問題詳情

VI. Reading ComprehensionWatching television, you’d think we live at bay, in totaljeopardy, surrounded on all sides by human-seeking germs,shielded against infection and death by a chemicaltechnology that enables us to keep killing them off. We areinstructed to spray disinfectants everywhere, into the air ofour bedrooms and kitchens and with special energy into ourbathrooms, since it is our very own germs that seem theworst kind. We explode clouds of aerosol, mixed for goodluck with deodorants, into our noses, mouths, underarms,privileged crannies---even into the intimate insides of ourtelephones. We apply potent antibiotics to minor scratchesand seal them with plastic. Plastic is the new protector: wewrap the already plastic tumblers of hotels in more plastic,and seal the toilet seats like state secrets after irradiatingthem with ultraviolet light. We live in a world where themicrobes are always trying to get at us, to tear cell from cell,and we only stay alive and whole through diligence andfear.
46. What does at bay (line 1) mean?
(A) in close contact
(B) surprisingly
(C) helplessly
(D) keeping some distance away

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.40566
統計：A(26),B(5),C(24),D(43),E(0)

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