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声明：阅读题作者为安徽省合肥八中铭传高中 高一英语学科组长 徐建国老师 A篇 “The first shipment of masks and coronavirus test kits to the US is taking off from Shanghai. All the best to our friends in America.”Jack Ma said on his first tweet. Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, the co-founder of the online retail giant Alibaba, said he is donating 500,000 testing kits and 1 million masks to the United States to fight the spread of coronavirus. The China-made protective gear and test kits took off from Shanghais airport in a chartered cargo plane Monday morning, and will be handed over to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) when they arrive. Up to now, the tweet has received more than 470,000 likes. Meanwhile, the American netizen also actively gave their replies in the comment area.?“I feel like we are now a third world country but your kind is appreciated. Gratitude!”?a netizen said. The Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation have donated much-needed materials to regions suffering in the epidemic over the past few weeks, including Japan, South Korea, Italy, Egypt, Iran and Spain, according to a tweet from the Jack Ma Foundation on Friday. Ma said the outbreak presents a huge challenge to all humankind in a globalized world, and that he has drawn from his own countrys experience that quick and accurate testing as well as protective equipment for medical personnel are most effective in preventing the spread of the virus. The past two months show us that if we take it very seriously and are?proactive, we are more than capable of containing the virus. Now it is as if we were all living in the same forest on fire. As members of the global community, it would be irresponsible of us to sit on the fence, panic, ignore facts or fail to act. We need to take action now! ?According to the underlined sentence, what did the netizen really want to convey? ?He felt that he was looked down on but still showed his gratitude to Jack Ma. B.?He thought that the US is the greatest country but still showed