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【答案】B。解析:考查交際用語。Can I have a look at it? 是表示一種請(qǐng)求,對(duì)應(yīng)的肯定回答應(yīng)該是Yes, go ahead,翻譯為“是的,請(qǐng)便”。
2.閱讀理解A篇
It’s a rough world out there. Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat. Light up the stove and you could burn down the house. Luckily, if the doormat or stove failed to warn of coming disaster, a successful lawsuit might compensate you for your troubles. Or so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers’ misfortunes.
Feeling threatened, companies responded by writing ever-longer warning labels, trying to anticipate every possible accident, Today, stepladders carry labels several inches long that warn, among other things, that you might—surprise! —fall off. The label on a child’s Batman cape cautions that the toy “does not enable user to fly”.
While warnings are often appropriate and necessary—the dangers of drug interactions, for example—and many are required by state or federal regulations, it isn’t clear that they actually protect the manufacturers and sellers from liability if a customer is injured. About 50 percent of the companies lose when injured customers take them to court.
Now the tide appears to be turning. As personal injury claims continue as before, some courts are beginning to side with defendants, especially in cases where a warning label probably wouldn’t have changed anything. In May, Julie Nimmons, president of Schutt Sports in Illinois, successfully fought a lawsuit involving a football player who was paralyzed in a game while wearing a Schutt helmet, “We’re really sorry he has become paralyzed, but helmets aren’t designed to prevent those kinds of injuries”, says Nimmons. The jury agreed that the nature of the game, not the helmet, was the reason for the athlete’s injury. At the same time, the American Law Institute—a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight—issued new guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones. “Important information can get buried in a sea of trivialities,” says a law professor at Cornell Law School who helped draft the new guidelines. If the moderate end of the legal community has its way, the information on products might actually be provided for the benefit of customers and not as protection against legal liability.
34. The author's attitude towards the issue seems to be_____.
A. biased B. indifferent C. puzzling D. objective
【答案】D。解析:這里所說的“問題”指索賠案中孰是孰非這一問題。文章探討了索賠案所涉及的顧客(原告)、公司(被告)和陪審團(tuán)三方的反應(yīng),重點(diǎn)指出陪審團(tuán)態(tài)度的轉(zhuǎn)變。文章敘述客觀,作者沒有表達(dá)個(gè)人觀點(diǎn)。因此選D,意思是:客觀的。
35. What does the first sentence in this passage mean?
A. The world is full of various dangers
B. The outside of the world is not smooth
C. The surface of the earth is very uneven
D. The world is full of violent noisy people
【答案】A。解析:第一段指出,如果你走出去,可能會(huì)滑倒在門墊上,摔傷一條腿;如果點(diǎn)燃爐灶,可能燒毀整棟房屋。因此選擇A,意思是:世界充滿了各種危險(xiǎn)。
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