单选题   Some young soldiers who had recently joined the army were being trained in modern ways of fighting, and one of the things they were shown was how an unarmed man could trick an armed enemy and take his weapon away from him. First one of their two instructors took a knife away from the other, using only his bare hands; and then he took a rifle away from him in the same way.
    After the lesson, and before they went on to train the young soldiers to do these things themselves, the two instructors asked them a number of questions to see how well they had understood what they had been shown. One of the questions was this: 'Well, you now know what an unarmed man can do against a man with a rifle, imagine that you are guarding a bridge at night, and that you have a rifle. Suddenly you see an unarmed enemy soldier coming towards you. What will you do? '
    The young soldier who had to answer this question thought carefully for a few seconds before he answered, and then said, 'Well, after what I have just seen, I think that the first thing I would do would be to get rid of my rifle as quickly as I could, so that the unarmed enemy couldn't take it from me and kill me with it!'
单选题     The instructors were teaching the soldiers ______.
 
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】这是一个幽默的小段子,讽刺教条的教与学。第一段,教员给年轻士兵展示如何在没有武器的情况下徒手夺取敌人手中的武器。
单选题     The soldiers practiced ______
 
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】第一段和第二段,从这两段得知,年轻的战士受训徒手夺取敌人武器包括两个步骤:教练展示和实践。第二段第一句说的是听课之后,但是在实践之前。所以,教练提问应是在整个训练之间。
单选题     The young soldier told the instructor that ______
 
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】最后一段,年轻的战士看到教练展示如何轻而易举地徒手从敌人手中将武器夺下。所以,他认为如果自己手中有武器的话,最好先丢掉武器,以免被敌人夺走并用其伤害自己。所以保命很重要。
单选题     The ending of the passage is ______
 
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】serious意为“严肃的”;mysterious意为“神秘的”;curious意为“好奇的”;humorous意为“幽默的”。这个结局实际上是很幽默的,也是一种讽刺:所教和所学不是一回事。