结构推理
Directions: Read the following passage(s) carefully and give brief answers to the questions.
Passage One.
It was my first day. I had come the night before, a gray-black and cold night before --- as it was to be in the middle of January, though I didn't know that at the time --- and I could not see anything clearly on the way in from the airport, even though there were lights everywhere. As we drove along, someone would point out to me a famous building, an important street, a park, a bridge, that when built was thought to be a grand sight.
In a fantasy I used to have, all these places were points of happiness to me; all these places were lifeboats to my small dying soul, for I would imagine myself entering and leaving them, and just that ¾ entering and leaving over and over again --- would see me through a bad feeling I did not have a name for. I only knew it felt a little like sadness but heavier than that. Now that I saw these places, they looked ordinary, dirty, worn down by so many people entering and leaving them in real life, and it occurred to me that I could not be the only person in the world for whom they were a fixture (设备) of fantasy. It was not my first time for the disappointment of reality and it would not be my last. The clothes that I wore were all new, bought for my journey, and as I sat in the car, twisting this way and that to get a good view of the sights before me, I was reminded of how uncomfortable the new can make you feel.
I got in a lift, something I had never done before, and then I was in an apartment and seated at a table eating food just taken from a refrigerator. In the place I had just come from, I always lived in a house, and my house did not have a refrigerator in it. Everything I was experiencing was such a good idea that I could imagine I would grow used to it and like it very much, but at first it was all so new that I had to smile with my mouth turned down at the corners. I slept soundly that night, but it wasn't because I was happy and comfortable --- quite the opposite; it was because I didn't want to take in anything else. (395 words)
1. How did the narrator(叙述人)"I" come to the city he was visiting now?
2. What kind of visitor was the narrator?
3. What kind of man was the narrator? Romantic or practical?
4. What did he see in new things?
5. How did he feel about his life?
【正确答案】He came by plane.
He was a poor visitor.
He was a sort of romantic man.
He saw sadness and uncomfortableness in them.
He felt disappointed with it.