Laurie Penny, a television writer and journalist from England, shares her house in the Silver Lake
英语试题 02-09
Laurie Penny, a television writer and journalist from England, shares her house in the Silver Lake community of Los Angeles, California, US, with a songwriter named Natti Vogel. Along with a freelance (自由职业 的 ) journalist named Sam Braslow and a therapist named Pam Shaffer, who both live nearby, the four have formed a group to support each other during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Quarantine ( 隔 离 ) buddy arrangements are sometimes met with firm disapproval from those who hold traditional definition of family. As under stay-at-home orders from Los Angeles city, people should go out as little as possible, and big events are forbidden.
Nevertheless, the four have decided to be a family of sorts in a situation no one could have imagined a few months ago. They share meals, gather together on the couch playing guitars, exercise together and even hug.
They are not blood-related or romantic partners, but friends brought together by the restrictions on face-to-face contact that have changed life across the US to slow the spread of the COVID-19.
“If I were by myself out here in Los Angeles, so far from my family, I think I would have gone a bit crazy,” said Penny. As the crisis wears on, if people are completely isolated, they could act out in ways more damaging than associating with the same few individuals, said Jeffrey Martin, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco, US.
There is plenty of pleasure in the apartment for the quarantine foursome, which can take on the air of a “young strangers thrown together” reality show. They have read through plays, recorded songs together and performed for one another. They are working round the clock to keep one another entertained, inspired, fed and virus-free.
While they may miss parts of their old routines, the group’s priority remains the same. “We need to care for each other. That’s why we feel freak out (崩溃) as a group when someone talks about breaking quarantine,” Vogel said.
24.What is the relationship of the four people?
A.They are family members. B. They are roommates.
C. They are former colleagues. D. They are two couples.
25.What do the four do during the pandemic?
A.They reach out to help those in need. B. They follow a traditional family lifestyle.
C. They break the official quarantine orders. D. They live together and care for each other.
26.What is Martin’s attitude toward the lifestyle of the four during the quarantine?
A.Supportive. B. Surprised. C. Worried. D. Confused.
27.What does the underlined word “priority” in the last paragraph refer to?
A.Their old routines. B. Efforts to stop COVID-19.
C. Their mutual support. D. Hope for breaking quarantine.
答案
24-27 BDAC
Quarantine ( 隔 离 ) buddy arrangements are sometimes met with firm disapproval from those who hold traditional definition of family. As under stay-at-home orders from Los Angeles city, people should go out as little as possible, and big events are forbidden.
Nevertheless, the four have decided to be a family of sorts in a situation no one could have imagined a few months ago. They share meals, gather together on the couch playing guitars, exercise together and even hug.
They are not blood-related or romantic partners, but friends brought together by the restrictions on face-to-face contact that have changed life across the US to slow the spread of the COVID-19.
“If I were by myself out here in Los Angeles, so far from my family, I think I would have gone a bit crazy,” said Penny. As the crisis wears on, if people are completely isolated, they could act out in ways more damaging than associating with the same few individuals, said Jeffrey Martin, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco, US.
There is plenty of pleasure in the apartment for the quarantine foursome, which can take on the air of a “young strangers thrown together” reality show. They have read through plays, recorded songs together and performed for one another. They are working round the clock to keep one another entertained, inspired, fed and virus-free.
While they may miss parts of their old routines, the group’s priority remains the same. “We need to care for each other. That’s why we feel freak out (崩溃) as a group when someone talks about breaking quarantine,” Vogel said.
24.What is the relationship of the four people?
A.They are family members. B. They are roommates.
C. They are former colleagues. D. They are two couples.
25.What do the four do during the pandemic?
A.They reach out to help those in need. B. They follow a traditional family lifestyle.
C. They break the official quarantine orders. D. They live together and care for each other.
26.What is Martin’s attitude toward the lifestyle of the four during the quarantine?
A.Supportive. B. Surprised. C. Worried. D. Confused.
27.What does the underlined word “priority” in the last paragraph refer to?
A.Their old routines. B. Efforts to stop COVID-19.
C. Their mutual support. D. Hope for breaking quarantine.
答案
24-27 BDAC
苏19057182-3号