第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给出的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
A man, who sometimes takes my bus, is in rags. His life seems different from that of theothers. He looks exhausted and carries nothing. He appears along a downtown street, seemingly outof nowhere. We sometimes want to know where he sleeps at night.
A few weeks ago he boarded the bus. A few stops later, a young woman boarded. She swiped (刷)her bus-card, only to find the machine would not accept it. The driver told her to pay the $2.25fare. “I just bought this card,” she said. “I paid the money...”
The driver said she could take the card back to the sales office and explain the problem. Inthe meantime she would have to pay the fare for that day. The woman became confused and distressed.The rest of us just watched, wondering how the problem would be solved. Suddenly the man rose fromhis seat, dropped a few coins into the fare box.
“You’re lucky,” the bus driver said quietly. “He paid for you.” Silence fell over the bus. Therest of us had watched the woman’s discomfort, but he felt it. We lawyers, journalists and businesspeople headed downtown to&nbs
n. 沉默,寂静
vt. 使安静,使沉默