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Manners nowadays in metropolitan cities like London are practically non-existent. It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to e

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问题     Manners nowadays in metropolitan cities like London are practically non-existent. It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her, as he ought. In fact, it is saddening to note that if a man does offer his seat to an older woman, it is nearly always a Continental man or one from the older generation.
    This question of giving up seats in public transport is much argued about by young men, who say that, since women have claimed equality, they no longer deserve to be treated with courtesy, and that those who go out to work should take their turn in the rat race like anyone else. Women have never claimed to be physically as strong as men. Even if it is not agreed, however, that young men should stand up for younger women, the fact remains that courtesy should be shown to the old, the sick and the burdened.
    Conditions in travel are really very hard on everyone, we know, but hardship is surely no excuse. Sometimes one wonders what would have been the behavior of these stout young men in a packed refugee train or a train on its way to a prisoner-camp during the war. Would they have considered it only right and their proper due to keep the best places for themselves then?
    Older people, tired and irritable from a day’s work, are not angels, either — far from it. Many a brisk argument or an insulting quarrel breaks out as the weary queues push and shove each other to get on buses and tubes. One cannot commend this, of course, but one does feel there is just a little more excuse.
    If cities are to remain pleasant places to live in at all, however, it seems urgent, not only that communications in transport should be improved, but also that communication between human beings should be kept smooth and polite. All over cities, it seems that people are too tired and rushed to be polite. Shop assistants won’t bother to assist, taxi drivers shout at each other as they dash dangerously round corners, bus conductors pull the bell before their desperate passengers have had time to get on or off the bus, and so on and so on. It seems to us that it is up to the young and strong to do their small part to stop such deterioration.
Shop assistants, taxi drivers and bus conductors are mentioned in the last paragraph so as to______.
选项 A、reveal the chaos of cities
B、show the importance of improving communications in transport
C、illustrate their tiredness and busy state
D、manifest the necessity of improving communications between human beings
答案D
解析 根据题干信号词shop assistant，taxi drivers and bus conductors可回文定位到尾段第三句Shop assistants won’t bother to assist，taxi drivers shout at each other as they dash dangerously round comers，bus conductors pull the bell before their desperate passengers have had time to get on or off the bus，and so on and so on．(商店店员懒得理你，出租车驾驶员在危险地快速转弯时互相叫嚷，公交车售票员在绝望的乘客还没有来得及上下车，就拉响铃声)。但鉴于例证题的思路是在例子的上下文(尤其上文)找寻证明对象，即答案线索，故考生应锁定本段的第一二句，尤其第一句后半部分信息(but后是语义重点)：If cities are to remain pleasant places to live in at all…it seems urgent not only that…but also that communication between human beings should be kept smooth and polite(如果城市要继续成为宜居之地，那么我们似乎急需要做的就不仅仅是提高公共交通工具上人与人之间的沟通，而且还要保持人际间沟通的顺畅与礼貌)，此处为本题目的“题眼”。
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