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1、疫情相關(guān)高考時文閱讀系列八 四篇 15 題附答案 導(dǎo)引：A 疫情促使印度網(wǎng)課火爆B 尼德蘭趣知識 二 C 全球抗疫民調(diào)，中國位居第一D?牛津英語詞典?收錄有關(guān)新冠新詞匯ASchools around the world have closed their doors because of the coronavirus pandemic, leaving more than 1.5 billion children stuck at home. While it's a great inconvenience for many, it has created a spike in de

2、mand for online learning.Educational institutions are introducing online courses and some education technology startups are temporarily offering free classes to help offset the impact of school closures.Take Byju's, an India-based education startup named after its founder, Byju Raveendran. In ea

3、rly March, it announced it would give children free access to its learning app, which it says had more than 40 million users at the end of last year. Around 3 million of those paid between $150 and $200 for an annual subscription.Since the announcement, the company says it has experienced a 60% surg

4、e in students using its products, which range from interactive video lessons and live classes, to quizzes and exam preparation.A nationwide lockdown, ordered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in late March, means that India's school-age population of around 300 million is suddenly having to home e

5、ducate."The outbreak is clearly increasing the appreciation of online education," Raveendran tells CNN Business. "This could be a turning point for the industry, ushering in an increased usage of this format and changing habits in terms of how kids learn and how teachers teach,"

6、he adds.Other Indian platforms, including Unacademy, Vedantu and Toppr are also offering free classes and content to students.1. What is true about Byju's?A. It is an Indian based business startup.B. After early March Byju's would offer children Online lessons for free.C. Byju's had more

7、 than 40million users at the end of this year.D. 40 million users had to pay between$150 and $200 for subscription every year.2. How many school age children are there in India?A. Around 3 million . B. More than1.5 billion.C. Around 300 million .D. More than 40million.3 How many platforms offer free

8、 classes and content to students during the nationwide lockdown?A. 1B.2C.3D.4BAccording to the 2021 United Nations World Happiness Report of 2021, the Netherlands was ranked fourth happiest country in the world. The Netherlands has the thirteenth-highest per capita income in the world, according to

9、the International Monetary Fund. Perhaps that's why it is such a happy country!There are still over 1,000 traditional working windmills in the Netherlands. 19 of these can be found at the Unesco World Heritage Site of Kinderdijk.There are 1,281 bridges in Amsterdam! There are almost no streets i

10、n the Dutch village of Giethoorn, but there are many canals, which is why it's also known as the "Venice of the Netherlands".There are more bikes (over 18 million) in the Netherlands than there are people. There are about 15,000 km of bike lanes in the Netherlands. Pedestrians are not

11、allowed to walk on the specially-designated bike lanes, found all over the country. A Dutch person will cycle 2.5 km per day on average and 900 km per year.The Netherlands are famous for their tulips, but tulips originally didn't grow there. They were imported from the Ottoman empire in the 17th

12、 century. Today, the Netherlands is the biggest producer and exporter of tulips in the world. But not just tulips. 75% of the world's flower bulbs come from the Netherlands. The famous tulip garden Keukenhof is the largest flower garden in the world.The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is the world'

13、s oldest stock exchange. The Netherlands was a founder member of the Euro, swapping their "gulden" to the euro on January 1, 1999. The Netherlands was one of the six founding members of the European Union.The Netherlands has produced many well-known painters including famous names such as

14、Rembrandt van Rijn, Vincent van Gogh, and Willem de Kooning. There are at least 22 Rembrandt painting and 206 works by Van Gogh in Amsterdam alone. There are approximately 1000 museums in the Netherlands, 42 of them situated in Amsterdam.Did you know that carrots didn't use to be orange? They we

15、re black, yellow, red, purple or white. An orange variant was made in honor of the House of Orange, that led the revolt against the Spanish and later became the Dutch Royal Family.Both Australia and New Zealand were discovered by the Dutch. Australia was named "New Holland", and New Zealan

16、d was named after the province of Zeeland. The latter is a great place to spend a weekend, by the way.4. What is special aboutthe Dutch village of Giethoorn?A. There are many traditional working windmills in the village.B. There are many tulips in the village.C. There are many well-known painters in

17、 the village.D. There are many canals and almost no streets in the village.5. From the passage, we know that_.A. People in the Netherlands like cycling.B. People in the Netherlands like driving.C. People in the Netherlands like hiking.D. People in the Netherlands like boating.6. When did the Netherl

18、ands begin to use the euro?A. On February 1 1999.B. On January 1 1999.C. On January 1 1990D. On February 1 1990.7. What is the relationship between New Zealand and Zeeland?A. The Zeeland is a place of New Zealand.B. Zeeland comes from New Zealand.C. New Zealand was named after the province of Zeelan

19、d by the DutchD. New Zealand is a province of Netherlands.CAs countries and regions across the globe are left struggling with the coronavirus crisis, most people are not satisfied with their leaders' response to the outbreak, according to a new report.Citizens from just seven out of 23 countries

20、 and regions rate their governments' coronavirus containment measures as broadly positive, based on the "Global Crisis Percepti ons" in dex released Wedn esday by in sights age ncies Blackbox Research and Toluna.The research, which surveyed about 12,500 people across 23 countries and r

21、egions between April 3 and 19, asked people to rate their countries and regions across four key indicators: political leadership, corporate leadership, com munity and media.China ran ked highest in the citize ns' survey, with a score of 85 out of 100. The world's sec on d-largest economy was

22、 followed by Vietnam (77), the United Arab Emirates (59) and India (59), in a list which saw Asian coun tries and regio ns take the top spots. New Zeala nd (56), which has received intern ati onal acclaim for its han dli ng of the virus and last week bega n eas ing restrict ions, was the only Wester

23、 n country to score higher tha n the global average of 45. Australia (43), the US (41), and all four wester n Europea n coun tries surveyed - Germa ny (41), the UK (37), Italy (36) and France (26) - all ran ked below the global average.The largely dissatisfactory response, from Western countries in

24、particular, could reflect a hit to national psyches in terms of their expectati ons about prepared ness for un expected even ts, no ted David Black, foun der and chief executive officer of Blackbox Research."For many of these countries and regions, this pandemic is unprecedented. Governments ar

25、e still coming to terms with a crisis they did not expect, and public con fide nce suffered as a result," said Black."Mea nwhile, a sig ni fica nt part of Asia has had their leadership shaped by past epidemics, such as SARS and MERS," referring to two other deadly respiratory diseases

26、 caused by strains of coronavirus that were predominantly in Asia and the Middle East, respectively.8. How many coun tries and regi ons were people surveyed from?A. 20B. 21C.22D.239. Which country ran ked the first in the citize n's survey?A. Ch inaB. Viet namC.In diaD.New Zeala nd10. What is th

27、e global average score?A. 56B. 45C.43D 4111. Which country in the wester n coun tries scored higher tha n the global average?A . Australia.B. Germa ny.C. The US.D. New Zeala nd.DWith terms such as WFH, social dista ncing and self-isolati on now in com mon ideams, the Oxford En glish Dictionary has m

28、ade an extraordinary update to include Covid-19 and words related to the pandemic in its defi nitive record of the En glish Ian guage.The dicti on ary's executive editor Bern adette Pat on said that it was "a rare experie nce for lexicographers (詞 典編纂者) to observe an exponential (指數(shù)的) rise

29、in usage of a single word in a very short period of time, and for that word to come overwhelmingly to dominate global expressions, even to the exclusion of most other topics".Covid-19 has done that, and has thus been added as a new entry in the OED, where it is described as "an acute respi

30、ratory ill ness in huma ns caused by a coron avirus, which is capable of produci ng severe symptoms and death, esp. in the elderly and others with un derly ing health con diti on s"."As someth ing of a departure, this update comes outside of our usual quarterly publicati on cycle," sa

31、id Pat on. "But these are extraordinary times, and OED lexicographers, who like many others are all working from home . are track ing the developme nt of the Ian guage of the pan demic and offeri ng a lin guistic and historical con text to their usage."The OED's analysis of more than 8

32、bn words of online news stories found that coronavirus and Covid-19, ashortening of coronavirus disease 2021, are now dominating globaldiscourse. While back in December, wordssuch as Brexit, impeachment and climate dominated news, by January, coronavirus was seeing significant use alongside current

33、affairs terms such as bushfire, koala, Iraqi, locust and assassination. By March every single word in the OED's top 20 list of keywords was related to coronavirus."In January, the words mainly relate to naming and describing the virus: coronavirus, SARS, virus, human-to-human, respiratory,

34、flu-like," said the OED in an analysis. "By March, the keywords reflect the social impact of the virus, and issues surrounding the medical response: social distancing, self-isolation and self-quarantine, lockdown, non-essential (as in non-essential travel), and postpone are all especially

35、frequent, as are PPE and ventilator."The OED's lexicographers have noticed a rise in the use of specialist medical terms and new acronyms, such as WFH and PPE. The first noted usage of working from home was in 1995, but Paton notes that "the abbreviation was known to very few before it

36、 became a way of life for so many of us". The abbreviation PPE, for personal protective equipment, dates back to 1977 but was "formerly probably restricted to healthcare and emergency professionals".Social distancing, first used in 1957, "was originally an attitude rather than a physical term, referring to an aloofness or a deliberate attempt