If you have ever gone through a toll booth(收費(fèi)所), you know that your relationship to the person in the booth is not the most intimate you'll ever have. It is one of life's frequent affairs: You hand over some money; you might get change; you drive off.
Late one morning in 1984, headed for lunch in San Francisco, I drove toward a booth. I heard loud music. It sounded like a party. I looked around. No other cars with their windows open. No sound trucks. I looked at the toll booth. Inside it, the man was dancing.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"I'm having a party," he said.
"What about the rest of the people?" I looked at the other toll booths.
He said, "What do those look like to you?" He pointed down the row of toll booths.
"They look like……toll booths. What do they look like to you?"
He said, "Vertical coffins. At 8:30 every morning, live people get in. Then they die for eight hours. At 4:30, like Lazarus from the dead, they reemerge and go home. For eight hours, brain is on hold, dead on the job. Going through the motions."
I was amazed. This guy had developed a philosophy, a mythology about his job. Sixteen people dead on the job, and the seventeenth, in precisely the same situation, figures out a way to live. I could not help asking the next question: "Why is it different for you? You're having a good time."
He looked at me. "I knew you were going to ask that. I don't understand why anybody would think my job is boring. I have a corner office, glass on all sides. I can see the Golden Gate, San Francisco, and the Berkeley hills. Half the Western world vacations here……and I just stroll in every day and practice dancing."
【小題1】According to the first paragraph, in most cases, how do you describe the relationship between drivers and toll booth?
A.most intimate | B.very tense | C.pretty ordinary | D.extremely hostile |
A.The author passed by the toll booth every day. |
B.The worker enjoyed his work very much. |
C.Only western people like to spend their holidays in the Berkeley hills. |
D.The dancing worker was getting badly along with his colleagues. |
A.go to the worker’s senior to complain about his bad attitude towards job. |
B.go climbing the Golden Gate and the Berkeley hills to have a vacation. |
C.learn to take a positive attitude to job and appreciate valuable things in life. |
D.go back home instead of wasting time traveling to San Francisco. |
【小題1】C
【小題2】B
【小題3】B
【小題4】B
【小題5】C
解析試題分析:本文敘述了作者經(jīng)過收費(fèi)戰(zhàn)時(shí),看見特別引人矚目的一個(gè)收費(fèi)站的工作人員,他在工作時(shí)還在不斷地跳舞,他把他們的工作室收費(fèi)亭看成直立的棺材,他的同事每早八點(diǎn)半,活的人進(jìn)去。然后他們死亡八個(gè)小時(shí)。下午四點(diǎn)半,就像死人中的拉撒路,他們復(fù)活回到家中。整整八個(gè)小時(shí),頭腦思維中斷,他們只是呆板地工作,重復(fù)著相同的動(dòng)作。而這位工作人員幾乎處于同樣的情況,卻找到另外一種生活方式。
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)you know that your relationship to the person in the booth is not the most intimate you'll ever have.你就會(huì)知道你與亭子里的這個(gè)人關(guān)系不是最親密的,這是生命中經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)的非偶遇者。故選C。
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Late one morning in 1984, headed for lunch in San Francisco我驅(qū)車往舊金山吃午飯,故選B。
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Then they die for eight hours. from the dead, they reemerge and go home. 然后他們死亡八個(gè)小時(shí)。下午四點(diǎn)半,就像死人中的拉撒路,他們復(fù)活回到家中。故選B。
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)I don't understand why anybody would think my job is boring. I have a corner office, glass on all sides. I can see the Golden Gate, San Francisco, and the Berkeley hills. Half the Western world vacations here……and I just stroll in every day and practice dancing."故選B。
【小題5】推理判斷題。根據(jù)This guy had developed a philosophy, a mythology about his job.這個(gè)小伙子發(fā)展了一種哲學(xué),創(chuàng)造了一個(gè)有關(guān)工作的神話,故選C。
考點(diǎn):人生百味類短文閱讀。
點(diǎn)評(píng):推理判斷題屬于主觀題,是層次較高的題目。它包括判斷和推理題。這兩類題常常相互依存,推理是為了做出正確的判斷,正確的判斷又依賴于合乎邏輯的推理。該題要求在理解表面文字的基礎(chǔ)上做出判斷和推論,從而得到文章的隱含意思和深層意思,也就是通過文章中的文字信息,上下邏輯關(guān)系及事物的發(fā)展變化等已知信息,推斷出作者沒有直接表達(dá)的態(tài)度和觀點(diǎn)。
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