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More than 30 volunteers organized by the village Party committee were participating in a group effort to produce gauze (纱布) masks, alcohol liquid and sterilizing powder (消毒粉) at a factory in southwest China’s Yunnan Province to help arm the fight against the 2019-nCoV (新型冠状病毒). Some villagers also had given away their sewing machines for the production work at Yunnan Xiangsha Medical Material Company in Anning City.
Volunteers addressed the labor shortage during the Spring Festival holiday at the factory, which had begun to produce on Friday. They received body temperature checks and training before the work started, with volunteers able to use the sewing machines being more than 50 years old on average. Seventy-nine-year-old Chu Shudong, who had 30 years of tailoring experience, volunteered to repair the sewing machines. “I’ve not done tailoring for 20 years. I’m old and my eyesight is poor. I hope to do what I can here and make more masks so that people are protected, ”he said. The youngest volunteer, 22-year-old Bi Qiling, joined the team. She was available because the new semester at her university in Beijing was delayed because of the 2019-nCoV outbreak.
“With the volunteers, our production capacity is higher. We have 65 people, divided into two groups, and work on two shifts (轮班) a day. All the machines are working around the clock, ”said Hang Kaijin, head of the factory, which has the ability to produce two tons of alcohol liquid and 200 kilograms of sterilizing powder every day.
It sent its production information to the city government on a daily basis and the products were all allocated by the government.
【文章大意】本文是一篇新闻报道, 介绍了新型冠状病毒肆虐期间, 很多志愿者伸出援手帮助云南湘沙医用材料公司赶制口罩、酒精和消毒粉。
21. What can we know about the volunteers from Paragraph 2?
A. The average age of the volunteers able to use sewing machines was over 50.
B. Chu Shudong, an experienced tailor at the age of 78, offered to do some sewing.
C. Volunteers having 30 years of tailoring experience shouldn’t receive body temperature checks.
D. Bi Qiling, a girl, was turned down by the university because of the 2019-nCoV outbreak.
【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据第二段中的“with volunteers able to use the sewing machines being more than 50 years old on average. ”可知, 会使用缝纫机的志愿者平均年龄超过50岁。
22. How did the volunteers work?
A. Most of the volunteers worked twice a day.
B. All of the volunteers worked 12 hours in the daytime.
C. Two groups of volunteers took turns to work 24 hours a day.
D. Volunteers were divided into two groups, each working 8 hours.
【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据第三段中的“We have 65 people, divided into two groups, and work on two shifts a day. All the machines are working around the clock”可知, 65名志愿者分为两组, 两班倒, 所有的机器都在昼夜不停地工作, 由此可知, 两组志愿者24小时轮班工作。
23. The act of the volunteers proved that .
A. great minds think alike
B. more hands produce a stronger flame
C. two heads are better than one
D. God helps those who help themselves.
【解析】选B。推理判断题。通读全文, 特别是根据第一段中的“More than 30 volunteers organized by the village Party committee were participating in a group effort to produce gauze masks, alcohol liquid and sterilizing powder at a factory in southwest China’s Yunnan Province to help arm the fight against the 2019-nCoV. ”可知, 本文主要介绍了很多志愿者伸出援手, 帮助云南湘沙医用材料公司生产口罩、酒精和消毒粉以对抗新型冠状病毒, 因此, “众人拾柴火焰高”这句谚语充分体现了志愿者们的善举。
