【刷好题】专题04：阅读C篇 -2022年上海名校高三下试卷分项汇编集萃 （含答案详解）

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2022 年上海名校高三下试卷分项汇编集萃
Reading Comprehension 阅读理解 C篇
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1.上海师范大学附属外国语中学高三第二学期四月线上诊断
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Depending on whom you believe, the average American will, over a lifetime, wait in lines for
two years (says national public radio) or five years (according to some customer-loyalty experts).
The crucial word is average, as wealthy Americans routinely avoid lines altogether. Once the
most democratic of institutions, lines are rapidly becoming the exclusive province of suckers
(people who still believe in and practice waiting in lines). Poor suckers, mostly.
Airports resemble France before the Revolution: first-class passengers enjoy "elite" security
lines and priority boarding, and disembark before the unwashed in coach, held at bay by a flight
attendant, are allowed to foul the Jet-way.
At amusement parks, too, you can now buy your way out of line. This summer I haplessly
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watched kids use a $52 Gold Flash Pass to jump the lines at Six Flags New England, and similar
systems are in use in most major American theme parks, from Universal Orlando to Walt Disney
World, where the haves get to watch the have-mores breeze past on their way to their seats.
Flash Pass teaches children a valuable lesson in real-world economics; that the rich are more
important than you, especially when it comes to waiting. An NBA player once said to me, with a
bemused chuckle of disbelief, that when playing in Canada—get this—"We have to wait in the
same customs line as everybody else. "
Almost every line can be breached for a price. In several U. S. cities this summer, early
arrivers among the early adopters waiting to buy iPhones offered to sell their spots in the lines. On
Craigslist, prospective iPhone purchasers offered to pay "waiters" or "placeholders" to wait in line
for them outside Apple stores.
Inevitably, some semi-populist politicians have seen the value of sort-of waiting in lines with
the ordinary people. Billionaire New York mayor Michael Bloomberg often waits for the subway
with his fellow citizens, though he's first driven by motorcade past the stop nearest his house to a
station 22 blocks away, where the wait, or at least the ride, is shorter.
Nothing annoys a national lawmaker more than a person who will not wait in line, unless that
line is in front of an elevator at the U. S. Capitol, where Senators and Representatives use private
elevators, lest they have to queue with their constituents.
But compromising the integrity of the line is not just antidemocratic, it's out-of-date. There
was something about the orderly boarding of Noah's Ark, two by two, that seemed to restore not
just civilization but civility during the Great Flood.
How civil was your last flight? Southwest Airlines has first-come, first-served festival
seating. But for $ 5 per flight, an unaffiliated company called Board First. com will secure you a
coveted "A" boarding pass when that airline opens for online check-in 24 hours before departure.
Thus, the savvy traveler doesn't even wait in line when he or she is online.
Some cultures are not renowned for lining up. Then again, some cultures are too adept at
lining up: a citizen of the former Soviet Union would join a queue just so he could get to the head
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