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阅读理解    Most people will answer a ringing phone. Usually you don't know who is phoning or how urgent their business is, so a ringing phone is difficult to ignore. In one experiment, a researcher wrote down the numbers of several public phones in stations and airports. Then he called the numbers. Someone nearly always answered. When he asked why, people usually said, “Because it rang.”A few years ago in New Jersey, a man with a rifle killed 13 people. Armed police surrounded his house but he refused to come out. A reporter found out the phone number of the house and called. The man put down his rifle and answered the phone. “What do you want?” he said, “I'm really busy right now.”    Imagine you're at work and the phone is ringing in someone else's office. Do you answer it or not? In one survey on telephone use, 51% of participants told researches that they did. We can't ignore the phone and for the reason, it forces its way into our lives. It interrupts what we are doing and on top of that, the caller is often someone we don't really want to talk to. However, in the survey, 58% said they never took the phone off the hook, and 67% didn't mind if someone called during a television programme. For 44% it wasn't a problem if someone rang during a meal, while only 28% were annoyed or upset. If someone phoned in the middle of the night, 40% told researchers that they got nervous or frightened, while around 30% got angry.    Of course, when someone is really annoying, you can choose to hang up on him/her. This is in fact one of the rudest things you can do on the phone, but 79% said they were prepared to do it in some cases. Only 6% told researchers they never hung up on people. （1） In the experiment, people answered the researcher's phone ________. A . in order to help him gather the data B . to test the function of the phone C . for fear that it was urgent D . to show their interest in the survey （2） The gunman answered the phone because ________. A . he decided not to give up his resistance to the police B . he tended to answer a ringing phone C . he wanted to tell the reporter that he was too busy to offer any information D . he intended to be friendly with the media （3） What is implied by the sentence “79% said they were prepared to do it in some cases”? A . They were prepared to punish those rude callers. B . They also agreed to hang up on others regardless of rudeness. C . They were annoying rude callers. D . They were going to hang on annoying phones. （4） The purpose of the survey is to find out _______. A . how the phone interrupts people's work B . what role the phone plays in people's lives C . when the phone communication is more welcome D . why people mind a ringing phone sometimes 答案： C B B D

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