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On cold days people in Manhattan like to take their children to PlaySpace, an indoor playground full of wonderful climbing and s

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问题     On cold days people in Manhattan like to take their children to PlaySpace, an indoor playground full of wonderful climbing and sliding contraptions. There’s just one irritating detail: when you pay your money, the cashier pulls out a felt-trip marker and an adhesive label tag and asks you your name.
    "Frum, I say. "No, your first name." "What do you need my first name for?" To write on the tag, so all the children and the staff will know what to call you. "In that case, write ’ Mr. Frum.’"
    At which I am shot a look as if I had asked to be called to Duke of Plaza Toro.
    In encouraging five-year-olds to address grownups by their first names, PlaySpace is only slightly ahead of the times. As a journalist, I faithfully report that the custom of addressing strangers formally is as dead as the practice of leaving a visiting card. There’s hardly a secretary left who does not reply, when I give a message fro her boss, "I’ll tell him you called, David." Or a public relations agent, whether in Bangor or Bangkok, who does not begin his telephonic spiel (长篇大论) with a cheerful "Hello, David !"
    You don’t have to be a journalist to collect amazing first-name stories. Place a collect call, and the operator first-names you. The teenager behind the counter at a fast food restaurant asks a 70-year-old customer for his first name before taking his order.
    Habitual first-names claim they are motivated by nothing worse than uncontrollably high-spirited friendliness. I don’t believe it. If I asked the fast-food order-takers to lend me ＄ 50, their friendliness would vanish in a whoosh. The PR man drops all his cheerfulness the moment he hears I won’t go along with his story idea. No, it’s not friendliness that drives first-namers; it’s aggression. The PR agents who call me David uninvited would never, if they could somehow get him on the phone, address press baron Rupert Murdoch that way. The woman at the bank who called me David would never first-name the bank’s chairman. Like the mock-cheery staff at PlaySpace, they are engaged in a smile-faced act of belittlement, an assertion of power disguised as good cheer.
Which of the following statement is true according to the passage?
选项 A、The author is encouraging five-year-olds to address grownups by their first names, usually very formal and faithful.
B、First-namers claim they are motivated by nothing worse than uncontrollably high-spirited friendliness.
C、The author thought the secretary often dare not call their boss the first name.
D、He finds the secretary is often unwilling to pass a message.
答案C
解析 在第四段第一句“In encouraging five year-olds to address grownups by their first names，PlaySpace is only slightly ahead of the times．”作者认为教五岁的小孩直呼成年人的姓氏，PlaySpace 未免做得太早了一点，从这句话也看出作者不赞成的语气，因此A The author is encouraging five-year-olds to address grownups by their first names，usually very formal and faithful．作者鼓励孩子去直呼成年人这种说法是错误的。在第六段第一句和第二句，作者提到“Habitual first-names claim they are motivated by nothing worse than uncontrollably high spirited friendliness．I don’t believe it”说明作者并不认同习惯性地直呼。
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