每日一练：职称英语考试综合类每日一练(2019/5/16)
【单选题】
Taxi Riding
In a moment of personal crisis, how much helpcan you expect from a New York taxi driver? I began studying this questionafter watching the "Taxicab Confessions," a series of documentariesin which hidden cameras record the secrets of unsuspecting taxi riders. I foundthe results varied.
One morning I got into three different taxisand 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 wouldask me why, so I could say casually," Just to watch him die." Butnobody asked. The only response came from a Ghanaian driver: "Reno? Thatis in Nevada?"
Taxi drivers were uniformly sympathetic when Isaid I'd just been fired. "This is America," a Haitian driver said."One door is closed. Another is open." He argued against my plan toburn down my boss's house: "If you do something silly and they put you away,you cannot look for another job." A Pakistani driver even turned down achance to profit from my loss of hope: he refused to take me to the middle ofthe George Washington Bridge, a $20 trip. "Why you want to go there? Gohome and relax. Don't worry. Take a new job."
One very hot weekday in July, while wearing ared ski mask and holding a stuffed pillowcase with the work "BANK" onit, I tried hailing a taxi five times outside different banks. The driverpicked me up every time. My ride with Guy-Caaude Thevenain, a Haitian driver,was typical of the superb assistance I received.
"Is anyone following us?"
"No," said the driver, looking in hisrearview mirror at traffic and me.
"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 takeit?"
"No, man, I work 8 hours and I don't makealmost $70. If I can do that, I do it too."
As we approached 86th and Lexington, I pointedto the Chemical Bank.
"Hey, there's another bank," I said,"could you wait here a minute while I go inside?"
"No, I can't wait. Pay me now." Hisreluctance may have had something to do with money -taxi drivers think the ratefor waiting time is too low -but I think he wanted me to learn that even a bankrobber can't expect unconditional support.
1. From the Ghanaian driver's response, we caninfer that
A) he was indifferent to the killing.
B) he was afraid of the author.
C) he looked down upon the author.
D) he thought the author was crazy.
2. Why did the Pakistani driver refuse to takethe author to the middle of the George Washington Bridge?
A) Because he didn't want to help the authorget over his career crisis.
B) Because he wanted to go home and relax.
C) Because it was far away from his home.
D) Because he suspected that the author wasgoing to commit suicide.
3. What is author's interpretation of thedriver's reluctance "to wait outside the Chemical bank"?
A) The driver thought that the rate for waitingtime was too low.
B) The driver thought it wrong to support ataxi rider unconditionally.
C) The driver was frightened and wanted toleave him as soon as possible.
D) The driver wanted to go home and relax.
4. Which of the following statements is trueabout New York taxi drivers?
A) They are ready to help you do whatever youwant to.
B) They refuse to pick up those who would killthemselves.
C) They are sympathetic with those who are outof work.
D) They work only for money.
5. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A) How to make taxi riders comfortable.
B) How to deal with taxi riders.
C) The attitudes of taxi drivers towards thetaxi riders having personal crises.
D) The attitudes of taxi drivers towardsviolent criminals.
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