题目内容
阅读理解
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中选出最佳选项。
I'm seventeen. I had worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Los Angeles. People came to the counter and you put things in their bags for them. And carried things to their cars. It was hard work.
While working, you wear a plate with your name on it. I once met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said,“Mr. Castle, how are you?”We talked about this and that. As he left, he said,“It was nice talking to you, Brett.”I felt great, he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh, no. He didn't remember me at all, he just read the name plate. I wish I had put“Irving”down on my name plate. If he'd have said,“Oh, yes, Irving, how could I forget you?”I'd have been ready for him. There's nothing personal here.
The manager and everyone else who were a step above the box boys often shouted orders. One of these was: you couldn't accept tips (小费). Okay, I'm outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction (反应) is to take a quarter and give it to me. I'd say,“I'm sorry, I can't.”They'd get angry. When you give someone a tip, you're sort of being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hand and you expect them to say.“Oh, thanks a lot.”When you say,“I'm sorry, I can't,”they feel a little put down. They say,“No one will know.”And they put it in your pocket. You say,“I really can't.”It gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person physically(身体上) to prevent him from tipping you. It was not in agreement with the store's belief in being friendly. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just couldn't understand the strangeness of people's ideas. One lady actually put it in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I would have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something.
I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and feed. I guess I had the means and could afford to hate it and give it up.
1．What can be the best title for this text?
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A．How Hard Life is for Box Boys.
B．Getting along with Customers.
C．Why I Gave up My Job.
D．The Art of Taking Tips.
2．From the second paragraph we can infer that ________.
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A．the writer didn't like the impersonal part of his job
B．with a name plate, people can easily start talking
C．Mr Castle mistook Irving for Brett
D．Irving was the writer's real name
3．The box boy refused to accept tips because ________.
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A．customers only gave small tips
B．he didn't want to fight with the customers
C．the store forbade the box boys to take tips
D．some customers had strange ideas about tipping
4．The underlined part“put down”(in Paragraph 3 ) probably means ________.
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解析：
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1．C 导解：全文讲述作为行包员，“我”处处感受到人们对“我”的没人情味，“我”不明白人们为何会有那些strange ideas，最后的结论是hate it and give it up. 2．A 导解：第二段中，作者遇到一个老熟人，与之交谈，结果发现对方根本不记得他，于是Irving Brett感慨地说There's nothing personal here.因此选A． 3．C 导解：从第三段中可知其中一个命令是“你不能接受小费”。 4．D 导解：从一连串的动作来看，顾客本能地给小费，被拒后get angry，再次被拒后会觉得自尊心受伤害，选D． |
