問題詳情

Ⅵ. Reading ComprehensionA commonly held view about the Germans is that they areruthlessly rational, and this assumption is best understoodthrough the following joke. An English couple have a child.After the birth, medical tests reveal that the child is normal,apart from the fact that it is German. This, however, should notbe a problem. There is nothing to worry about. As the childgrows older, it dresses in lederhosen and has a pudding bowlhaircut, but all its basic functions develop normally. It can walk,eat, sleep and so on, but for some reason the German child neverspeaks. The concerned parents take it to the doctor, whoreassures them that as the German child is perfectly developed inall other areas, there is nothing to worry about and that he is surethe speech faculty will eventually blossom. Years pass. TheGerman child enters its teens, and still it is not speaking. TheGerman child's mother is especially distressed by this. One dayshe makes the German child, who is now 17 years old and stillsilent, a bowl of tomato soup, and takes it through to him in theparlour where he is listening to a wind-up gramophone recordplayer. Soon, the German child appears in the kitchen andsuddenly declares, "Mother, this soup is a little tepid." TheGerman child's mother is astonished. "All these years," sheexclaims, "we assumed you could not speak. And yet all along itappears you could. Why? Why did you never say anythingbefore?" "Because, mother," answers the German child, "up untilnow, everything has been satisfactory."
41. What is the best title for this passage?
(A) A Real Story about a German Child
(B) A Funny Tale about an English Couple
(C) A German Story about a Distressed Mother
(D) A Joke about Germans’ Rational Way of Thinking

參考答案

答案：D
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(0),C(1),D(0),E(0)

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