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摘要： What does Diaz say about using the cable? A. He does not find it as frightening as other things. B. He does not think there is any risk. C. He is happy that he can help the teacher. D. He is worried about the danger of snakes B Humor is a most effective, yet frequently neglected ,means of handling the difficult situations in our lives. It can be used for patching up differences, apologizing, saying “no, criticizing, getting the other fellow to do what you want without his losing face .For some jobs, it’s the only tool that can succeed. It is a way to discuss subjects so sensitive that serious dialogue may start a quarrel. For example, many believe that comedians on television are doing more today for racial and religious tolerance than people in any other forum. Humor is often the best way to keep a small misunderstanding from escalating into a big deal .Recently a neighbor of mine had a squabble with his wife as she drove him to the airport .Airborne, he felt miserable, and he knew she did, too. Two hours after she returned home, she received a long-distance phone call.“person-to-person for Mrs. I .A .Pologize, intoned the operator. “That’s spelled`P’as in-. .In a twinkling, the whole day changed from grim to lovely at both ends of the wire. An English hostess with a quick wit was giving a formal dinner for eight distinguished guests whom she hoped to enlist in a major charity drive. Austerity was a fashion in England at the time, and she had asked her children to serve the meal. She knew that anything could happen----and it did, just as her son, with the studied concentration of a tightrope walker ,brought in a large roast turkey. He successfully elbowed the swinging dining-room door, but the backswing threw the bird onto the dining-room floor. The boy stood rooted: guests stared at their plates .Moving only her head the hostess smiled at her son, “No harm, Daniel , she said. “Just pick him up and take him back to the kitchen - she enunciated clearly so he would think about what she was saying - “and bring in the other one . A wink and a one-liner instantly changed the dinner from a red-faced embarrassment to a conspiracy of fun.

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Robinson Diaz lives in a small cottage high in the Andes Mountains of South America. Diaz is a “cable racer”, and every morning he faces the difficult task of taking the local teacher to her school. To do this, he first walks for an hour up to a place the locals call Los Pinos, right at the edge of the 400-foot deep gorge of the Negro valley. Here, one end of a thick metal cable has been fixed to a wooden post. The cable stretches right across the deep valley to the other side, a kilometer away.

A metal hook is fixed to the cable, with leather straps hanging from it. Diaz fastens the straps around his shoulders and waist, does a quick safety check and then, without hesitating, throws himself off the edge of the mountain. Attached to the cable by only the metal hook, he rapidly picks up speed and soon he is racing through the air. Crossing the valley by wire takes him 30 seconds, instead of the two hours it would take him to walk down through the rain forest and climb up the steep muddy slopes on the other side.

As Diaz begins his trip, Diana Rios, a 23-year-old elementary teacher, is waiting on the other side of the gorge for the moment when he will come racing through the mist towards her at 100 mph. She will then return with him, hanging on to him as he goes back along the cable. Diana had no idea when she took the teaching job that just getting to work in the village school would be dangerous. "At first I wanted to cry," she says, clutching her hook as the metal cable starts to rattle violently at Diaz’s approach. “But I soon got used to it.” She still prefers to go with Diaz, though, rather than making the frightening and dangerous crossing on her own.

For the inhabitants of Los Pinos, the wire cable is a lifeline. For more than 50 years, it has served the community as a form of transport to and from the rest of the world. Everything that comes arrives via the cable----bricks and wood for building, sacks of rice and corn. Pregnant mothers, who must get to the nearest clinic, cross the wire during the darkness of the night, returning with their newborn babies. It is dangerous, but they have no choice.

This time Robinson Diaz makes a perfect landing on Diana’s side of the gorge. For him, the dangers of this daily journey are insignificant. “What I’m really scared of are snakes,” he says. “This is nothing in comparison.” Then Dianna straps herself into her harness and hooks herself up to the wire behind Diaz, holding on to him tightly. He turns, flashes her a smile, releases the brake and kicks away. Within seconds, the teacher and the cable-racer have disappeared back into the mist.

60．Robinson Diaz has a difficult task every morning because he has to________.

A．climb a long way up a mountain B．get to the edge of a valley

C．walk through a dangerous area D．help someone get to work

61．In the second paragraph, the writer suggests that Diaz is________.

A．confident about what he is doing B．unaware of the danger he faces

C．careless about his own safety D．uncertain of what he is doing

62．What is Diana's opinion about the journey now?

A．She enjoys it. B．She no longer finds it a problem.

C．It makes her feel very frightened. D．It would be impossible without Diaz.

63．What does Diaz say about using the cable?

A．He does not find it as frightening as other things.

B．He does not think there is any risk.

C．He is happy that he can help the teacher.

D．He is worried about the danger of snakes

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