送餐司机格森·塔瓦雷斯（Gerson Tavares）在当天最后一趟工作的途中，冒着生命危险勇敢地救下了蹒跚学步的两岁男孩。没有人知道，自己一个简单的选择，会给他人带来怎样的人生改变。

As a food delivery driver, Gerson Tavares can accept or refuse food requests on his phone. It was getting late, but he chose to go ahead and do one last order. Little did he know, that choice would lead him to saving a child’s life.

As Gerson was driving down the busy Burbank Boulevard in California, something caught his eye in the darkness. Looking closer, he saw a child walking in the middle of the street just a few feet in front of his car.

Without hesitation(犹豫), the dad of four parked right where he was and ran toward the child.“I run more and more,” Gerson said. “I know if I got out of the lane the drivers don’t see the boy. The boy is little, little.”

In hindsight, Gerson said he was so distracted that he didn’t even realize he was running into oncoming traffic. Luckily, he thought to wave his arms around to make sure other drivers could see where he was.“When the drivers stopped, I’m like, OK. I grabbed the boy in my arms, thank you God,” Gerson said.

Traffic came to a halt, and he was able to get the 2-year-old safely off the road. Fittingly, they ended up right in front of a church.

 

阅读题及答案展示：

1 . Which of the following is NOT mentioned about Mieke Gorissen in Paragraph 1?

A Her occupation.

B Her birthplace.

C Her nationality.

D Her interests.

高考英语阅读题：钢琴演奏者学会用多出来的一根机械手指弹奏钢琴

2021-09-23 10:24·奇速英语

导读：最近，英国研究人员探索了机械手指如何影响人的钢琴弹奏能力。该实验包括在12名受试者的右手上安装一个机械手指。其中6人是钢琴手，其余6人则不是。

British researchers have explored how a robotic finger can affect a person’s ability to play the piano. The experiment involved attaching a robotic finger on the right hand of 12 test subjects. Six of the individuals were piano players. Six were not.

The leader of the project was Professor Aldo Faisal, a neuroscientist(神经学家) at Britain’s Imperial College of London. Being a piano player himself, he said he wondered how his playing ability would be affected if he had an extra finger. “So I started really with a robotics challenge,” Faisal said. “Can we build a robotic thumb that can sit on the opposite side of the right hand and play music with it?”

The robotic finger was controlled by electrical signals produced by the foot movements of the piano players. Faisal said the robotic finger felt very unnatural and was difficult for players to get used to at first. But after a few hours using the device, he said it almost felt like “an extension of you.”

Faisal noted that within an hour of being fitted with the robotic finger, six players had learned to use it effectively with the piano keys. “There’s a dedicated area of your brain responsible for every single finger,” Faisal said. “If I give you an eleventh finger...are you processing it the same way as you’re processing a regular limb?”

Researchers involved in the experiment reported that the six pianists and six non-playing volunteers all quickly adapted to using the extra thumb. They said this result suggests people are not limited to using an extra finger only for things they already know how to do.

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1 . Gerson Tavares saved a child’s life when_____.

A he was on his way home

B he drove to deliver the food

C he walked along the street

D he went to meet with his client

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