Passage 2
Nowadays, a cellphone service is available to everyone, everywhere. Probably thousands of people have already been using it, but I just discovered it, so I'm going to claim it and also name it: Fake Foning. The technology has been working well for me at the office, but there are infinite applications. Virtually in any public space.
Say you work at a big university with lots of talky faculty members buzzing about. Now, say you need to use the restroom. The trip down the hall will take approximately one hour, because a person can't walk into those talky people without getting pulled aside for a question, a bit of gossip, a new read on a certain line of Paradise Lost.
So, a cellphone. Any cellphone. Just pick it up. Don't dial. Just hold that phone to your face and start talking. Walk confidently down the hall engaged in fake conversation, making sure to tailor both the topic and content to the person standing before you whom you are trying to evade.
For standard colleague avoidance, I suggest fake chatting about fake business：
“Yes, I'm glad you called, because we really need to hammer out the details. What's that? Yes, I read Page 12, but if you look at the bottom of 4,I think you can see the problem begins right there.”
Be animated. Be engaged in your fake fone conversation. Make eye contact with the people passin9,nod to them, gesture keen interest in talking to them at a later time, point to your phone, shrug and move on.
Shoppers should consider fake foning anytime they spot a talky neighbor in the produce department pinching unripe peaches. Without your phone at your face, you'd be in for a 20—minute speech on how terrible the world is.
One important caution about fake fonin9.The other day l was fake foning my way past a colleague, and he was actually following me to get my attention. I knew he wanted to ask about a project I had not yet finished.1 was trying to buy myself some time, so I continued fake foning with my doctor.” So I don't need the operation? Oh, doctor, that is the best news.”
And then: Brrrrrrng! Brrrrrmg! Brrrrrmg! My phone started ringing, right there while it was planted on my face. My colleague looked at me, and I at him, and naturally I gasped. “What is the matter with this thing?” I said, pulling the phone away to look at it, and then putting it back to nay ear.
“Hello? Are you still there?”
Oops.
What is fake foning?
根据文章第三段和第四段，作者以去洗手间为例，说明如何利用fake foning避免路上被同事拉住谈 话。此外，第四段明确提及“For standard colleague avoidance, I suggest fake chatting about fake business”。由 此推断，fake foning是避免同事的策略，故A项为正确答案。
In the author's opinion, in order to make fake foning look real one has to ________.
文章第七段指出假装打电话的要点：be animated, be engaged in your fake fone conversation。D选项 appear absorbed in conversation是对be engaged in your fake fone conversation的解释，故D项为正确答案。
What does the last example show?
根据the last example定位到文章结尾处，由文章倒数第三段可知，the last example指的是作者正假装忙 于打电话时，电话却忽然响了。而作者在讲述这个例子之前有这样一句话“One important caution about fake foning”，即告诉读者当你假装打电话时，必须谨慎小心，故B项为正确答案。
After his phone suddenly began ringing, the author ________.
根据文章最后三段内容，作者正假装忙于打电话，电话却忽然响了的时候，他是这样做的：他自然地 屏住了呼吸，自言自语“这件事怎么了？”一边说着，一边把手机拿开，看了看，然后又把它放回了耳朵 里。“喂?你还在那里吗?”由此可判断她依旧在假装打电话，故D项为正确答案。
What is the tone of the passage?
该题询问本文基调。humorous幽默的。critical批评的；挑剔的。serious严肃的。unclear不清楚的。由 全文描述来看，字里行间透露出幽默诙谐。故B项为正确答案。