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  3. (1) I had the pleasure and honor of serving as a Newport Beach ocean lifeguard for five seasons. Whenever I could, I got shifts

(1) I had the pleasure and honor of serving as a Newport Beach ocean lifeguard for five seasons. Whenever I could, I got shifts

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问题     (1) I had the pleasure and honor of serving as a Newport Beach ocean lifeguard for five seasons. Whenever I could, I got shifts working the Point, which was known for its massive, spontaneous rip currents (离岸流).
    (2) Late in a shift, I’m working Tower 15. Two blocks to my right is another guard named Mike, working Tower 17. He calls me over the phone, "Hey, I got a couple kids. I gotta go give ’em a warning. Keep an eye on us."
    (3) I say, "Sure," and hang up.
    (4) Anytime you get out of your tower, you’re supposed to let somebody else know, in case a situation develops. As Mike hangs up the phone and grabs his buoy, a rip is snapped up under these two kids, and they’re getting sucked out. Mike sees it before it’s happening, and he’s running at full tilt toward the ocean. I scan the water. All I see is two small noses up and down in the choppy water.
    (5) I drop my binos and I call in and say, "Double rescue 17—he’s out, I’m going." Mike is already punching through the surf line. By now, the mother of the two kids realizes what’s happening. She’s on her feet and screaming. I start sprinting toward her, but before I’m even halfway there, Mike reaches the kids. Mike told me later that he had to reach down into the water to save them.
    (6) Mike swims sideways out of the rip current into the clear water and starts bringing them in. When I reach their mother, Mike’s in waist-deep water.
    (7) I turn to their mom and say, "Hey, it’s gonna be OK. They’re safe." I see the terror start to drain out of her.
    (8) Then she glances back and gets her first good look at Mike. And a crazy thing happens. I see a new kind of panic wash over her as though there’s some new, equally dangerous threat on her kids’ lives. She rushes up to Mike and snatches her kids and turns up the beach. Not even a thank-you.
    (9) Now, Mike had a rough upbringing. You can tell just by looking at him. He has a number of really frightening tattoos, and his shaved head shows the scar he got from a broken beer bottle. Maybe he wasn’t the friendliest guard on the beach. I admit, I didn’t really get along with Mike.
    (10) But everything he lacked in public relations skills, he more than made up for in lifesaving ability. If any other guard had been working 17 that night, including me, there’d be a very real chance that that mother wasn’t going home with both her kids. Maybe she didn’t know anybody who looked quite like Mike. He wasn’t her idea of a knight in shining armor.
    (11) That doesn’t change the fact that he had just rescued her kids. It was hard to understand what had happened in her heart.
    (12) That was over ten years ago. If you asked Mike about it today, I doubt he’d even remember. But I won’t forget. I promised myself I’d never let my own fear or prejudice prevent me from recognizing a hero.
Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage?
选项 A、Jobs of A Lifeguard
B、How to Rescue Children
C、Seaside and the Point
D、Prejudice towards A Hero
答案D
解析 主旨题。文章从作者的视角出发，讲述了救生员麦克在一次救援工作中虽然救了人却还受到偏见的故事，原因是麦克的外貌令人恐惧，作者在结尾(第12段第4句) 认为英雄不应被恐惧或偏见所否认，点明了文章主旨。由此可知D项正确。A、B、C三项均不切中文章主旨。
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