Questions to Think about:


# When you
read
these reports, please
think about
the following two questions:

1.
What’s the impact
of the stories on you as an ordinary reader?
makes that impact possible or what makes the reports work on you?

#
Select
your favorite one of the 3 reports, and
put
your answers
to pen
.



Knowledge accumulation

and acquisition:


#
Pick up
all the words, phrases, and terms related to COVID-19 in the three reports.





























home
Pakistan
student
in
Wuhan
misses
father's
funeral, anxiety grows


ISLAMABAD, Feb 10 (Reuters) - From his dormitory in the locked-down Chinese city of Wuhan,
PhD student Hassan spoke to his father in Pakistan for the last time on Thursday, as the 80-year-
old begged him to come home. The next day, Hassan's father died of a heart ailment.

Hassan is one of more than 1,000 Pakistani students in China's Hubei province, thought to be the
epicenter of the coronavirus, who have been told by their government that it has had to rule out
their return home for the moment.

Hassan has since stepped up his efforts to travel home as his desperation grows, having missed his
father's funeral, but received conflicting information from Pakistani officials.
time,
my
mother
needs
me,
said
the
PhD
computer
architecture
student,
who
asked
to
be
identified only by one name in order to protect his family's privacy.

His
increasing
anxiety
is
shared
by
other
Pakistani
students
in
Hubei,
some
of
whom
are
increasingly critical of their government's response to the situation.

Many other countries, including neighboring India and Bangladesh, evacuated their citizens from
Hubei province as the virus death toll rises, topping 900 on Monday.

The Pakistani students and their families, including young children, are stuck inside most of the
day.

Four students told Reuters depression and anxiety was growing, their feelings worsened by fears
of catching the virus and uncertainty as to how long the conditions would last.


make the best decision in view of all factors with ref to devastating #coronavirus potential global
pandemic,

Hassan contacted his university, who supported him leaving, and Pakistan's embassy in Beijing.
He said he was later told by Chinese authorities in Hubei that he could be evacuated if Pakistan's
embassy in Beijing contacted them, but that had not occurred.

A
Pakistani
Ministry
of
Foreign
Affairs
spokeswoman
did
not
respond
to
Reuters'
request
for
comment.

Hassan said he was then told by a Pakistani official on Monday that they were planning to evacuate
all students.

But students in Wuhan told Reuters their hopes of returning were dashed after a video conference
call between students and Pakistan's health and overseas citizens ministers on Monday afternoon
in which an imminent evacuation was ruled out.

Some of the students said Pakistani officials had suggested Pakistan did not have the necessary
quarantine facilities.