【正文】 第 I 卷 第一部分 閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，滿分 40 分） 第一節(jié)（共 15 小題；每小題 2 分，滿分 30 分） 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（ A、 B、 C 和 D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。 A My doorbell rings at 11 . On the step, I find an elderly Chinese lady. She is small and slight. She holds a paper carrier bag in her hands. I know this lady. It is by no means her first visit. Her daughter, Nicole, bought the house next door last October. Nicole, who is currently in Shanghai, has apparently told her mother that I am having heart surgery shortly, and the result is that her mother has decided I need to be supplied with meals. I know what is inside the paper carrier bag — a stainlesssteel container with a meal of rice, vegetables and either chicken, meat or shrimp. This has bee an almostdaily occurrence. Communication between my benefactor (恩人 )and me is somewhat handicapped by the fact that she doesn?t speak English and all I can say in Mandarin is “hello”. Once, she brought an iPad and pointed to the screen, which displayed a message from Nicole telling me that her mother wanted to know if the food was all right. “Your mother just can?t be bringing me meals like this all the time” I protested. “I can hardly reciprocate by cooking something from my native land, like roast beef or Yorkshire pudding for her” I said. “Oh， no,” Nicole said. “Don?t worry about that. She has to cook for the family anyway, and she wants to do it for you. You can call her Wing, which is her surname.” The tenant in my basement suite is a university student who speaks Mandarin quite well, so with her help, I have found out that Wing is 68—13 years younger than I am — and that she lived through the Cultural Revolution. For my part, I was raised in wartime Britain. So here we are, two grandmothers a world away from where we were raised, neither of us able to speak the other?s language. But the doorbell keeps ringing and there is the familiar paper earner bag, handed smilingly to me by Wing. Right now I am working on some more Mandarin words—it?s the least I can do after such a display of kindness. “Thank you” is, of course， the first one, which somehow seems inadequate. 1. The author and Wing got to know each other . A. as next door neighbors B. when exchanging meals C. by sharing similar experiences D. after using an iPad to municate 2. The underlined word “reciprocate” in Paragraph 5 probably means . A. do as well B. offer generously C. give in return D. accept with pleasure 3. The author?s effort to learn Mandarin shows her . A. great satisfaction B. real kindness C. heartfelt thanks D. sincere friendship B It?s not what you look at that matters。 it?s what you see. ——Henry David Thoreau Slow Art Day is a global event with a simple mission: help more people discover for themselves the joy of looking at and loving art. Why slow? When people look slowly at a piece of art， they make discoveries. The most important discovery they make is that they can see and experience art without an expert. And that?s an exciting discovery. It unlocks passion and creativity and helps to create more art lovers. How does it work? One day each year, people all over the world visit local museums and galleries to look at art slowly. Participants look at five works of art for 10 minutes each and then meet together over lunch to talk about their experience. That^ it. Simple by design, the goal is to focus on the art. In fact, Slow Art Day works quite well this way. By the numbers Over 1,200 individual Slow Art Day events have taken place since its official launch in 2020. Slow Art Day events have taken place on all seven continents. 700 venues (museums, galleries, artist studios, sculpture parks, public art sites, etc.) have hosted Slow Art Day events. Participants love Slow Art Day Feedback on this simple event has been overwhelmingly positive. Here?s a sample: “I loved taking the time to just ?be? with the works, particularly pieces I might otherwise walk by. It?s a much better way of doing the art museum than the usual idle ramble. D