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  3. I’m seventeen. I had worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Leangles. People came to the counter and you put things in their ba

I’m seventeen. I had worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Leangles. People came to the counter and you put things in their ba

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问题     I’m seventeen. I had worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Leangles. People came to the counter and you put things in their bags for them and carried things to their cars. It was hard work.
    While working, you wear a plate with your name on it. I once met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said, "Mr. Castle, how are you?" We talked about this and that. As he left, he said, "It was nice talking to you, Brett." I felt great, he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh no. He didn’t remember me at all, he just read the name plate. I wish I had put "Irving" down on my name plate. If he’d have said, "Oh yes, Irving, how could I forget you?" I’d have been ready for him. There’s nothing personal here.
    The manager and everyone else who were a step above the box boys often shouted orders. One of these was: you couldn’t accept tips (小费). Okay, I’m outside and put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction (反应) is to take a quarter and give it to me. I’d say, "I’m sorry, I can’t." They’d get angry. When you give someone a tip, you’re sort of being polite. You take a quarter and put it in their hand and you expect them to say, "Oh, thanks a lot." When you say, "I’m sorry, I can’t," they feel a little put down. They say, "No one will know." And they put it in your pocket. You say, "I really can’t." It gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person physically (身体上的) to prevent him from tipping you. It was not in agreement with the store’s belief in being friendly. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just couldn’t understand the strangeness of some people’s ideas. One lady actually put it in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I would have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something.
    I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and fed. I guess I had the means and could afford to hate it and give it up.
From the second paragraph, we can infer that ______.
选项 A、the writer didn’t like the impersonal part of his job
B、with a name plate, people can easily start talking
C、Mr. Castle mistook Irving for Brett
D、Irving was the writer’s real name
答案A
解析 为一道推断题。第二段中作者回忆与顾客Mr．Castle交谈一事。起初他以为Mr．Castle还记得他。后来发现并非如此。Mr．Castle只不过是看到他佩戴的身份牌才知道他的名字的。因此他觉得There’s nothing personal here．这里没有什么人情味。因此选the writer didn’t like the impersonal part of his job。至于选项C和D只是作者假设的情形：I wish I had put“Irving”down on my name plate．If he’d have said，“Oh yes，Irving，how could I forget you?”I’d have been ready for him．句中wish后使用的动词形式均为虚拟语气，意思是说，但愿我写在身份牌上的名字是Irving。如果他说：“喔，是啊，Irving，我怎么会忘记你呢?”我可就会要他的好看了。而这种情形实际上并未发生，因此选项c和D可一并排除。这类命题要求根据原文表面文字信息一步推出答案，即对原文中的某一句话或几句话做出同义的改写或综合，并不涉及复杂的推理或判断。解题应以文字信息为依据，不能做出在原文中找不到文字根据的推断。
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