Question

My old digital camera broke down, so I wanted to buy a new one. Being the cautious type, I fancied a reliable brand. So I went on the Net, spent 15 minutes reading product reviews on good websites, wrote down the names of three top recommendations and headed for my nearest big friendly camera store. There in the cupboard was one of the cameras on my list. And it was on special offer. Oh joy. I pointed at it and asked an assistant, "Can I have one of those? " He looked perturbed(不安). "Do you want to try it first?" he said. It didn’t quite sound like a question. "Do I need to?" I replied, "There’s nothing wrong with it." This made him look a bit offended and I started to feel bad. "No, no. But you should try it," he said encouragingly, "compare it with the others.

I looked across at the others: shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly different prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box. With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to take Z and possibly H into account at the same time. But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with: first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model.

But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these traps by making the right choice, the clever choice, the wise choice. In the end, I agreed to try the model I had chosen. The assistant seemed a sincere man. So I let him take out my chosen camera from the cupboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow shoppers... and when he started to introduce the special features, I interrupted to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well. Why do we think that new options still offer us anything new? Perhaps it is because they offer an opportunity to avoid facing the fact that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imagine.

1.The shop assistant insisted that the writer should ____.

A. trust him and stop asking questions

B. try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it

C. get more information about different companies

D. compare the camera he had chosen with the others

2.What does the writer mean by "it would be worth half what I paid for it"(Paragraph 2)?

A. He should get a 50% discount.

B. The price of the camera would soon fall.

C. The quality of the camera was not good.

D. The price of the camera was unreasonably high.

3.The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he _______.

A. knew very little about it

B. wanted to make sure the one he chose would be the best

C. didn't trust the shop assistant

D. had a special interest in taking pictures of his fellow shoppers

4.It can be inferred from the passage that in the writer’s opinion, _______.

A. we waste too much money on cameras

B. cameras have become an important part of our daily life

C. we don’t actually need so many choices when buying a product

D. famous companies care more about profit than quality

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.B

3.B

4.C

【解析】

試題分析：作者的相機(jī)壞掉了，于是他決定買(mǎi)一個(gè)新的。作者上網(wǎng)花了十五分鐘時(shí)間看網(wǎng)上的評(píng)論，并把推薦最率最高的三部相機(jī)記了下來(lái)。營(yíng)業(yè)員執(zhí)意讓作者比較一下其它的相機(jī)，但是作者認(rèn)為沒(méi)有挑選的必要。

1."No, no. But you should try it," he said encouragingly, "compare it with the others.”可知，營(yíng)業(yè)員堅(jiān)持讓作者把他選的那款相機(jī)與其它的進(jìn)行比較，故選D。

2.soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop,”可知，作者把相機(jī)帶出商店之后，那個(gè)商品會(huì)貶值一半，即商品從售出的那一刻起，其價(jià)值就會(huì)貶低一半，故選B。

3.you can beat these traps by making the right choice, the clever choice, the wise choice”可知，作者想確認(rèn)自己做出了正確的選擇，因此，他才決定試一下他選的那一款相機(jī)，故選B。

4.I interrupted to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well.”可知，作者不想聽(tīng)營(yíng)業(yè)員向他講解那款相機(jī)的功能，而是打斷了營(yíng)業(yè)員，作者問(wèn)營(yíng)業(yè)員他是否需要買(mǎi)相機(jī)套和內(nèi)存卡；根據(jù)“Why do we think that new options still offer us anything new?”可知，作者不認(rèn)為新的選擇會(huì)有什么新意，即可供挑選的商品雖然有很多，但它們并不會(huì)包含更多的配件或服務(wù)，說(shuō)明購(gòu)物時(shí)不需要太多的選擇，故選C。

考點(diǎn)：生活類(lèi)短文閱讀