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In a moment of personal crisis, how much help can you expect from a New York taxi driver? I began studying this question and fou
In a moment of personal crisis, how much help can you expect from a New York taxi driver? I began studying this question and fou
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2016-04-30
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In a moment of personal crisis, how much help can you expect from a New York taxi driver? I began studying this question and found the answers interesting.
One morning I got into three different taxis and announced, "Well, it’s my first day back in New York in seven years. I’ve been in prison." Not a single driver replied, so I tried again. "Yeah, I shot a man in Reno." I explained, hoping the driver would ask me why, but nobody asked. The only response came from a Ghanaian driver, "Reno? That is in Nevada?"
Taxi drivers were uniformly sympathetic when I said I’d just been fired. "This is America," a Haitian driver said. "One door is closed. Another is open." He argued against my plan to burn down my boss’s house. A Pakistani driver even turned down a chance to profit from my loss of hope; he refused to take me to the middle of the George Washington Bridge—a $20 trip. "Why you want to go there? Go home and relax. Don’t worry. Take a new job."
One very hot weekday in July, while wearing a red ski mask and holding a stuffed pillowcase with the word "BANK" on it, I tried calling a taxi five times outside different banks. The driver picked me up every time. My ride with a Haitian driver was typical of the superb assistance I received.
"Let’s go across the park." I said. "I just robbed the bank there. I got $25,000."
"$25,000?" he asked.
"Yeah, you think it was wrong to take it?"
"No, man. I work 8 hours and I don’t make almost $70. If I can do that, I do it too."
As we approached 86th and Lexington, I pointed to the Chemical Bank.
"Hey, there’s another bank," I said, "Could you wait here a minute while I go inside?"
"No, I can’t wait Pay me now." His reluctance may have had something to do with money—taxi drivers think the rate for waiting time is too low—but I think he wanted me to learn that even a bank robber can’t expect unconditional support.
The passage mainly discusses _____.
选项
A、how to please taxi riders
B、how to deal with taxi riders
C、the attitudes of taxi drivers towards riders in personal trouble
D、the attitudes of taxi drivers towards troublesome taxi riders
答案
C
解析
主旨大意题。文章开篇第1句话就是整篇文章的主题句,接下来的各段内容都是围绕此主题展开的,C与之意思相符,故选C。本题最具干扰性的是D,事实上,该选项中的troublesome意为“烦人的”,而不是“陷入麻烦的”,因此不能用该词形容文中的乘客,故排除D。
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