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疫情相关高考时文阅读系列八 四篇15题附答案导引：A疫情促使印度网课火爆 B尼德兰趣知识(二) C全球抗疫民调，中国位居第一 D牛津英语词典收录有关新冠新词汇 ASchools around the world have closed their doors because of the coronavirus pandemic, leaving more than 1.5 billion children stuck at home. While its a great inconvenience for many, it has created a spike in demand 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 Byjus, an India-based education startup named after its founder, Byju Raveendran. In early 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% surge 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 Indias school-age population of around 300 million is suddenly having to home educate. 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, he adds. Other Indian platforms, including Unacademy, Vedantu and Toppr are also offering free classes and content to students. 1. What is true about Byjus? A. It is an Indian based business startup. B. After early March Byjus would offer children Online lessons for free. C. Byjus had more 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 classes and content to students during the nationwide lockdown? A.1 B.2 C.3 D.4 BAccording to the 2013 United Nations World Happiness Report of 2013, the Netherlands was ranked fourth happiest country in the world. The Netherlands has the thirteenth-highest per capita income in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund. Perhaps thats 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 in the Dutch village of Giethoorn, but there are many canals, which is why its 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 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 didnt grow there. They were imported from the Ottoman empire in the 17th century. Today, the Netherlands is the biggest producer and exporter of tulips in the world. But not just tulips. 75% of the worlds 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 worlds 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 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 didnt use to be orange? They were 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 Zealand 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 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 Netherlands begin to use the euro? A. On February 1 1999. B. On January 1 1999. C. On January 1 1990 D. 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 Zeeland by the Dutch D. 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 and regions rate their governments coronavirus containment measures as broadly positive, based on the Global Crisis Perceptions index released Wednesday by insights agencies Blackbox Research and Toluna. The research, which surveyed about 12,500 people across 23 countries and regions between April 3 and 19, asked people to rate their countries and regions across four key indicators: political leadership, corporate leadership, community and media. China ranked highest in the citizens survey, with a score of 85 out of 100. The worlds second-largest economy was followed by Vietnam (77), the United Arab Emirates (59) and India (59), in a list which saw Asian countries and regions take the top spots. New Zealand (56), which has received international acclaim for its handling of the virus and last week began easing restrictions, was the only Western country to score higher than the global average of 45. Australia (43), the US (41), and all four western European countries surveyed - Germany (41), the UK (37), Italy (36) and France (26) - all ranked below the global average. The largely dissatisfactory response, from Western countries in particular, could reflect a hit to national psyches in terms of their expectations about preparedness for unexpected events, noted David Black, founder and chief executive officer of Blackbox Research. For many of these countries and regions, this pandemic is unprecedented. Governments are still coming to terms with a crisis they did not expect, and public confidence suffered as a result, said Black. Meanwhile, a significant part of Asia has had their leadership shaped by past epidemics, such as SARS and MERS, referring to two other deadly respiratory diseases caused by strains of coronavirus that were predominantly in Asia and the Middle East, respectively. 8. How many countries and regions were people surveyed from? A. 20 B. 21 C. 22 D. 23 9. Which country ranked the first in the citizens survey? A. China B. Vietnam C. India D. New Zealand. 10. What is the global average score? A. 56 B. 45 C. 43 D 41 11. Which country in the western countries scored higher than the global average? A . Australia. B. Germany. C. The US. D. New Zealand. DWith terms such as WFH, social distancing and self-isolation now in common ideams, the Oxford English Dictionary has made an extraordinary update to include Covid-19 and words related to the pandemic in its definitive record of the English language. The dictionarys executive editor Bernadette Paton said that it was a rare experience for lexicographers（词典编纂者） to observe an exponential（指数的） rise 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 respiratory illness in humans caused by a coronavirus, which is capable of producing severe symptoms and death, esp. in the elderly and others with underlying health conditions. As something of a departure, this update comes outside of our usual quarterly publication cycle, said Paton. But these are extraordinary times, and OED lexicographers, who like many others are all working from home . are tracking the development of the language of the pandemic and offering a linguistic and historical context to their usage. The OEDs analysis of more than 8bn words of online news stories found that coronavirus and Covid-19, a shortening of coronavirus disease 2019, are now dominating global discourse. While back in December, words such as Brexit, impeachment and climate dominated news, by January, coronavirus was seeing significant use alongside current affairs terms such as bushfire, koala, Iraqi, locust and assassination. By March every single word in the OEDs 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, 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 frequent, as are PPE and ventilator. The OEDs 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 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 to distance onese