单选题 One silly question I simply cannot tolerate is "How do you feel?" Usually the question is asked of a man in action—a man walking along the street, or busily working at his desk. So what do you expect him to say? He"ll probably say, "Fine, I"m all right." But you have put a bug in his ear—maybe now he is not sure. If you are his good friend, you may have seen something on his face, or in his walk, that he overlooked that morning. It makes him worrying a little. He looks in a mirror to see if everything is all right, while you go merrily on your way asking someone else, "How do you feel?"
Every question has its time and place. It"s perfectly acceptable, for instance, to ask "How do you feel?" if you are visiting a close friend in the hospital. But if the fellow is walking on both legs, hurrying to take a train or sitting at his desk working, it"s no time to ask him that silly question.
When George Bernard Shaw, the famous British writer of plays was in his eighties, someone asked him, "How do you feel?" Shaw put him in his place. "When you reach my age," he said, "either you feel all right or you are dead."
单选题 According to the writer, greetings, such as "How do you feel?" ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】本文说的是:有人不分时间和场合地使用问候语“How do you feel?”(你感觉如何?)简直使人无法忍受。从文章中的第一个句子我们就可以推断出本题的正确答案是D“通常会使人感觉不自在”。
单选题 The question "How do you feel?" seems to be correct and suitable when asked of ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本题问在何时用“How do you feel?”这个句子来问候似乎是比较恰当合适的。通读一下全文,我们可以从第二段第二句中找到与本题答案相关的提示信息。这句话指出,在医院探望生病的好朋友时此问候语就比较合适。由此可知本题的正确答案应为A“生病的朋友”。
单选题 George Bernard Shaw"s reply in this passage shows his ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】本题是一道具体细节题。问文章中萧伯纳的回答表现了他的什么性格。利用查阅式阅读法,我们可以在本文最后两个句子中找到相关信息:萧伯纳的回答使问“How do you feel?”这个问题的人自讨没趣,由此可见他的回答是很机智幽默的。因此,本题的正确答案应是B。
单选题 "You have put a bug in his ear" means that you have ______
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】本题是考查句子含义类问题,目的是要求考生根据上下文理解词组“put a bug in his ear”的意义。利用查阅式阅读法找到与此相关的上下文,我们可以推断出你问候从事各种正常活动的人“How do you feel?”可能暗示着他还存在未曾意识到的某些问题。因此选择项A、B和C没有在上下文中表现出来,而D“似乎在提醒他什么”,这个选项的内容刚好表现了原文的信息。所以,本题的正确答案应是D。
单选题 This passage can be entitled ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本题是关于全文的最佳标题类问题,需要通读全文,在综观全文的基础之上才能总结归纳出来。文章各段都是围绕着“How do you feel?”这个使用不当就会成为一个愚蠢的问题的问候语而展开的。所以本文最好的标题是选择项A“一个愚蠢的问题”。