单选题 One silly question I simply cannot bear 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 example, 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 It can be inferred from the passage that "How do you feel?'" is used as ______.
A. a greeting B. a question
C. not a correct sentence D. often asked among men

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】推断题。从全文可以看出，这句话是作为一句问候语而经常被人们使用的。错误选项说明：B)很显然这句话不是一个问题；C)这句话显然是一个正确的句子；D)文中没有提到。

单选题 The writer cannot bear he question "How do you feel" because ______.
A. it is not a standard English sentence
B. it is often asked in an improper time or place
C. it is not right to say it to a friend
D. it makes people angry

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】推断题。从第二段可以看出，作者不能忍受听到这句话是因为人们总是不选择适当的时间和地点来问这句话。错误选项说明：A)这句话是标准的英语句子；C)当然是一句可以跟朋友说的话；D)文中没有提到。

单选题 What does "it" mean in the sentence "It makes him worrying a little"?
A. The bug in his ear. B. The question "How do you feel?
C. Something in a mirror. D. A problem.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】语义题。从第一段可以看出，“it”指的是“how do you feel”这句话。错误选项说明：A)文中的“put a bug in one’s ear”是固定用法；C)mirror在这里也是引用的比喻意义；D)文中没有提到。

单选题 What does Shaw' s words imply?
A. The man could not live to be eighty.
B. He was feeling all right.
C. The man was familiar with him.
D. He wanted the man to shut his mouth.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】推断题。从最后一段可以看到，Shaw的目的在于使那人闭嘴。错误选项说明：A)和B)文中用的是比喻意义；C)文中没有提到。

单选题 Which of the following statement is TRUE?
A. We should ask "How do you feel" when a man is busy working.
B. We make others at ease when we ask them "How do you feel"?
C. We should not always ask such silly questions.
D. We had better ask the question when someone is ill in hospital.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】是非题。要找到正确的选项，从第二段可以看出，当有人住院的时候我们问这句话是完全正常的。A)当别人很忙的时候并不是我们问这句话的恰当的时候；B)在不恰当的时候问这句话会让人觉得有些焦虑；C)这种话并不是不能说，而是要注意说话的场合及时间。