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  3. When I was in my twenties, I drove for a taxi company in Dayton, Ohio, making a small hourly wage. It was the summer of 1966.

When I was in my twenties, I drove for a taxi company in Dayton, Ohio, making a small hourly wage. It was the summer of 1966.

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问题     When I was in my twenties, I drove for a taxi company in Dayton, Ohio, making a small hourly wage. It was the summer of 1966.
    One afternoon I was sitting at a downtown taxi stand, hoping to get an airport run. Instead, I got a call from the manager, who told me to go to a newsstand and buy a racing form. Then I was to stop and pick up a six-pack of beer, some goldfish food and a box of cigars. He directed me to deliver the goods to an address in a nearby neighbourhood.
    I protested, not wanting to lay out money from my own cash supply, because I was afraid I might not be able to collect the money.
    The manager told me this man was a regular customer. He assured me that there would be no problem with payment, and said I should get moving or bring the car back in. Since he put it that way, I got moving.
    The building smelled of tobacco smoke. I knocked on the door and could hear something moving across the floor.
    Finally the door opened, and there was a disabled man sitting on a small wood platform, looking up at me.
    The man was polite and very grateful for my services. When I set the racing form down on the coffee table, I noticed an open velvet case that looked like a jewelry box. As the man rolled over and reached for some money to pay me, I glanced inside. There was a medal: a Purple Head from World War II.
    Guilt began to creep over me as he paid and gave me a generous tip. The man was a quiet sort of person, obviously not in need of companionship.
    He had long ago yielded to his condition and to the sacrifice he had made. I made that run many more times in my taxi until I moved on to another job, but I never learned his name and we never became friends despite our regular contact.
    Unfortunately for me, I would be more than twice the age I was back then before I learned that prejudging people makes you wrong about most things most of the time.
What do we know about the writer after reading this passage?
选项 A、He always obeyed his boss.
B、He liked to prejudge other people.
C、He wanted to make friends with the man.
D、He would like to show his respect to heroes.
答案D
解析 本题为主旨题。本题的问题是“读完这篇文章后，对作者有何了解?”解题关键是理解细节对作者情感的表达。选项A．He always obeyed his boss．中“总是”这个概念在文中并没有提到；选项B。He liked to prejudge other people．表达的意思在文章开头通过描述他不愿意去这点可以看出来，但并不符合这个人的实际；选项C．He wanted to make friends with the man．与文章倒数第二段最后一句的“…and we never became friends despite our regular contact”意思相反；选项D．He would like to show his respect to heroes．可以从倒数三段首旬“Guilt began to creep over me as he paid”看出作者的负罪感决定了他对英雄的敬意，这也是他为什么以后多次去帮助老人的原因。故选项D为正确答案。
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