复合题

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.

Text 1

It was midnight in Paris and we were rolling toward the Avenue Bosguet. As we came to the Pont Alexandre Ⅲ, the cab slowed down, for the traffic light was red again, and then without stopping, we sailed through the red light in a sudden burst of speed. The same performance was repeated at the Alma Bridge. As I paid the driver, I asked him why he had driven through two red lights.

“You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a veteran like you, breaking the law and endangering your life that way.” I protested.

He looked at me astonished. “Ashamed of myself? I am a law abiding citizen and have no desire to get killed either.” He cut me off before I could protest.

“No, just listen to me before you complain. What did I do? Went through a red light. Well, did you ever stop to consider what a red light is, what it means?”

“Certainly,” I replied. “It’s a stop signal and means that traffic is rolling in the opposite direction.”

 “Half-right,” said the driver, but incomplete. It is only an automatic stop signal. And it does not mean that there is cross traffic. Did you see any cross traffic during our trip? Of course not. I slowed down at the light looked carefully to the right and to the left. Not another car on the streets at this hour. Well, then! What would you have me do? Should I stop like a dumb animal because an automatic, brainless machine turns red every forty seconds? “No, monsieur,” he thundered, hitting the door with a huge fist. “I am a man not a machine. I have eyes and a brain and judgment given me by God. It would be a sin against nature to surrender them to the dictates of a machine. Ashamed of myself you say? I would only be ashamed of myself I let those blinking lamps do my thinking for me. Good night monsieur?”

 Is this bad is this good? Frankly I no longer am sure. I never doubted that it was wrong to drive through a red light, but now I find my old Anglo-Saxon standards somewhat shaken. 

单选题 At the Alma Bridge _____.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】细节理解题。 由关键词“Alma Bridge”可定位至第一段倒数第二句“The same performance was repeated at the Alma Bridge”， 该车闯红灯两次， 符合B项的描述， 故B项正确。
单选题 To the cab driver, a red light _____.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】细节理解题。 文章倒数第二段提到， 该司机认为红灯只是一个自动的停止信号， 它不意味着前方会有交叉车流。 因此， D项符合文意。 A项与原文不符。 B， C两项文章没有提到。
单选题 The chief reason the driver dared to drive through the red light was that _____.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】细节推理题。 从文章倒数第二段可知， 该司机认为红灯不意味着前方会有交叉车流， 而且他又说到自己有自己的判断， 不需要机器帮他做决定。 因此A项正确。
单选题 According to the passage, the driver thought of what he had done as _____.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】细节推理题。 从整篇文章可以看出， 该司机不仅认为自己闯红灯的行为没有违反法律， 而且他又向作者解释到自己是一个具有独立思考能力的人， 不需要机器来替他做决定。 所以， 该司机认为自己的做法是守法的， 故选A项。
单选题 The last sentence shows that the writer is probably _____.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】细节推理题。 由文章最后一句可知， 作者说他的旧式英式思维受到了动摇。 从这可以推断出作者很有可能是一个英国人， 所以选C项。