浙江省丽水市五校共同体2020-2021学年高二上学期英语10月阶段性考试试卷（含听力音频）

    If you cut in line, you might just be a bad person. The queue is a regulation where the reward (the ice-cream stand/dining room/ticket booth) is earned through patience. Your choice to avoid this time-honored process will be bound to draw the anger of those you pass by, drawing remarks like “Whoa there, Chief,” the passive-aggressive “There's a line, you know!” and of course, the incredibly common “Hey, Copernicus, why don't you guide yourself to the back of the line?”

    But, in the moment in which you really cannot wait, for example, the entire royal family has prepared a dinner party upon you last minute, then there is a way to cut the line correctly.

    There are a few different ways to consider and a few different methods to employ. The regularity of the situation is very important. If you're waiting to use the photocopier at work, you might be more likely to manage a successful cut than if you were waiting for a lifeboat on the Titanic. Sure, that might be an extreme example. But the importance of the event does matter.

    For those requests in normal situations, emphasizing either the urgency of your task or the simplicity of your task proved to be effective: experimenters who said “Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the photocopier?” had a cut rate of 60 percent and experimenters who said “May I use the photocopier because I need to make copies?” saw a success rate of 90 per cent when queuing for the copy machine.

    If you have a couple of extra dollars lying around, bribing members of the line also proved to be effective. And most of the time, the person being bribed didn't end up accepting the money, because even the offer showed that the briber had a sense of desperation.

    Graffiti is writings, drawings or marks made on walls in public places. In most cases, it is often  mixture of writing and pictures, usually  (mark) with a tag, which is unique  an artist or a group. Graffiti is now popular all over the world.

    Graffiti is believed to become popular in the United States in the 1960s. Young adults in cities like New York would use paint to spray their tag on walls., New Yorkers used to see graffiti as something  (disturb). Up to the 1970s, most people hated graffiti and painting graffiti was illegal and graffiti artists  (punish) by fines.

    Later, the image of graffiti and graffiti artists changed a lot and graffiti was no longer only found in the subways or the poor areas of cities but also in the  (gallery) of Manhattan art world. In the late 1980s the popularity of hip-hop music helped to spread the culture of graffiti, first at home in the United States and then  (international).

    Recently, graffiti  (gain) the reputation of “street art” and it has become a movement expressing the street culture of young people. You can even find graffiti in places  you least expect to see it-in advertisements, on clothes, on toys and even in newspapers.