Question

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

　　Like most people, I’ve long understood that I’ll be judged by my occupation, that my profession is used by people to see how talented I am. Recently, however, I was disappointed to see that it also decides how I’m treated as a person.

　　Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tables. As someone paid to serve food to people, I had customers say and do things to me I suppose they’d never say or do to the people they know. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then called me back with his finger a minute later, saying angrily that he was ready to order and asking where I’d been.

　　I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a peon（勤雜工） by plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I deserved inferior（低等的）treatment from professional adults. Besides, people responded to me differently after I told them I was in college. Customers would joke that one day I’d be sitting at their table, waiting to be served.

　　Once I graduated I took a job at a community newspaper. From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world worked--- politely and formally.

　　I soon found out differently. I sat several feet away from a person in advertising department with a similar name. Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie. The mistake was immediately clear. Perhaps it was because of money, but people used a tone with Kristen that they never used with me.

　　It’s no secret that there’s a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips. The service industry exists to meet others’ needs. Still, it seemed that many of my customers didn’t get the difference between server and servant.

　　I’m now applying to graduate school, which means someday I’ll return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want. I think I’ll take them to dinner first, and see how they treat someone whose job is to serve them.

　　68. What makes the author disappointed?

　　A. Professionals tend to look down upon workers.

　　B. Talented people have to do the job waiting tables.

　　C. One’s position is used to measure one’s intelligence.

　　D. Occupation affects the way one is treated as a person.

　　69. What does the author intend to say by the example in Paragraph 2?

　　A. Waiting tables is a hard job.

　　B. Some customers are difficult to deal with.

　　C. The man making a phone call is absent-minded.

　　D. Some customers show no respect to those who serve them.

　　70. How did the author feel when waiting tables at the age of 19?

　　A. She felt it unfair to be treated as a servant.

　　B. She found it natural for professionals to treat her as inferior.

　　C. She was embarrassed each time her customers joked with her.

　　D. She felt badly hurt when her customers regarded her as a peon.

　　71. The author says one day she’ll take her customers to dinner in order to _______.

　　A. see what kind of person they are

　　B. experience the feeling of being served

　　C. share her working experience with her customers

　　D. help them realize the difference between server and servant

Answer 1

68.D；69. D；70.B；71. A

解析:

68. 選D。原文首段第2句Recently, however, I was disappointed to see that it also decides　　　　how I’m treated as a person.可知。從句中的主語it指代前一句中的my occupation(職業(yè))，由此可以看出，讓作者感到失望的是“我的工作也能決定我身而為人是如何被對待的”，選項D“人的工作可以影響到他作為一個人被對待的方式”與原文是同義轉(zhuǎn)述，因此D為答案。

　　69. 選D。第2段所舉事例是說，作者在當(dāng)飯店招待員時碰到了一位蠻橫無禮的顧客，對她隨意地呼來喚去。由此可見，作者想表達(dá)的意思是：很多顧客不尊重為他們提供服務(wù)的人，所以D正確。

　　70. 選B。原文第3段第2句But at 19 years old, I believed I deserved inferior treatment from　　　　professional adults可知作者19歲時在飯店當(dāng)招待員，不被顧客尊重，她對此的看法是“deserved inferior treatment”，即“比別人低人一等是理所應(yīng)當(dāng)?shù)摹�，換句話說，作者認(rèn)為　　　　這是十分自然的，即選項B所述的“natural”。正確答案為B。

　　71. 選A。由原文末段最后一句I’ll take them to dinner first, and see how they treat someone　　　　whose only job is to serve them可知對于有求于她的人，作者會先帶他去吃飯，看看他是如何對待那些為他們提供服務(wù)的人。結(jié)合前文作者的經(jīng)歷和感受，可以看出，作者是想通過觀察他對服務(wù)生的態(tài)度和舉止來了解這個人的品性，故選項A為答案。