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The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge retail stores—Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don't go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa.
Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money. But across society, the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe Tm just old-fashioned. But earning money isn't quick or easy for most of us. Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink: ( 眨眼 ) of an eye? Doesn't a wallet—that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that matters?
But I'll leave the economics to the experts. What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment. Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming. The opposite of a wallet is a smartphone or an iPad. The rounded edges, cool glass, smooth and unknowable as a pebble ( 鹅卵石 ) . Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right. No more counting out coins. Show your wallet, if you still have one. It may not be here much longer.
1
What is happening to the wallet?
A.It is disappearing.
B.It is being fattened.
C.It is becoming costly.
D.It is changing in style.
本题答案:
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • 参考答案:A
  • 系统解析:
    事实细节题。第一段第一句开篇便点明钱包正走向灭绝。因此 A“它正在消失”符合文意, 故为答案。
2
How are business transactions done in big modern stores?
A.Individually.
B.Electronically.
C.In the abstract.
D.Via a cash register.
本题答案:
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • 参考答案:B
  • 系统解析:
    事实细节题。第一段第六句举例说明在最前沿的商店里人们如何付款。第七句提到,店员都配有平板电脑,顾客在沙发上休息时就可以付账。由此可知,在大型现代商店里,商业交易是通过电子设备完成的,故答案为 B。
3
What makes the author feel uncomfortable nowadays?
A.Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.
B.The pleasing Friday-night feeling is fading.
C.Earning money is getting more difficult.
D.Spending money is so fast and easy.
本题答案:
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • 参考答案:D
  • 系统解析:
    事实细节题。第二段介绍作者的看法。现金概念的抽象化使作者感到不安。究其原因是作者认为挣钱不容易,而花钱却在转瞬间,故答案为 D。
4
Why does the author choose to write about what's happening to the wallet?
A.It represents a change in the modem world.
B.It has something to do with everybody's life.
C.It marks the end of a time-honoured tradition.
D.It is the concern of contemporary economists.
本题答案:
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • 参考答案:A
  • 系统解析:
    事实细节题。what's happening to the wallet 指的是钱包正走向灭绝。第三段继续介绍作者对钱包即将灭绝的看法。第二句提到,钱包的消失给我带来的困扰是关于它所代表的实体环境的改变。因此 A“它代表现代世界的一个改变”符合文意,故为答案。
5
What can we infer from the passage about the author?
A.He is resistant to social changes.
B.He is against technological progress.
C.He feels reluctant to part with the traditional wallet.
D.He feels insecure in the ever-changing modem world.
本题答案:
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • 参考答案:D
  • 系统解析:
    推理判断题。由定位句可以看出,作者对钱包走向灭绝感到不安和困惑,而钱包灭绝正是代表着社会的变化,因此 D“他在不断变化的现代世界中感到不安”符合文意,该选项中的 insecure 对应定位句中的 uneasy 和 bother,故答案为 D。
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