Unit 4 Making the news课时作业

Learning about language

　　Ⅰ 阅读理解

　　A

课标话题 人与自我·公民义务与社会责任 体裁 应用文 词 数 278 难度 　　When a Canadian woman was hit by a train and badly injured in northern Italy, rescue services quickly went to her aid on the tracks. But as they treated the victim, a young man photographed the scene from the station platform in a selfie(自拍) that has caused widespread anger. Corriere della Sera said he appeared to be making a "V for victory" sign with one hand while taking the shot with the other.

　　Police caught the young selfie­taker and forced him to delete his picture. The young man has been investigated(调查) and does not appear to have committed a crime. But the image of him pointing his mobile phone at the rescue scene has appeared on many front pages in Italy and it attracted incredulity to the investigation so that the public insisted that further investigations should be carried out.

　　Journalist Giorgio Lambri, who pictured this young selfie­taker, complained "we have completely lost a sense of morality". Besides, a commentary in La Stampa spoke of "a cancer that affects the Internet". The young man who took the selfie was not bad, argued Antonella Boralevi. Instead, he had turned off his soul and his personality and become an "automaton(机械行事之人) of the Internet"．

　　What remains unclear is how the young woman was hit by a train in the first place. According to reports at the time, the control system for closing the train's doors was faulty and the woman may have fallen out of the train while opening a door on the wrong side. However, there was also a suggestion that she may have been rushing to board the train as it was leaving the station.

　　语篇导读　本文主要讲述了一名男子在救援现场自拍引发了公众的不满和批评。

　　1．What does the underlined word "incredulity" probably mean?

　　A．Suspicion． B．Resistance.

　　C．Attention． D．Sensitivity.

解析　A　词义猜测题。根据画线词上一句可知，男子被调查后发现并没有犯过罪，再结合画线词后的the public...carried out可知，公众要求对其进行进一步调查，故可推知，公众应该是怀疑警方之前的调查结果，故选A项。