甲、乙系好朋友，甲因事需中国两年。出国前，甲将一批名贵药材交乙并嘱乙善为保管。乙将其与自己的贵重物品放在一起。两年后甲归国，打开药品发现已发霉变质。经查系当地雨水过多，天气潮湿所致。对甲的损失乙应否负责
A．乙不应负责
B．乙应负责
C．甲、乙应平均分担责任
D．乙只应赔偿甲通常药材的价值
参考答案：A
解析： 本题涉及保管合同中保管人的赔偿责任问题。依《合同法》第374条的规定，保管期间，因保管不善造成保管物毁损灭失的，保管人应当承担损害赔偿责任；但无偿保管的，保管人能证明自己无重大过失的，不承担赔偿责任。故本题选项为A。
| Phyllis Wheatley is regarded as America’s first black poet. She was born in Senegal, Africa, about 1753 and brought to America aboard a slave ship at about the age of seven. John and Susannah Wheatley bought her for three pounds at a slave auction in Boston in 1761 to be a personal servant of Mrs. Wheatley. The family had three other slaves, and all were treated with respect. Phyllis was soon accepted as one of the family, which included being raised and educated with the Wheatley’s twin 15-year-old children, Mary and Nathaniel. At that time, most females, even from better families, could not read and write, but Mary was probably one of the best educated young women in Boston. Mary wanted to become a teacher, and in fact, it was Mary who decided to take charge of Phyllis’s education. Phyllis soon displayed her remarkable talents. At the age of twelve she was reading the Greek and Latin classics and passages from the Bible. And eventually, Mrs. Wheatley decided Phyllis should become a Christian. At the age of thirteen Phyllis wrote her first poem. She became a Boston sensation after she wrote a poem on the death of the evangelical preacher George Whitfield in 1770. It became common practice in Boston to have "Mrs. Wheatley’s Phyllis" read poetry in polite society. Mary married in 1771, and Phyllis later moved to the country because of poor health, as a teacher and caretaker to a farmer’s three children. Mary had tried to interest publishers in Phyllis’s poems but once they heard she was a Negro they weren’t interested. Then in 1773 Phyllis went with Nathaniel, who was now a businessman, to London. It was thought that a sea voyage might improve her health. Thirty-nine of her poems were published in London as Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. It was the first book published by a black American. In 1775 Phyllis wrote a poem extolling the accomplishments of George Washington and sent it to him. He responded by praising her talents and inviting her to visit his headquarters. After both of her benefactors died in 1777, and Mary died in 1778, Phyllis was freed as a slave. She married in 1778, moved away from Boston, and had three children. But after the unhappy marriage, she moved back to Boston, and died in poverty at the age of thirty. |
The underlined word "eventually" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to
A．ultimately
B．slowly
C．reluctantly
D．gradually