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段“Dr. Katharina Wittgens said a herd mentality sets in during disasters that causes people to copy the actions of others”凱瑟琳娜維特根斯博士說, 災(zāi)難發(fā)生時, 人們會產(chǎn)生一種從眾心理, 這種心理會導(dǎo)致人們模仿他人的行為。可知據(jù)專家說, 這種行為的原因是在災(zāi)難時期, 人們傾向于追隨他人的行動。故選A。4. What can be concluded from the last paragraph? A. People should not panic over the virus. B. More people die from car accidents. C. People buy little when they go to the stores. D. We should panic about the situation. 【解析】選A。推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段“She said people were taking on too much risk of dying from the virus. She said, “Far more people die in car accidents or household accidents per year but we don’t panic about these things in the morning before we go to work”她說, 人們承擔了太多死于這種病毒的風險。她說: “每年死于車禍或家庭事故的人要多得多, 但在我們上班前, 我們不會在早上為這些事情感到恐慌”??芍? 從最后一段可以得出結(jié)論: 人們不應(yīng)該對病毒感到恐慌。故選A。Ⅱ. 完形填空I will never forget one summer in my childhood. While walking in the attic(閣樓), I stepped on something and 1 down, with my hand landing on a floorboard that popped up and almost hit me in the head. When I 2 and looked inside the open space, I could not believe my eyes: There was gold there! I 3 a handful of shining gold cubes, ran to the bottom stair and 4 , “Mama, I found gold up there under the floor! ”Back up the stairs I dashed, 5 my brothers almost knocked me down as they ran right by me. When Mama opened the door and 6 her head in, she 7 said, “Honey, that’s insulation (隔熱材料). Now put it all back. ”I felt really disappointed. I had thought I made a real 8 . When I 9 inside to put the fake gold back, my hand touched what felt like a book. I pulled it out. It was old and small: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, which I’d never heard of. And 10 I was bored, I decided to see what was inside this little book. To my 11 , it was a book of passages, phrases, and proverbs and I could tell that this was going to be 12 . So I spent quite much time on it and found 13 in these pages. As I didn’t know how to express things clearly, I often 14 to talk about them. This book helped me 15 that I didn’t need to feel ashamed or 16 , because other people had similar experiences. When I went to college, Bartlett’s came with me. Over the years, I’ve kept my original 17 , which to this day I often 18 . Although it was a 19 to find the book, it liberated me in a way. It helped me see more than my young mind and heart were able to understand. The book discovered under those floorboards was, 20 gold. 【文章大意】童年時期的一個夏天, “我”在閣樓意外發(fā)現(xiàn)了Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations這本書, “我”被書中的內(nèi)容所吸引, 它們