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One morning, I got into three different taxis and announced,“Well,it"s my first day back in New York in seven years.I"ve been in prison.”Not a single driver replied,so I tried again.“Yeah,I shot a man in Reno.”I explained, hoping the driver would ask me why, but nobody asked.The only response came from a Ghanaian driver,“Reno? That is in Nevada?”
Taxi drivers were uniform sympathetic when I said I"d just been fired.“This is America,”a Haitian driver said.“One door is closed.Another is open.”He argued against my plan to burn down my boss" s house.A Pakistani driver even turned down a chance to profit from my loss of hope;he refused to take me to the middle of the George Washington Bridge—a $20 trip.“Why do you want to go there? Go home and relax.Don"t worry.Take a new job.”
One very hot weekday in July, while wearing a red ski mask and holding a stuffed pillowcase with the word “BANK” on it, I tried calling a taxi five times outside different banks.The driver picked me up every time.My ride with a Haitian driver was typical of the superb assistance I received.
“Let"s go across the park,” I said.“I just robbed the bank there.I got $25,000.”
“$25,000?” he asked.
“Yeah,you think it was wrong to take it?”
“No, man.I work 8 hours and I don"t make almost $70.If I can do that,I will do it too.”
As we approached 86th and Lexington, I pointed to the Chemical Bank.
“Hey,there is another bank,”I said,“Could you wait here a minute while I go inside?”
“No,I can"t wait.Pay me now.” His unwillingness may have had something to do with money—taxi drivers think the rate for waiting time is too low—but I think he wanted me to learn that even a bank robber can"t expect unconditional support.
小题1:From the Ghanaian driver"s response, we can infer that________.
A.he was afraid of the author |
B.he thought the author was crazy |
C.he looked down upon the author |
D.he was indifferent to the killing |
A.Because he was able to help the author to find a new job. |
B.Because he wanted to go home and relax. |
C.Because he thought that the author would commit suicide. |
D.Because it was far away from his home. |
A.the driver thought it wrong to support a taxi rider unconditionally |
B.the driver was frightened and wanted to leave him as soon as possible |
C.the driver did not want to help a suspect to escape from a bank robbery |
D.the driver thought that the rate for waiting time was too low |
A.They are ready to help you do whatever you want to. |
B.They are sympathetic with those who are out of work. |
C.They refuse to pick up those who would kill themselves. |
D.They work only for money. |
A.the way to please taxi riders |
B.the way to deal with taxi riders |
C.taxi drivers" attitude to riders in personal trouble |
D.taxi drivers" attitude to troublesome taxi riders |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:C
解析
小题1:解析 推理判断题。由第二段内容可知,当作者说自己***了人时,没有人表示出惊讶或其他类似惊讶的反应,只有一个司机答话了,而他也只是问具体地点,因此D项正确,即他对此很冷漠。
答案 D
小题2:解析 推理判断题。由第三段可知,当作者告诉司机自己失业,因此感到对生活失去了希望时,他们极力地劝说他不要失去信心。而当作者提出要到华盛顿大桥中央的时候,一位司机拒绝载他,当然是害怕他会自***。即C项合理。
答案 C
小题3:解析 细节理解题。由文章最后一句中的“but I think he wanted me to learn that even a bank robber can"t expect unconditional support”可知答案。
答案 A
小题4:解析 细节理解题。由第三段第一句以及该段提到的两位司机说的话可知,纽约的司机对失业的人是有同情心的。
答案 B
小题5:解析 主旨大意题。通读全文,尤其是根据第一段可知,本文主要介绍出租车司机对乘客的个人麻烦所持的态度。
答案 C
核心考点
试题【In a moment of personal crisis, how much help can you expect from a New York tax】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
Every day she at 4 o’clock in the morning, and then works till dark. One day I called her at 7:30 in the evening. She told me she was in the vineyard and hadn’t had supper yet. Tears ran down my cheeks.
Dear mum, I’ll study hard in the university because I am your . I’ll look after myself because I am to you. I promise you so much but I want you to promise me you will tend yourself and Dad because you are like my blood. I cannot without you.
Mum has ever said that the happiest time for Dad and her is when my sister and I come home. We play cards in the room, watch TV or do else we like, with Dad and Mum delicious food in the kitchen. It is the happiest time for me. I could all the difficulties and unhappiness. The thing to do is to enjoy the time with my parents.
, sometimes, doesnt need many words. Love your parents as they love you. Give them a and tell them you them.
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Sometimes people ____ themselves as one thing and then when you get deep into it you realize that they’re something completely different. Either there was some good marketing ____ to a terrible book, or the story was only explained in a(n) ____ way and once you reach the middle of the book, you realize there’s so much more to this book than anyone could ever have told you.
You start off slow. The story is beginning to ____. You’re unsure. It’s a big commitment reading this tome(巨著). Maybe this book won’t be that great but you’ll feel ____ about putting it down. Maybe it’ll be so awful you’ll set it down immediately and never pick it up again. Or maybe you’ll come back to it some night, drunk or lonely—needing something to ____ the time, but it won’t be any better than it was when you first started reading it.
Maybe you’re ____. You’ve read tons of books before. Maybe you’ve taken some time off from reading because the last few books you read just weren’t ____ it. Do they even write new, great works of literature anymore? Maybe it’s a once in a lifetime feeling and you’re never going to find it again.
Or something ____ could happen. Maybe this will become your new favorite book. There’s always a possibility, right? That’s the ____ of risk. You ____ your time and your brain power in the words and what you get back is a new understanding and pure wonder.
How could someone possibly know you like this? Some stranger, some author, some character. It’s like they’re seeing inside your ____. This book existed inside some book store, on a shelf, maybe handled by other people and really it was just ____ for you to pick it up. It was waiting to speak to you. To say, “You are not ____.”
You just want more of the story. You want to keep reading, maybe everything this author has ever ____. You wish it would never end. The closer it gets to the smaller side of the pages, the ____ you read, wanting to savor(品味) it all. This book is now one of your favorites forever. You will always wish you could go back to ____ having read it and pick it up fresh again, but also you know you’re better for having this close, inside you, ____ your heart and mind.
Reading a book is just like falling in love. Once you get in deep enough, you know you could never put this book down.
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"Previous research has shown that paying people more than they expect may elicit reciprocity(相互作用) in the form of greater productivity," notes Deepak Malhotra, a Harvard business-administration professor who worked on the study. What he and his colleagues found, however, was that the connection between more pay and extra effort depends on presenting the increase "as a gift—that is, as something you"ve chosen to do purely as a nice gesture, with no strings attached."
Malhotra and his team studied 267 people hired by oDesk, a global online network of freelancers, to do a one-time data-entry project for four hours. All of the new hires were people in developing countries, for whom hourly wages of $3 and $4 were higher than what they had been making in previous jobs.
The researchers split the group up into three equal parts. One group was told they would earn $3 an hour. A second group was initially hired at $3 an hour but, before they started working, they got a surprise: The budget for the project had expanded unexpectedly, they were told, and they would now be paid $4 an hour. The third group was offered $4 an hour from the start and given no increase.
Even though the second and third groups were eventually paid the same amount, the second group worked harder and produced more—about 20% more—than either of the other two. People in the second group also showed the most stamina, maintaining their focus all the way through the assigned task and performing especially well toward the end of the four hours. Interestingly, the more experienced employees in the high-performing group were the most productive of all, apparently because their previous work experience led them to appreciate the rarity of an unexpected raise.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Malhotra points out that higher pay, in and of itself, didn"t promote productivity: People who made $4 an hour from the beginning worked no harder than those who were hired at $3 and were then paid $3.
To get the most impact from their pay plans, he adds, companies might consider not only what to pay new hires, but when to pay it.
"The key thing is how you present [the reason for an increase]," he says. Doling out extra money could promote productivity most "if you make it clear that the pay raise is something you"re choosing to do just because you can. Our theory is that people will reciprocate. If you do something nice, they"ll do something nice back."
小题1:Which of the following is true about the research?
A.None of the participants earned more than $4 an hour in previous jobs. |
B.89 of the participants got a $1 wage raise for their high productivity. |
C.It was so important that the budget for it was increased in the process. |
D.Stamina shown in it was positively related to the amount of money paid. |
A.The quality of being intelligent or clever. |
B.The quality of doing something difficult or dangerous. |
C.The physical or mental energy needed to do a tiring activity for a long time. |
D.A particular method of doing an activity, usually involving practical skills. |
A.Because they thought they were better paid than the other groups. |
B.Because they were experienced employees from developing countries. |
C.Because an unexpected raise reminded them of their previous work. |
D.Because they felt they were nicely treated and tried best to repay it. |
A.No pains, no gains. |
B.It matters not what we give but how. |
C.Honesty is the best policy. |
D.Actions speak louder than words. |
Now, what have kids done? ___________B____________. Well, Anne Frank touched millions with her powerful account of the Holocaust (大屠***), Ruby Bridges helped end segregation(隔离) in the United States, and, most recently, Charlie Simpson helped to raise 120,000 pounds for Haiti on his little bike. So, as you can see evidenced by such examples, age has absolutely nothing to do with it. We are called childish so often by adults that we should abolish this age-discrimination when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.
Then again, who"s to say that certain types of irrational thinking aren"t exactly what the world needs? Maybe you"ve had grand plans before, but stopped yourself, thinking: That"s impossible or that costs too much or that won"t benefit me. For better or worse, we kids aren"t hampered as much when it comes to thinking about reasons why not to do things. ___________C____________. Kids can be full of inspiring aspirations and hopeful thinking, like my wish that no one went hungry or that everything were free kind of utopia(乌托邦). How many of you still dream like that and believe in the possibilities? Sometimes a knowledge of history and the past failures of utopian ideals can be a burden. On the other hand, we kids still dream about perfection. ___________D____________. And that"s a good thing because in order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.
Now, our inborn wisdom doesn"t have to be insiders" knowledge. Kids already do a lot of learning from adults, and we have a lot to share. I think that adults should start learning from kids. Now, I do most of my speaking in front of an education crowd, teachers and students, and I like this analogy. It shouldn"t just be a teacher at the head of the classroom telling students to do this, do that. The students should teach their teachers. Learning between grown ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it. Now, if you don"t trust someone, you place restrictions on them, right. If I doubt my older sister"s ability to pay back the 10 percent interest I established on her last loan, I"m going to withhold her ability to get more money from me until she pays it back.
True story, by the way. Now, adults seem to have a prevalently restrictive attitude towards kids from every "don"t do that," "don"t do this" in the school handbook, to restrictions on school internet use. Kids have no, or very little, say in making the rules, when really the attitude should be reciprocal(相互的), meaning that the adult population should learn and take into account the wishes of the younger population.
Adults, you need to listen and learn from kids. The world needs opportunities for new leaders and new ideas. Kids need opportunities to lead and succeed. Are you ready to make the match?
小题1:Where should the sentence “This really bothers me.” be put in the passage?
A. In blank A. B. In blank B.
C. In blank C. D. In blank D.
小题2:What does the speaker think is the root cause why adults call kids childish?
A.That kids like being called that way. |
B.That adults are more irresponsible than kids. |
C.That kids often make irrational demands. |
D.That adults are driven by age-discrimination against kids. |
A.Younger age. | B.Irrational thinking. |
C.Knowledge of history. | D.Excess restrictions. |
A.Don’t Be Childish again, Adults! |
B.Time to Listen and Learn from Us! |
C.Don’t Do That, Don’t Do This! |
D.We Are Not Young Any More! |
Sixteen is a ____age,when a young man wants respect,not charity. It was 1976,and the ugly ___ of racial discrimination was ____ a fact of life. I’d seen my friends ask for credit and then stand,head down,while the store owner ___ whether they were “good for it.” I knew black youths just like me who were ___ like thieves by the store clerk each time they went into a grocery.
My family was ___.We paid our debts. But before harvest,cash was short. Would the store owner ____ us?
At Davis’s store,Buck Davis stood behind the cash desk,talking to a farmer. I nodded ____ I passed him on my way to the hardware shelves. When I brought my ____ to the cash desk,I said ____,“I need to put this on credit.”
The farmer gave me an amused,distrustful ___.But Buck’s face didn’t change. “Sure,” he said ___.“Your daddy is ___ good for it.” He ___ to the other man. “This here is one of James Williams’s sons.”
The farmer nodded in a neighborly __.I was filled with pride. James Williams’s son. Those three words had opened a door to an adult’s respect and trust.
That day I discovered that the good name my parents had ____ brought our whole family the respect of our neighbors. Everyone knew what to ___ from a Williams: a decent person who kept his word and respected himself ____ much to do wrong.
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