单选题Directions: After reading the following passage, you will
find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 41 through 45.For each
question or statement there are 4 choices marked A) , B) , C) and D) . You
should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer
Sheet with a single line through the center.
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______.