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If you have ever gone through a toll booth(收费所), 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."
【小题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. To attend a party
B. B. To have a meal
C. To dance with the worker in the toll booth
D. To hand in the repair fee of his car
【小题3】The underlined name “Lazarus” mentioned in the eighth paragraph probably refers to a person___________.
A. who was very active in his life
B. B. who was dead and revived from death
C. who was going to San Francisco
D. who liked dancing at work
【小题4】According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
| 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. |
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With the invention of the Internet several decades ago, do you feel that since then it has made us human beings feel more connected to the world and one another, or has it isolated(使孤立)us and made us feel more alone than ever before?
What about you as an individual?
● 2 The Internet enables us to know what’s happening in the world．We couldn't imagine talking to people everywhere in the world twenty years ago．
● 3 It unites us because we talk to others from all around our country and the world, but the Internet can be addicting, and keep us away from people for a while, There is an inherent(内在的)human need for direct human contact(e．g．touching, talking face to face, etc．)that the Internet has all taken away．
● 4 It has given me freedom beyond my imagination．I’m home-bound with many duties to attend to．My life is a bit too crowded．Duties duties duties．I get lost many times not knowing who I really am！This medium is my best friend．It just lets me BE！I can speak here without fear or favor．
● 5 Chatting online is completely different from hanging out with friends outside or hearing their voice over the phone．I find that it’s not just the Internet that has increased this sense of isolation, even iPods, MP3s, such devices can separate us, make us lose focus on the everyday happenings of life．
A．I think that the Internet isolates as well as unites us．
B．I believe it unites us more than it isolates us．
C．Do you feel that the Internet unites us or isolates us?
D．What is happening in the world today?
E．The Internet is playing a more and more important role．
F．I think it has isolated us more．
G．I am truly grateful for this new technology．
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A．Not really B．Not exactly C．Not simply D．Not nearly
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A. shall play B. playing C. play D. to play
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John Russell, 83 years old, got on a Chicago bus. He saw a sign 1 that senior citizens could ride for half price. When he 2 three quarters (75 cents) into the box, the driver asked 3 his ID card. John took out his ID card. “You need a 4 CTA card,” said the driver. John did not 5 the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) card 6 he lived in New York and was in Chicago 7 his two sons.
“Then you need to put in 8 three quarters,”said the driver, “ 9 get off the bus.”
Old People are usually very stubborn. John said, “Give me back my three quarters, and I’ll 10 .”
“I 11 — it’s in the box. If you don’t get off, I’ll call the 12 ,” said the driver, and he did. Two police cars pulled up.
John and the driver told the police their 13 . “That’s why you called?” one policeman asked the driver. The other policeman then said to John, “I’ll give you three quarters.”
John shook his head, “Why should you give me the quarters? He should 14 me my three quarters. ”
“Where are you going?” asked the policeman. “Downtown to have lunch with friends,” John said.
“Come on,” the policeman said, “We’ll get you your card.” So they took him downtown to the CTA office. But the people there wouldn’t give him a CTA card — he needed a(n) 15 .
“What about his three quarters?” one policeman asked. The officials discussed, and a 16 was made to give John’s quarters back.
“ 17 are you going to get there?”
“By bus. And all I’m going to pay is 75 cents. ”
“ 18 ,” the policeman said.
John got on a 19 , dropped three quarters in the box, and said, “I’m a senior citizen ....” The driver looked at John and 20 . He didn’t know how lucky he was to be a wise man.
1. A. telling B. speaking C. saying D. explaining
2. A. dropped B. gave C. paid D. spent
3. A. after B. about C. for D. back
4. A. strange B. special C. especial D. true
5. A. buy B. change C. have D. pay
6. A. where B. when C. because D. where
7. A. visiting B. finding C. calling D. looking
7. A. more B. much C. other D. another
9. A. and B. so C. but D. or
10. A. get in B. take off C. take in D. get off
11. A. can’t B. needn’t C. shouldn’t D. mustn’t
12. A. manager B. official C. police D. public
13. A. reasons B. excuses C. stories D. words
14. A. return B. pass C. hand D. pay
15. A. picture B. paper C. explanation D. payment
16. A. suggestion B. promise C. decision D. mistake
17. A. Where B. How C. Where D. Why
18. A. Good luck B. Congratulations C. It depends D. No way
19. A. bus B. police car C. box D. step
20. A. disagreed B. nodded C. laughed D. shook
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