62.解析：这是一道主旨题。这篇短文讲述了一位美国人为了去教堂而违反了美国安全法，而被罚款$10 000美元。所以An Expensive Church
Visit是最佳题目。
第5题(2005年普通高等学校夏季招生考试英语全国卷Ⅱ(不含听力卷))
The days of elderly women doing nothing
but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat Society －a group holding the
belief that old ladies should have fun.
“My grandmothers didn’t do anything but
keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that,” said Emily
Cornette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society.
While men have
long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have sometimes seemed to
become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is the baby
boomers(生育高峰期出生的人), and the same people
who refused their parents’ way of being young are now trying a new way of
growing old.
If you take into consideration feminism(女权主义), a bit of spare
money, and better health for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost
inevitable(必然的). In this society,
women over 50 wear red hats and purple(紫色的) clothes, while the women under 50 wear pink hats
and light purple clothing.
“The organization took the idea from a
poem by Jenny Joseph that begins: “When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple.
With a red hat which doesn’t go,” said Ellen Cooper, who founded the Red Hat
Society in 1998. When the ladies started to wear the red hats, they attracted
lots of attention.
“The point of this is
that we need a rest from always doing something for someone else,” Cooper said.
“Women feel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for themselves.” This
is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything useful.
“We’re a ladies’ play group. It couldn’t be more simple,” added Cooper’s
assistant Joe Heywood.