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第二篇    Of the many oddities that are culturally specific to Japan—from cat cafés to graveyard eviction notices to the infamous SuicideForest, where an estimated 100 people per year take their own lives—perhaps none is as little known, and curious, as “theevaporated people.” Since the mid-1990s, it’s estimated that at least 100,000 Japanese men and women vanish annually. They arethe architects of their own disappearances, banishing themselves over indignities large and small: divorce, debt, job loss, failing anexam. “Evaporations” have surged in Japan at key points: the aftermath of World War II, when national shame was at its apex, and inthe aftermath of the financial crises of 1989 and 2008.    A shadow economy has emerged to service those who never want to be found—who want to make their disappearances looklike abductions and their homes look like they’ve been robbed, with no paper trail or financial transactions to track them down.Nighttime Movers was one such company, started by a man named Hatori. He’d run a legitimate moving service until one night, in akaraoke bar, a woman asked if he could arrange for her to “disappear, along with her furniture”. She said she could not stand herhusband’s debts, which were ruining her life.    In many ways, Japan is a culture of loss. According to a 2014 report by the World Health Organization, Japan’s suicide rate is60 percent higher than the global average. There are between 60 and 90 suicides per day. It’s a centuries-old concept dating back tothe Samurai, who committed suicide by ritual disembowelment, and one as recent as the Japanese kamikaze pilots of World War II,who flew their aircrafts into enemy ships. Japanese culture also emphasizes uniformity, the importance of the group over theindividual. “You must hit the nail that stands out” is a Japanese maxim, and for those who can’t, or won’t, fit into society, adhere toits strict cultural norms and near-religious devotion to work, to vanish is to find freedom.
46. What is the passage mainly about?
(A) The evaporated people in Japan
(B) Oddities in Japanese culture
(C) How to track down someone who disappeared
(D) People who want to commit suicide

參考答案

答案：A
難度：適中0.666667
統計：A(8),B(2),C(2),D(0),E(0)

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