【推荐1】For centuries, people have kept large amounts of cash at home during difficult times.     1    . Metal coins and paper bills can be a source of worry rather than hope.

The fear is that these objects probably touched by thousands of people could provide a way for the coronavirus to spread.     2    . However, some businesses still refuse to accept cash and some countries have suggested that their citizens should stop using it altogether.

    3    . Due to the ease of Internet ordering, many countries have slowly reduced cash use to the point where using it in large amounts seems unusual. Britain and Australia are expected to become cashless countries. And in China, cash use has dropped as electronic payment services have increased in popularity over the past ten years.

“Cash ist Fesch” is a common saying in Austria and southern Germany, meaning cash is beautiful. These words suggest people tend to believe in cash culture. But since the virus outbreak，shops that have remained open there have encouraged people to pay with cards. The threat of the coronavirus could move many countries towards going cashless.     4    .

However, cash use is still common in places like West and Central Africa, where many are too poor to pay for the cost of banking services.     5    . But the world will not be cashless until everyone and every country has reliable access to the Internet.

A．The culture is slowly changing.

B．Cash makes up a large percent of family expenses.

C．But during the coronavirus crisis, things are different.

D．Some people might rethink their use of cash during the crisis.

E．Public officials and health experts have said that the risk is small.

F．During the COVID-19 crisis, a major job for many companies is exchanging cash.

G．In many areas, cash is already beginning to disappear.

【推荐2】Mainland couples who give birth to a second child in Hong Kong will be fined for breaking the family planning policy，a senior official has warned．
As more women flock to Hong Kong to give birth to their second child，Zhang Feng，family planning department director of Guangdong Province，stressed that this_____China's policies．“And those who are government employees will even be dismissed from their posts．”he said．
“ It doesn’t matter if they give birth to their second child on the mainland or in other countries and regions, they have violated the country’s policies and the province’s regulations”.
He said that some families had been punished in the past few months after having a second child in Hong Kong, but gave no details.
Zhang made his remarks when a Hong Kong newspaper carried a controversial ( 有争议的 ) notice claiming residents’ medical services had been affected by the growing number of mainland women who arrive in the city to give birth and gain fight of abode ( 居住) there.
According to statistics revealed by Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government，about 88，000 babies were born in Hong Kong in 2010，but more than 41，000 or 47 percent，were to mainland couples，including a large number from Guangdong．
Hong Kong has limited the number of mainland women permitted to give birth in the city at 34，000 this year．
The issue also has caused calls for an amendment（修正）to Hong Kong's Basic Law so that babies born to mainland women are no longer granted permanent fight of abode．
“I support Hong Kong government's decision to reduce or limit the number for mainland women giving birth in Hong Kong．”Zhang said．
China introduced its family planning policy in 1979 to limit births in the world's most populous nation，although the rules have been relaxed in recent years．
1. Which of the following is true?

A．Those who give birth to a second child in Hong Kong will be fined．

B．Many government employees have been dismissed from their posts．

C．Zhang Feng is family planning department director of Guangdong Province．

D．It doesn't matter if they give birth to their second child on the mainland．

2. What does the word “violated” mean in the second paragraph?

A．went against

B．was obeyed

C．was for

D．was dismissed

3. Zhang Feng said that           .

A．few families had been punished after having a second child in China

B．about 88，000 babies were born in Hong Kong in 2010

C．the residents' medical services in Hong Kong had been affected

D．he agreed to reduce or limit the number for mainland women giving birth in Hong Kong

4. From the passage we can infer       .

A．in 2010 most of the babies born in Hong Kong belonged to mainland couples

B．the number of mainland women permitted to give birth in Hong Kong has been reduced

C．babies born to mainland women in Hong Kong can't get permanent right of abode now

D．the family planning policy in China is as strict as before

【推荐3】Age has its privileges in America, and one of the more prominent of them is the senior citizen discount. Anyone who has reached a certain age — in some cases as low as 55 — is automatically entitled to dazzling array of price reductions at nearly every level of commercial life.     1     Practically unheard of a generation ago, the discounts have become a routine part of many businesses — as common as color televisions in motel rooms and free coffee on airliners.

People with gray hair often are given the discounts without even asking for them; yet, millions of Americans above age 60 are healthy and solvent(有支付能力的). Businesses that would never dare offer discounts to college students or anyone under 30 freely offer them to older Americans. The practice is acceptable because of the widespread belief that―elderly and―needy are synonymous (同义的). Perhaps that once was true,     2     To be sure, there is economic diversity within the elderly, and many older Americans are poor. But most of them aren’t.

It is impossible to determine the impact of the discounts on individual companies. For many firms, they are a stimulus to revenue. But in other cases the discounts are given at the expense, directly or indirectly, of younger Americans. Moreover, they are a direct irritant in what some politicians and scholars see as a coming conflict between the generations.

    3     Indeed, employment is a sore point. Buoyed(支持)by laws and court decisions, more and more older Americans are declining the retirement dinner in favor of staying on the job —thereby lessening employment and promotion opportunities for younger workers.

    4    It no longer makes sense to treat the elderly as a single group whose economic needs deserve priority over those of others. Senior citizen discounts only enhance the myth that older people can’t take care of themselves and need special treatment;     5     Senior citizen discounts are the essence of the very thing older Americans are fighting against — discrimination by age.

A．As the younger generation complains about low rate of employing, it’s high time that we need to reflect.

B．but today elderly Americans as a group have a lower poverty rate than the rest of the population.

C．Generational tensions are being fueled by continuing debate over Social Security benefits, which mostly involve a transfer of resources.

D．Eligibility is determined not by one’s need but by the date on one’s birth certificate.

E．Far from a kind of charity they once were, senior citizen discounts have become a formidable economic privilege to a group with millions of members who don’t need them.

F．and they threaten the creation of a new myth that the elderly are ungrateful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other age groups.

G．The elderly, being financially underprivileged, need humane help from society. Senior citizen discounts can make up for the inadequacy of the Social Security system.