When is Sara’s car supposed to arrive?
A.At 3:20 pm. B.At 3:40 pm. C.At 4:00 pm.
Why does the woman come to the man?
A.To walk with him.
B.To get a job.
C.To give him notice.
What does the woman want to do?
A.Live close to her workplace.
B.Rent out her apartment.
C.Find a job near home.
假设你是李津，你的英国朋友David给你发邮件询问你中国抗击新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情的情况并想知道你在疫情期间是怎么度过的。请你根据下列要点写一封邮件回复他，主要内容包括:
(1)如何抗疫及成效；
(2)你怎么度过及现状；
(3)你的感受。
注意:
(1)开头结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数；
(2)词数:不少于100词。
参考词汇:疫情 epidemic situation; 新冠肺炎 Covid-19
Dear David,
I’m glad to receive your email.
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Yours,
Li Jin
阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
I returned to Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, after college graduation. I had been there before my mother became a minister.
Two weeks later, I told my mother I was bored. She said, “Here’re the car keys. Go and buy some fruit.” Delighted, I jumped into the car and speeded off.
Seeing me or rather my car, a boy quickly ran up to me, eager to sell his bananas and nuts. “Banana 300 naira. Nuts 200 naira!” I bargained him down to 200 total for the fruit and nuts. When he agreed, I handed him a 500 naira note. He didn’t have change, so I told him not to worry. He said thanks and smiled a row of perfect teeth.
When, two weeks later, I ran into this same boy, I was more aware of my position in Nigerian society where it wasn’t that uncommon to see a little boy who should have been in school selling fruit in the burning sun. My parents had raised me to be aware of the advantage we had been afforded and the responsibility it brought to us.
“What’s up?”I asked him. “I…I don’t have money to buy books.” I took out two 500 naira notes. He looked around nervously before taking the money. One thousand naira means a lot to a family that makes only 50,000 each year.
The next morning, an officer told me, “In this place, when you give a little, people think you’re a fountain of chance.” Possibly it’s right, but this happens everywhere in the world. I wondered if my little friend had actually used the money for books.
After six months’ work in northern Nigeria, I returned and saw him again standing on the road.
“Are you in school now?” I asked.
He nodded.
A silence fell as we looked at each other, and then I realized what he wanted. I held out a 500 naira note. “Take this.” He shook his head fiercely and stepped back as if hurt. “What’s wrong? I asked. “It’s a gift.”
Shaking his head again, he handed me a basket of bananas and nuts before he said, “I’ve been waiting to give these to you.”
1.What happened when the author met the boy for the first time? (No more than 15 words)
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2.What do the underlined words “ran into” in Paragraph 4 mean? (No more than 5 words)
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3.What was the author’s impression of Nigerian society? (No more than 20 words)
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4.Why did the author give two 500 naira notes to the boy? (No more than 10 words)
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5.What do you learn from the boy? (No more than 15 words)
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You’ve probably heard such reports. The number of college students majoring in the humanities (人文学科) is decreasing quickly. The news has caused a flood of high-minded essays criticizing the development as a symbol of American decline.
The bright side is this: The destruction of the humanities is, finally, coming to an end. No more will literature, as part of an academic curriculum, put out the light of literature. No longer will the reading of, say, “King Lear” or D.H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love” result in the annoying stuff of multiple-choice quizzes, exam essays and homework assignments.
The discouraging fact is that for every college professor who made Shakespeare or Lawrence come alive for the lucky few, there were countless others who made the reading of literary masterpieces seem like two hours in the dentist’s chair.
The remarkably insignificant fact that, a half-century ago, 14% of the undergraduate population majored in the humanities (mostly in literature, but also in art, philosophy, history, classics and religion) as opposed to 7% today has given rise to serious reflections on the nature and purpose of an education in the liberal arts.
Such reflections always come to the same conclusion: We are told that the lack of a formal education, mostly in literature, leads to numerous harmful personal conditions, such as the inability to think critically, to write clearly, to be curious about other people and places, to engage with great literature after graduation, to recognize truth, beauty and goodness.
Literature changed my life long before I began to study it in college. Books took me far from myself into experiences that had nothing to do with my life, yet spoke to my life. But once in the college classroom, this precious, alternate life inside me got thrown back into that dimension of my existence that bored me. Homer, Chekhov and Yeats were reduced to right and wrong answers, clear-cut themes and clever interpretations. If there is anything to worry about, it should be the disappearance of what used to be an important part of every high-school education: the literature survey course, where books were not academically taught but thoroughly introduced-an experience unaffected by stupid commentary and useless testing.
The literary classics are places of quiet, useless stillness in a world that despises (鄙视) any activity that is not profitable or productive. Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read.
Soon, if all goes well and literature at last disappears from the undergraduate curriculum-my fingers are crossed-increasing numbers of people will be able to say that reading the literary masterworks of the past outside the college classroom, simply in the course of living, was, in fact, their college classroom.
1.The sharp drop in the number of majors in the humanities ________.
A.has given rise to quite a shock in the intellectual world
B.promises the remarkable destruction of the humanities
C.shows more people read literature outside the classroom
D.has caused the author to reflect on the nature of literary creation
2.The author mentions “two hours in the dentist’s chair” in Paragraph 3 to indicate that ________.
A.the average literature class in college is two hours long
B.reading literary works is made unbearable by professors
C.it actually does not take long to read the classics of literature
D.college students don’t spend much time on literary masterworks
3.According to the author, the problem of literature teaching lies in the fact that ________.
A.It is a relatively recent phenomenon in education
B.literature teaching is not profitable or productive
C.people are interested in something more practical
D.it is turned into a soulless competition for grades
4.Which of the following opinions may the author hold?
A.The disappearance of literature should be strongly applauded.
B.Literature teaching can improve our critical thinking ability.
C.Reading literature doesn’t require specialized knowledge and skills.
D.Literature should be taught through analyzing different writing styles.
5.What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A.To urge college students to read more literary classics.
B.To introduce the present situation of literature teaching.
C.To voice his opinion on the shrinkage of literature teaching.
D.To show his serious concern for college literature teaching.
6.The overall tone of the passage is ________.
A.skeptical B.sympathetic C.aggressive D.straightforward
