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【題目】 Schools are now running remote (遠(yuǎn)程) lessons for more than 90 per cent of NSW students because of COVID-19 (冠狀病毒) crisis, a situation likely to l【1】 for months. The NSW Department of Education says the lessons are designed to be done without parents' too much caring.

But parents are still under the pressure of trying to support their students' learning, saying they have been given an i【2】 task.

One parent said she spent the week working at her job, then the weekend catching up on all the work her children had missed, doing housework at night. Another single mother wakes at 3 a.m. to do her paid work so she can supervise (監(jiān)督) her children d【3】 the day.

"Do they understand that parents are fighting for our lives, our jobs, and our companies as well?" another parent said. "I' m a working mum. If I don't do my job, I may l【4】 it. I know things had to be done in a hurry. But parents have been thrown in the deep end.

Yvette McDonald, from the inner west, has two young children at a public primary school, which issues (發(fā)布) written lessons and requires typed, o【5】 communication, such as being present for roll call (點(diǎn)名) at the b【6】 and the end of each day. She has asked the NSW Department of Education to relax those rules, saying they were difficult to carry out.

"Parents are already at breaking point and we haven't even gone into formal lockdown, "she said. "Many of us are managing crisis at work, but then on top of that we're schooling our children as well. We feel as though we're failing, but we're not failing-we've been a【7】 to do very difficult things. We want to know what's essential and what's not."

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】last

【2】important

【3】during

【4】lose

【5】online

【6】beginning

【7】asked

【解析】

本文主要介紹了冠狀病毒期間，家長對(duì)于孩子進(jìn)行網(wǎng)上授課所產(chǎn)生的壓力和困擾。

【1】句意：由于冠狀病毒危機(jī)，學(xué)�，F(xiàn)在為90%以上的新南威爾士州學(xué)生開設(shè)遠(yuǎn)程課程，這種情況可能持續(xù)數(shù)月。

根據(jù)語境可知，此處指上文提到的情況可能會(huì)持續(xù)數(shù)月。last for持續(xù)，固定短語，其中空前likely to do sth可能做某事，故此處應(yīng)用其原形。故答案為last。

【2】句意：但家長們?nèi)匀幻媾R著支持學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)的壓力，他們說他們被賦予了一項(xiàng)重要的的任務(wù)。

根據(jù)語境可知，許多家長承受著支持孩子學(xué)習(xí)的壓力，所以他們認(rèn)為這是一項(xiàng)重要的的任務(wù)。important重要的的，形容詞，作定語修飾task。故答案為important。

【3】句意：另一位單身母親凌晨3點(diǎn)起床做帶薪工作，這樣她就可以在白天照看孩子。

根據(jù)語境可知，這位單身母親凌晨工作，白天照看孩子，during the day在白天期間。故答案為during。

【4】句意：如果我不做我的工作，我可能會(huì)失去它。

根據(jù)語境可知，如果我不工作，我的工作就可能會(huì)丟掉。lose丟失，動(dòng)詞，其中may為情態(tài)動(dòng)詞，其后應(yīng)接動(dòng)詞原形。故答案為lose。

【5】句意：來自美國中西部的伊維特·麥克唐納，在一所公立小學(xué)里有兩個(gè)孩子，這所學(xué)校開設(shè)書法課程，并需要打字、在線交流，比如每天開始和結(jié)束時(shí)都要點(diǎn)名。

根據(jù)語境可知，這所學(xué)校要求在課程中進(jìn)行打字、在線交流，online communication在線交流。故答案為online。

【6】句意：來自美國中西部的伊維特·麥克唐納，在一所公立小學(xué)里有兩個(gè)孩子，這所學(xué)校開設(shè)書法課程，并需要打字、在線交流，比如每天開始和結(jié)束時(shí)都要點(diǎn)名。

根據(jù)語境可知，這所學(xué)校要求每天開始和結(jié)束時(shí)點(diǎn)名。at the beginning of在……開始時(shí)，固定短語。故答案為beginning。

【7】句意：我們被要求做非常困難的事情。

根據(jù)語境可知，家長認(rèn)為他們被要求做非常困難的事。ask要求，動(dòng)詞，本句為現(xiàn)在完成時(shí)的被動(dòng)語態(tài)have been done，故此處應(yīng)用其過去分詞形式。故答案為asked。