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It was the first day of spring here but it didn't feel like it. The COVID-19 epidemic (流行病) was sweeping the globe and everywhere there were feelings of fear and loneliness. “Social Distancing” had become the new norm. Here the schools had been clod, the restaurant dining rooms had been shut, and people had been told to work from home whenever they could. Even the sheltered workshop where my oldest son worked had been clod until further notice. People had made a run on the stores and large areas of the shelves were bare. On the news the numbers of the sick and dead continued to ri. It felt like there was a weight on the souls of everyone in the world.此日中流自在行
My family were staying at home as much as possible and as I looked out of my window I wondered how long this crisis would last. It was then, however, that I saw something that lifted that weight off of my soul, made me smile, and made my heart feel happy again. On the street below my hou there was an old friend of mine from high school who was a teacher there. With him was my younger son's former aide from the high school as well. Th
ey were delivering the school lunches door to door to the hungry children who were stuck at home. Watching them made me think of something everyone's childhood television neighbor, Mr. Roger's once said: In the bad times, always look for the helpers.
I have no doubt that this crisis will pass as all the crisis before. But it is our choice on whether it brings out the best in us or the worst in us. Let it bring out the best in you. U it to strengthen your faith. U it to free yourlf from fear. U it to grow kinder, more giving, and more loving. Become a helper to all tho in need and you will be a happy person today and all the days to come.
1. Why didn't the author like the first day of spring
A. He had to work at home instead of at office.
B. There wasn't social distance between each other.
C. There was an epidemic everywhere in the world.
D. His own company had been clod for a long time.
2. How did people feel in the face of the epidemic?援鄂
A. Disappointed. B. Ten C. Confident. D. Cheerful.
3. What made the author happyipad配置
A. Seeing someone delivering lunches from door to door.
B. Talking with his old friend in the street.
C. Watching a childhood television at home.
D. Staying together with his family.
4. What do Mr. Roger's words actually mean
A. It's not necessary for us to find helpers in bad times.
新生儿护理B. In good times we needn't do much to help others.
C. We should ask more people to help us in bad times.
D. We are suppod to help each other in bad times.
Cuckoos don’t bother building their own nests—they just lay eggs that perfectly imitate tho of other birds and take over their nests. But other birds are wishing up, evolving some riously impressive tricks to spot the cuckoo eggs.
Cuckoos are often know asparasites, meaning that they hide their eggs in the nest of other species. To avoid detection, the cuckoos have evolved so that eggs em reproduction of tho of their preferred targets. If the host bird doesn’t notice the strange egg in its nest, the little cuckoo will actually take the entire nest for itlf after it comes out, taking the other eggs on its back and dropping them out of the nest.
To avoid this unpleasant fate for their young, the other birds have evolved a few smart ways to spot the fakes, which we’re only now beginning to fully understand. One of the most amazing finds is that birds have an extra colour-nsitive cell in their eyes, which makes them far more nsitive to ultraviolet wavelengths and allows them to e a far greater range of colours than humans can. This allows cautious birds to detect a fake egg
which might be exactly the same to our eyes.林外
Fascinatingly, we’re actually able to obrve different bird species at very different points in their evolutionary war with the cuckoos. For instance, some cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of the redstarts. The blue eggs the cuckoos lay are practically alike to tho of the redstarts, and yet they are still sometimes rejected. Compare that with cuckoos who target dunnocks. While tho birds lay perfectly blue eggs, their cuckoo invaders just lay white eggs with brown irregular shaped spots. And yet dunnocks barely ever em to notice the obvious trick.
Biologists suspect the more easily fooled species like the dunnocks are on the same evolutionary path as the redstarts, but they have a long way to go until they evolve the same levels of suspicion. What’s remarkable is that the dunnocks fakes are so bad and the redstart ones so good, and yet cuckoos are still more successful with the former than the latter.苏州美女
It speaks to just how thoroughly a species’ behavior can be changed by the pressures of
natural lection, or it might just be a bit of strategic cooperation on the part of the dunnocks. Biologists have suggested that the birds are willing to tolerate a parasite every so often becau they don’t want to risk accidentally getting rid of one of their own eggs.
5. This passage can be most likely found in a .今别离
洋葱炒牛肉的做法A. science survey B. nature magazine
