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  3. Fernando was a photographer and rarely went back to the same place twice. One day, he and I were arguing about how I never took

Fernando was a photographer and rarely went back to the same place twice. One day, he and I were arguing about how I never took

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问题     Fernando was a photographer and rarely went back to the same place twice. One day, he and I were arguing about how I never took any real vacations. I was trying to build a career, and if somebody needed me, I had to be available, so when he suggested we go off somewhere for three entire weeks, he may as well have suggested I bungee jump off the Chrysler Building. " You can make it happen," Fernando pushed. "Where do you want to go?"
    You have to pick your battles, and I knew this was a fight I was not going to win. "You decide," I said. He chose a little fishing village off the coast of Sri Lanka that he’d visited a decade ago, and he planned out an itinerary. We’d land in Bangkok and stay for two nights. Then we’d go to Cambodia to see the temples of Angkor, spend two nights in Sri Lanka’s largest city, Colombo, visit the tea plantations in Kandy, and end with a week on the beach.
    On our first day in Bangkok, we crossed the river to have breakfast at a restaurant where the water outside the window came up to our table. You know how great every once in a while you have a conversation that stays with you forever? We looked out at the water that day and talked, really talked, about how we had both come to this place in our lives where we knew we were exactly meant to be, with exactly the person we were meant to be with. Fernando hadn’t had an easy relationship with his father, and later on, he’d had a number of complicated relationships. Parts of his past clearly made him uncomfortable. On the ferry back to our hotel, he became distant and quiet. "What’s wrong?" I asked. He was worried that he’d revealed too much. The sun was out, and the sky looked like a pearl, and we sat there on the boat for a few minutes, just feeling it rock and skim across the river. " Look," I said, " wherever you have been, whatever you have done in your life, it doesn’t matter. We’re together now. "
    Our trip was full of wonder and fun, but when we got to Colombo, our charmingly shabby hotel failed to charm Fernando, so we left a day early for the beach. As we drove, we passed two orphanages. Christmas was only a few days away, and I felt that I should stop the car and try to do something for the children, but I didn’t have the courage. I guess I was afraid of being perceived as the rich American guy who shows up unannounced and invades their space. I am still haunted by my mistake.
The author uses bungee jump to show______.
选项 A、the fame of the Chrysler Building
B、the difficulty in finding a suitable job
C、the interests of being a photographer
D、the hardness of Fernando’s suggestion
答案D
解析 推断题。首段第三句提及I was trying to build a career，…so when he suggested we go off somewherefor three entire weeks，he may as well have suggested I bungee jump off the Chrysler Building．即当时作者在创业阶段，根本没空，这个建议实现的难度很大。由此可推知[D]含义与此相符，故为答案。由首段第三句可同时排除[A]和[B]；原文只在首段首句提及Fernando was a photographer，并未谈及做一名摄影师的乐趣，[C]是对原文的曲解，故排除。
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