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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 15.What is the text mainly about? A.Alice Munro and her hometown. B.Alice Munro and her writing style. C.Alice Munro’s representative works. D.The awards Alice Munro won. 解析　主旨大意题。文章主要介绍了Alice Munro及她的写作风格。 √ 答案 解析 12 13 11 14 15 D (2017·天津一中4月考) Since 2011，the former railway engineer has been driving around the city every single day，looking for abandoned tar(柏油) and gravel(碎石) on roadsides.He collects the material and uses it to fill potholes(坑洼)，at times spending his own pension money to do it.Tilak，earning himself the nickname “road engineer”，doesn’t restrict himself to his neighborhood —he patches up every pothole he can find in the city. “After working for the South Central Railway in India for 35 years，I retired in October 2008 and spent some time off in 2009，also traveling to the US to meet my son，”Tilak told the local media.“In January 2010，I came back and took up a job as a consultant in a software agency.” “I was driving to my first day of office when I ended up splashing dirty mud water on school children after my car fell into a pothole on the road，” he recalled.“Then a few more accidents followed at various places.” He kept explaining to the police that these accidents wouldn’t have occurred if the roads had been smooth.But then he witnessed a major accident that changed everything. Tilak decided to take charge of matters himself.“After that，I quit my job and for the next year till June 2012，I spent my pension money in fixing roads，” he said. Tilak’s wife was worried about his health and called his son to talk some sense into him.But the son was so impressed that he ended up helping Tilak instead，by setting up a website and Facebook page.As more and more residents got to know of it，they began to show up and help Tilak fix the city’s potholes.Today，they even have a helpline where people can call to complain about potholes in their areas. Tilak’s son also managed to get the government on their side.Tilak doesn’t accept don