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Who is the woman most probably?

A. The man’s mother.    B. The man’s boss.    C. The man’s colleague.

What does the man mean?

A. The problems are hard for him too.

B. He has dealt with all the problems.

C. The woman should make a good plan.

When is the supermarket closed on weekends?

A. At 9:00 pm.    B. At 10:00 pm.    C. At 11:00 pm.

请阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

A post titled“Goodness, what have I done wrong to have to do homework with my kids！” caused a tremendous response in the society.

After millions of views on Sina Weibo, parents flocked to social media to share their own frustrating stories and experiences screaming and shouting their way through homework with their kids.

Now, millions of parents in China are calling for something that China’s tiger mothers would have considered unthinkable only a few years ago - a break from homework.

Education chiefs are already fighting back against challenging workloads, with officials in the eastern Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and also the northern Ningxia province, ruling that homework should not become “parental homework” or be set “above the level of the curriculum or the ability of the student”.

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1. 用约30个单词概述上述信息的主要内容;

2. 用约120个单词谈谈“父母陪孩子做作业”所带来的负面影响，内容包括：

⑴ 父母陪孩子做作业会带来哪些负面影响（至少两点）；

⑵ 结合自身经历或见闻举例说明其负面影响。

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1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；

2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3. 不必写标题。

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内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

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Ants: master cooperators

Millions of ants live together in a colony, but they don’t compete, get confused, or become disorganized. They behave in an amazing orderly manner at all times. Some scientists refer to ants as ‘super-organisms’ because they live in such highly organized societies that work together to survive. The way ants live and work together has made them one of the most important creatures on the planet.

Ants, like bees, belong to a class of eusocial insects. Eusocial insects are broken into groups within their community, and each group has a special job to do depending on the needs of the community. There are three basic groups in an ant colony: queens, soldiers, and workers. Queens are the largest ants, and their only job is to reproduce—they lay all of the eggs that will eventually become soldiers and workers. Soldiers are responsible for protecting the colony and finding new places for nests. Worker ants have many jobs within the community, including caring for the eggs and young ants, hunting for food and maintaining the nest.

Some scientists are studying how ants can lead to a better understanding of labor issues, social class, and the use of nature resources in human communities. Ants have had millions of years of practice in working together to survive and grow. For a colony to function successfully, ants have to cooperate, from which people can learn a lot. Researchers hope that gathering information about how ants live together in communities can help people learn to cooperate and compromise with each other.

However, others argue that there are fundamental differences between ants and humans that mean human societies are unlikely ever to attain ant-like levels of collaboration. For example, ants in a colony don’t compete with each other. When they are short of food in the colony, some worker ants automatically become ‘feeder’ ants and feed others with the food in their stomach, regardless of their usual job. When the food supply is replenished, they become worker ants again.

In addition, ants are able to work together without a leader giving them directions. Despite their names, queen ants are not leaders. Instead, ants find out what they need to do from their sense of smell. Research on harvester ants pass each other, they pick up a chemical smell which tells them what the other ant is doing. The number of ants they pass doing a particular job determines what they need to do. It is a form of communication, but unlike human communication it has no content; it is just based on numbers.

While ants undoubtedly have a great deal to teach us about organization and the structure of networks, those searching for a greater understanding of human behaviour and morals may need to look somewhere.