In 2013 Tallinn(爱沙尼亚首都塔林) became the world’s first capital city to offer people free public transport. Last year Estonia(爱沙尼亚) set the aim to become the first country with free public transport nationwide. Buses are now free of charge in 11 of its 15 counties.
Tallinn’s city government came up with the idea of free transport in 2008. Even though the city paid more than 70% of public-transport costs, ticket prices were still too high for poorer people. Crowdedness had also become a problem. Since 1991, the number of people owning cars has doubled.
Opponents(反对者) thought the idea unaffordable and critics(批评者) predicted the transport system would become overcrowded and lack money.
Surprisingly, public transport has improved, despite a €12 million hit to the system’s finances from lost ticket sales. Tallinn’s population has grown, leading to an increase in local tax intake. Additional revenu(财政收入) comes from tourists, who still have to buy tickets. The use of public transport in Tallinn has gone up by 10%, while the number of cars in the city has gone down by 10%, meaning less congestion.
Now other countries are looking at Estonia’s experience. Tallinn officials say they have had interest from France, Sweden, Poland, Italy and Germany. Other places have already introduced free public transport for certain groups or at certain times. In England 1/3 of all bus trips are fare-free especially for pensioners(领养老金者); Wales runs free travel at weekends to improve tourism. But so far full fare-free travel is rare. The city of Hasselt in Belgium ran free public transport for 16 years before reintroducing fares because of increasing costs.
1. Which of the following places offers full fare-free public transport?| A．Hasselt | B．Estonia | C．Wales | D．Tallinn |
| A．The government wouldn’t have enough money to carry it out. |
| B．It wouldn’t help with the city’s over crowdedness. |
| C．It would lead to the heavy loss from ticket sales. |
| D．Years later the city would reintroduce fares from people. |
| A．pollution | B．population | C．crowdedness | D．income |
| A．It offers more job opportunities for people. |
| B．It helps to solve the traffic problem in cities. |
| C．It encourages people to stop driving. |
| D．It attracts more tourists to take buses. |
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【推荐1】From quiet paths by a stream in a forest to busy roads running through a city,people have created various forms of routes in different places.These routes have enabled people to move, transport things,and send information from one place to another quickly and safely.
Early routes were often formed naturally on land.They gradually developed over long periods of time while people traveled them on foot or horseback.Once the first wheeled carts appeared in ancient times,people recognized the importance of well-maintained routes.
People have established routes on water,too.Rivers and canals have served as effective routes for people to move around and carry things.For example,in the old,Japanese city of Edo,water routes were used for the transportation of agricultural products,seafood,and wood.
People have gone on to open routes in the sky as well.Since the invention of the airplane,they have made it possible to travel long distances easily.Finally,people became able to travel safely and comfortably high in the sky,and going vast distances only took a small amount of time.
As long as there have been people,there have been routes to connect them.
| A．People could travel great distances. |
| B．People have also opened routes across the sea. |
| C．Today,we have a new type of route,the Internet. |
| D．Therefore,towns,cities,and entire countries improved them. |
| E．Some unknown routes will surely take us further in the future. |
| F．They have been important in our daily lives throughout history. |
| G．They can immediately send messages to large numbers of people all at once. |
The system，called driver Alert，aims to reduce deadly road accidents by 20%—40% that are caused by tiredness．Airline pilots can also use it to reduce the 30% of all pilot-error accidents that are related to fatigue．
Driver Alert is based on a computerized wristband．The device，worn by drivers or pilots gives out a sound about every four minutes during a car journey．After each sound the driver must respond by squeezing the steering wheel(方向盘)．A sensor in the wristband detects this pressing action and measures the time between the sound and the driver’s response．
Tiredness is directly related to a driver’s response time．Usually，a watchful driver would take about 400 milliseconds to respond，but once that falls to more than 500 milliseconds，it suggests that the driver is getting sleepy．
In such cases the device gives out more regular and louder sounds，showing that the driver should open a window or stop for a rest．If the driver’s response continues to slow down，the sounds become more frequent until a nonstop alarm warms that the driver must stop as soon as possible．
The device has been delivered to the department’s laboratories for testing．If these tests，scheduled for six months’ time，are successful，the markers will bring the product to market within about a year．
1. According to the text，Driver Alert ______．
| A．aims to reduce tiredness-related accidents |
| B．has gone through testing at laboratories |
| C．aims to prevent drivers from sleeping |
| D．has been on sale for 12 months |
| A．By sounding a warning |
| B．By touching the wristband |
| C．By checking the driving time |
| D．By pressing the steering wheel |
| A．About 400 milliseconds |
| B．below 500 milliseconds |
| C．over 500 milliseconds |
| D．about 400 minutes |
| A．moves more regularly |
| B．stops working properly |
| C．opens the window for the driver |
| D．sounds more frequently and loudly |
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You have heard the expression “horse sense”. As you may imagine, it came from the time when the majority of people traveled in vehicles drawn by horses. A horse does have a lot of common sense, and there are many true stories about horses having saved their drivers from danger of death.
Today for the most part, people travel by train, ship, airplane, and car, but very little by the use of horses. Modern vehicles are propelled by engines, and an engine does not have any sense. In case of danger, many horses could be depended on to help. Not so with the engine; the driver must do all the things.
In recent years, the speed of travel has increased greatly. With the increased speed comes greatly increased danger. The driver of a powerful engine needs to be careful. A moment of being careless may cost a life. In order to drive today, a person must be able to see clearly, and he must learn and follow carefully the rules for safety on the road. Greater attention is the price we pay for using a machine instead of a horse.
1. The passage mainly talks about ______.
| A．engines | B．safe driving | C．using horses | D．modern machines |
| A．repair | B．raise | C．push forward | D．made |
| A．a driver must know the rules of safety |
| B．a driver needs to be able only to tell red from green |
| C．an eye test is an important part of a driver’s examination |
| D．greater attention is needed for a driver while driving a machine |
| A．A driver must be able to see and hear well. |
| B．The driver of a car must follow the rules of safety. |
| C．Horses are known to have saved their drivers from injury. |
| D．It is better for vehicles to be pulled by horse than to be pushed by engine. |
【推荐1】With the coming of big data age, data science is supposed to be starved for, of which the adaption can point a profound change in corporate competitiveness. Companies, both born in the digital era and traditional world are showing off their skills in data science. Therefore, it seems to have been creating a great demand for the experts of this type.
Mr Carlos Guestrin, machine learning professor from University of Washington argues that all software applications will need in built intelligence within five years, making data scientists-people trained to analyze large bodies of information-key workers in this emerging “cognitive” technology economy. There are already critical applications that depend on machine learning, a subfield of data science, led by recommendation programs, fraud detection systems, forecasting tools and applications for predicting customer behavior.
Many companies that are born digital-particularly internet companies that have a great number of real-time customer interactions to handle-are all-in when it comes to data science. Pinterest, for instance, maintains more than 100 machine learning models that could be applied to different classes of problems, and it constantly fields requests from managers eager to use this resource to deal with their business problem.
The factors weighing on many traditional companies will be the high cost of mounting a serious machine-learning operation. Netflix is estimated to spend $ 150m a year on a single application and the total bill is probably four times that once all its uses of the technology are taken into account.
Another problem for many non-technology companies is talent. Of the computer science experts who use Kaggle, only about 1,000 have deep learning skills, compared to 100,000 who can apply other machine learning techniques, says Mr Goldbloom. He adds that even some big companies of this type are often reluctant to expand their pay scales to hire the top talent in this field.
The biggest barrier to adapting to the coming era of “smart” applications, however, is likely to be cultural. Some companies, such as General Electric, have been building their own
Silicon Valley presence to attract and develop the digital skills they will need.
Despite the obstacles, some may master this difficult transition. But companies that were built, from the beginning, with data science at their center, are likely to represent serious competition.
1. Which one is obstacle for many traditional companies to popularize learning operation?| A．Technological problem |
| B．Expert crisis |
| C．High cost |
| D．Customer interactions |
| A．Machine learning operations are costly in Netflix. |
| B．Machine learning plays an important role in existent applications. |
| C．Machine learning experts are not highly paid in some non-technology companies. |
| D．Machine learning models are not sufficient to solve business problems in Pinterest. |
| A．Data science: A forefront force in tech business |
| B．Corporate competition: An obstacle to the transition |
| C．Machine learning: A key to smart technology |
| D．Technique experts: A decisive factor of the coming era. |
| A．avoids | B．creates |
| C．solves | D．classifies |
【推荐2】Though the Haskell Free Library and Opera House might not be as well-known as the Grand Canyon, it’s undoubtedly one of America’s most unique tourist attractions. Completed in 1904, the building is stationed directly between Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont, with the official U.S.-Canada borderline running right across the library’s floor.
Martha Stewart Haskell and her son, Colonel Horace Stewart Haskell, both Canadians, built the building as respect to Mrs. Haskell’s late husband, Carlos. The family hoped that citizens from both countries would use it as a “center for learning and cultural enrichment”, according to the official Haskell Free Library website.
The Haskell is divided between the two countries. While the library’s official entrance is on the U.S. side of the building, most of the books are on the Canadian side. The opera house is similarly split, with most of its seats in the U.S. and its stage in Canada. As Atlas Obscura reported, it is often said that the Haskell is the only library in the U.S. with no books, and the only opera house in the country with no stage.
Passports and other forms of identification aren’t required to cross from country to country in the library, though the Haskell’s website notes that the border inside the building “is real and it is enforced”. Visitors are expected to return to their side of the border after a visit. If they don’t, they risk possible detention and fines.
Even beyond the building’s unique position, library director Nancy Rumery told CTV News that Haskell staffers—Canadian and American alike—consider the institution to be like any other library in the world.
“We’re just trying to be the best library, and our community is made up of people from two different countries,” she said. “We don’t think of it in that big symbolic way that I think a lot of people do. These are all our neighbors and we do our very best to help them on their life-long learning journey.”
1. What can be learned about the Haskell Free Library?| A．It has a history of almost 100 years. |
| B．It runs across the U.S.-Canada border. |
| C．It can be compared to the Grand Canyon. |
| D．It is a well-known tourism site in Mexico. |
| A．To be in honor of Mrs. Haskell. |
| B．To donate books to the community. |
| C．To support the cultural needs of citizens. |
| D．To offer a relaxing environment for both countries. |
| A．A passport must be carried. | B．Border laws must be respected. |
| C．An ID card must be checked. | D．A personal photo must be taken. |
| A．The library takes on a symbolic meaning. |
| B．She hopes to offer the best service to the visitors. |
| C．She expects the library to be something different from others. |
| D．The library strengthens the ties between the bordering countries. |
【推荐3】Amber has a degree in business management and economics.She put her skills to good use when she spent eleven months in Cambodia (柬埔寨) through World Hope International as a volunteer working with a local micro－finance (小额信贷) company to help the poor get financial services.
Amber's first few weeks in Cambodia was busy and difficult as she tried to learn the language，understand the culture and get used to her new surroundings.Her volunteer service involved working with a local micro－finance company.In addition to writing plans，preparing international marketing materials and building donor (捐赠人) relations，Amber met with company clients.During these visits she learned how the small loans they received transformed their lives.She learned first－hand the benefits of micro－finance，which by providing farmers and small－business owners with affordable working capital (such as money to buy a sewing machine) helped them to earn their way out of poverty (贫穷)．
“It never stopped amazing me when a client would show me a new home that was built because of a loan he received or the way a client's business had improved and thus allowed his children to be sent to school，” Amber said.
Amber recalled that one client called Paul walked her all around his house，pointing to what he had done with each of eight loans he'd received.He explained how every loan had improved his family's quality of life.Amber said he was one of the hardest－working men she had ever met.He had suffered greatly in the Cambodian Civil War and became disabled，but not once did he let it kill his dreams of realizing a better life for his family.His latest purchase，a sound system that he rented out for weddings and other parties doubled his income!
Amber said，“Living and working in Cambodia helped me see the world in new ways and made me aware of the hardship and suffering that many people around the world face every day.Those eleven months were some of the most meaningful months of my life.”
1. What's the best title for this passage?| A．World Hope International |
| B．Benefits of Micro－finance |
| C．Amber's Volunteer Experience in Cambodia |
| D．Poverty in Developing Countries |
| A．teaching the language |
| B．meeting with company clients |
| C．writing plans |
| D．building donor relations |
| A．Amber met with no difficulties after she arrived in Cambodia |
| B．Amber is the leader of World Hope International |
| C．few children go to school because there aren't enough schools in Cambodia |
| D．many local people in Cambodia changed their lives with the loans |
| A．Each of the loans he had received helped him a lot. |
| B．He was poor because he didn't work as hard as others. |
| C．He became disabled because of a car accident. |
| D．He bought a sound system for his wedding. |
【推荐1】Some people are early risers while others can’t seem to get to bed until well after midnight. Why is this? A research team has a new finding that shows how a “switch” in the biological clocks of early risers leads them to operate on a daily cycle of about 20 hours instead of a full 24-hour cycle.
This finding from Carrie Partch and her colleagues builds on decades of research into biological clocks, which control sleeping and waking, rest and activity, body temperature, heart rate and so on.
Partch and her colleagues focus on two main clock components: an enzyme (酶) known as casein kinase 1 (CK1) and a protein (蛋白质) called PERIOD. It turns out that the timing of biological clocks is strongly influenced by the rise and fall of the PERIOD protein, and this daily change normally takes place over 24 hours. But CK1 adjusts PERIOD levels by chemically modifying the protein, thereby adjusting its stability.
What they’ve discovered is that a part of CK1 acts as a switch. When this switch functions normally, it generates a near- perfect 24-hour cycle by keeping PERIOD’s stability right. In this case, people easily and correctly match their biological clocks with the daily coming and going of daylight.
If the switch favors a faster breakdown of the protein, the daily cycle grows shorter and less tightly bound to daylight. For these early risers, it’s a constant struggle to adjust to life in a 24-hour world. On the contrary, a switch that favors a slower breakdown will lengthen the clock, causing some people to be night owls (夜猫子).
Partch’s discoveries are sure to offer a new view on how the biological clocks make us tick. She hopes they’ll result in new ways to adjust the clocks in people with sleep disorders and even the means to reset the clocks in people who regularly travel overseas or work the night shift.
1. What does Partch’s research team find?| A．What the biological clock is. |
| B．Why some people get up early. |
| C．Where two main clock components lie. |
| D．How people adapt to the biological clock. |
| A．Heart rate. | B．Sleeping. |
| C．Body temperature. | D．The PERIOD protein. |
| A．A slower breakdown of PERIOD makes the daily cycle longer. |
| B．The cycle of night owls’ biological clock is shorter. |
| C．A faster breakdown of casein kinase 1 lengthens the clock. |
| D．It is very easy for early risers to adapt to normal life. |
| A．The Functions of the Biological Clock |
| B．The Meanings of Partch’s Discoveries |
| C．The Differences Between CK1 and PERIOD |
| D．The Causes of Changing Biological Clocks |
【推荐2】You may think the best way to solve a tough problem is to keep working on it, even overnight. But the truth is just the opposite: Your best chance to get to the bottom of a problem is actually to sleep on it.
A team of researchers at Northwestern University, US, found that sleeping is useful in both strengthening and re-organizing memory. This can help you solve problems.
The researchers did an experiment with 57 students. They asked them to solve 42 difficult puzzles on the first day. The students worked on each puzzle while listening to different music. The research encouraged students to remember the music they heard while solving the puzzles. By the end, there were six puzzles that the students still hadn’t solved.
The students then went back home to sleep. They were given special sleep-monitoring(睡眠监测)and music devices (设备). The devices played music linked with the unsolved puzzles while the students were in the slow-wave sleep stage. This stage is when people are likely to dream and re-organize their memories.
The next morning, the students tried the unsolved puzzles again. Researchers found they were 55 percent more likely to solve them. The music activated(激活)the memories they had of the puzzles while they were sleeping. It allowed them to “work” on the puzzles in their sleep.
Earlier studies of both people and animals have shown that sleep cannot only strengthen memory, but also help us organize information in our brains. This study seems to support that understanding. So the next time you face a difficult problem, sleep on it. Then play some music to remind yourself of the problem.
1. What did the research at Northwestern University find?| A．Sleeping can help people solve problems. |
| B．Listening to music can improve memory. |
| C．Music can help people solve puzzles faster. |
| D．People can solve difficult puzzles in their dreams. |
| A．Some students didn’t listen to music while solving puzzles. |
| B．Some kept working on the puzzles when others were sleeping. |
| C．The students “worked” on the unsolved puzzles while sleeping. |
| D．Many students found it difficult to remember the music they heard. |
| A．This study supports earlier findings. |
| B．The finding is of little practical value. |
| C．This study should have had animals included. |
| D．No research has been done in this field before. |
【推荐3】Consider these facts: The tennis champion Williams sisters are a generation apart, according to the Pew Research Center. Venus, born in 1980, is labelled “Gen X”; Serena, born in 1981, is a “millennial”. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Michelle Obama both belong to the same generation. The former was born in 1946 while the latter was born in 1964, making them both “baby boomers”.
Before you push these diverse personalities into generational stereotypes (刻板印象), let me stop you there: Just don’t. Generation labels, although widely adopted by the public, have no basis in social reality. In fact, in one recent survey, most people did not identify the correct generation for themselves, even when they were shown a list of options.
This is not surprising since the labels are forced by survey researchers, journalists or marketing firms before the identities they are supposed to describe even exist. Instead of asking people which group they identify with and why, they just declare the labels and start making pronouncements about them. That’s not how social identity works.
The practice of naming “generations” based on birth year goes back at least to the supposed “lost-generation” of the late 19th century. But as the tradition slid into a never-ending competition to be the first to propose the next name that sticks, it has produced gradually declining returns to social science and the public understanding.
The supposed boundaries between generations are no more meaningful than the names they’ve been given. There is no research identifying the appropriate boundaries between generations, and there is no statistical basis for requiring the sweeping character traits (特征) that are believed to define them. In one article you might read that millennials are “liberal lions”, “downwardly mobile”, and “distrustful”; even though they also “get along well with their parents, respect their elders and work well with colleagues”.
Ridiculous, clearly. But what’s the harm? Aren’t these labels just a bit of fun for writers? A method to attract readers and a way of communicating generational change, which no one would deny is a real phenomenon? We, in academic social science, study and teach social change, but we don’t study and teach these labels because they simply aren’t real. And in social science, reality still matters.
Worse than irrelevant, such baseless labels drive people toward stereotyping and thoughtless character judgment. Measuring and describing social change is essential, and it can be useful to analyze the historical period in which people were born and raised, but drawing random lines between birth years and assigning names to them doesn’t help.
Today there are lots of good alternatives to label generations. We can simply describe people by the decade in which they were born and define generational groups specifically related to a particular issue—such as 2020 school kids. With the arrival of “Generation Z”, there has never been a better time to get off this train.
1. What do the facts listed in Paragraph 1 imply?| A．Different people have different opinions about generation labels. |
| B．People with the same generation label may not be of similar age. |
| C．Generational change can be measured by generation labels. |
| D．Generation labels are widely adopted by celebrities. |
| A．is understood | B．is analyzed | C．is described | D．is accepted |
| A．the generation label is a harmless device writers use to reflect reality |
| B．generation boundaries are more meaningful than generation labels |
| C．assigning character traits to a certain generation is misguided |
| D．journalists should find alternative ways to judge character |
| A．Generation labels: It’s high time to retire them |
| B．Generation labels: The ongoing debate will never end |
| C．Generation labels: What do they say about who we are? |
| D．Generation labels: Expand or bridge generational differences? |
【推荐1】Suppose you are about to complete high school and are thinking about attending a college or university. After doing some research, you find a school you would like to attend, but have questions about the application process. So you go to the school’s website in the hope of finding a few answers.
Time goes by and you, a student, still do not have the answers. You almost feel like giving up. But today, as you can see, artificial intelligence is so advanced. You find a message appears on your computer or personal electronic device. It says something like: ''How can I help? '' Writing back to the website, you try to explain your problem. You possibly get a few questions to clarify what your concerns are. Then, almost immediately, the person with whom you are in contact provides the information you are seeking.
In fact, you are not actually communicating with a school official. You are not even dealing with a human being. You are in contact with a computer program, or chatbot. It is using artificial intelligence, AI for short, to understand and communicate with you. This might sound strange. But chances are that this would not be the first time you have communicated with a computer program without knowing it. In recent years, chatbots have become a common tool for banks and large companies around the world.
Having human beings available to answer people’s questions and complaints can be costly, requiring many workers. And in most cases, employees can only work for several hours in a day, increasing customers’ waiting time for a response, but the chatbot can work around the clock. So not only companies, but a growing number of universities have also begun using the chatbot technology.
Australia's University of Adelaide noted a major improvement in its service to student after employing a chathot to deal with application questions in 2018. It said that students received responses 13 times faster, and students’ approval of the quality of service increased by 60 percent. And just the speed of reacting to questions is the chatbot's major strength.
1. How does the author introduce the topic of the text?| A．By assumption. | B．By comparison. |
| C．By definition. | D．By data. |
| A．To tell time and tide wait for no man. |
| B．To advise students should clarify their questions. |
| C．To present the communication convenience brought by Al. |
| D．To show the phenomenon that students are addicted to computers. |
| A．Its low cost. | B．Its ease of use. |
| C．Its short working hours. | D．Its quick response. |
| A．Artificial intelligence is developing rapidly. |
| B．Robots are gradually replacing human services. |
| C．Employees chat with robots without knowing them. |
| D．More universities use chatbots to communicate online. |
The circles are called “crop circles” because they appear in the fields of grain - usually wheat or corn. The grain in the circles lies flat on the ground but never broken; it continues to grow, and farmers can later harvest it. Farmers always discover the crop circles in the morning, so the circles probably form at night. They appear only in the months from May to September.
At first, people thought that the circles were a hoax. Probably young people were making them as a joke, or farmers were making them to attract tourists. To prove that the circles were a hoax, people tried to make circles exactly like the ones that farmer had found. They couldn’t do it. They couldn’t enter a field of grain without leaving tracks(痕迹), and they couldn’t flatten the grain without breaking it.
Many people believe that beings from outer space are making the circle to communicate with us from far away and that the crop circles are messages from them.
Scientists who have studied the crop circles suggested several possibilities. Some scientists say that a downward rush of wind leads to the formation of the circles - the same downward rush of air that sometimes causes an airplane to crash. Other scientists say that forces within the earth cause the circles to appear. There is one problem with all these scientific explanations: crop circles often appear in formations, like the five-dot formation. It is hard to believe that any natural force could form those.
1. In the summer of 1978, an English farmer discovered in his field that __________.
| A．some of his wheat had been damaged |
| B．his grain was growing up in circles. |
| C．his grain was moved into several circles |
| D．some of his wheat had fallen onto the ground. |
| A．an attempt made to fool people |
| B．a special way to plant crops |
| C．a research on the force of winds |
| D．an experiment for the protection of crops. |
| A．The farmer couldn’t step out of the field. |
| B．The farmers couldn’t make the circles round. |
| C．The farmers couldn’t leave without footprints. |
| D．The farmers couldn’t keep the wheat straight up. |
| A．An Unsolved Mystery |
| B．Strange Flying Objects |
| C．The Power of Natural Forces |
| D．The discovery of Strange Circles |
【推荐3】Three Boys and a Dad
Brad closed the door slowly as Sue left home to visit her mother. Expecting a whole day to relax, he was thinking whether to read the newspaper or watch his favourite TV talk show on his first day off in months. “This will be like a walk in the park.” he’d told his wife. “I’ll look after the kids, and you can go visit your mom.”
Things started well, but just after eight o'clock, his three little “good kids”---Mike, Randy, and Alex --- came down the stairs in their night clothes and shouted “breakfast, daddy.” When food had not appeared on within thirty seconds, Randy began using his spoon on Alex’s head as if it were a drum. Alex started to shout loudly in time to the beat(节拍) . Mike chanted “Where’s my toast, where’s my toast” in the background. Brad realized his newspaper would have to wait for a few seconds.
Life became worse after breakfast. Mike wore Randy’s underwear on his head. Randy locked himself in the bathroom, while Alex shouted again because he was going to wet his pants. Nobody could find clean socks, although they were before their eyes. Someone named “Not me” had spilled a whole glass of orange juice into the basket of clean clothes. Brad knew the talk show had already started.
By ten o'clock, things were out of control. Alex was wondering why the fish in the fish bowl refused his bread and butter. Mike was trying to show off his talent by decorating kitchen wall with his color pencils. Randy, thankfully, appeared to be reading quietly in the sitting room, but closer examination showed that he was eating apple jam straight from the bottle with his hands. Brad realized that the talk show was over and reading would be impossible.
At exactly 11:17, Brad called the daycare center(日托所).“I suddenly have to go into work and my wife is away. Can I bring the boys over in a few minutes?” The answer was obviously “yes” because Brad was smiling.
1. When his wife left home, Brad expected___________.| A．go out for a walk in the park |
| B．watch TV talk show with his children |
| C．enjoy his first day off the work. |
| D．read the newspaper to his children |
| A．Drawing on the wall | B．Eating apple jam |
| C．Feeding the fish | D．Reading in a room |
| A．Because he wanted to clean his house. |
| B．Because he suddenly had to go to his office |
| C．Because he found it hard to manage his boys |
| D．Because he had to take his wife back home. |
| A．by space | B．by comparison |
| C．by process | D．by time |
