2011年12月六级听力冲刺模拟题第2套-短文理解2

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　Passage Two
       
        　　Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
       
        　　30.A) They are stable. B) They are close. C) They are strained. D) They are changing.
       
        　　31.A) They are fully occupied with their own business. B) Not many of them stay in the same place for long.
       
        　　C) Not many of them can win trust from their neighbors. D) They attach less importance to interpersonal relations.
       
        　　32.A) Count on each other for help. B) Give each other a cold shoulder.
       
        　　C) Keep a friendly distance. D) Build a fence between them.
       
        　　答案
       
        　　30. D) They are changing.
       
        　　31. B) Not many of them stay in the same place for long.
       
        　　32. C) Keep a friendly distance.
       
        　　原文
       
        　　It seems to me that neighbors are going out of style in America. The friend next-door from whom you borrowed four eggs or a ladder has moved and the people in there now are strangers. Some of the traditional stories of neighborliness are impractical or silly and maybe just as well that our relations with our neighbors are changing. The saying in the Bible “Love thy neighbor” was probably a poor translation of what must have originally been, “respect thy neighbor”. Love can’t be called up on order. Fewer than half the people in the United States live in the same house they lived in five years ago. So there is no reason to love the people who live next door to you, just because they happen to wander into a real estate office that listed the place next door to yours. The only thing neighbors have in common, to begin with, is proximity and unless something more develops that isn’t reason enough to be best friends. It sometimes happens naturally, but the chances are very small that your neighbors will be your choices friends or that you will be theirs, either. The best relationship with neighbors is one of friendly distance. You say “hello”, use small talk if you see them in the yard, you discuss problems as they arise and you help each other in an emergency. The drive way or the fence between you is not really a cold shoulder but a clear boundary. We all like clearly-defined boundaries for ourselves.
       
        　　30. What does the speaker say about the relations among neighbors nowadays?
       
        　　31. Why does speaker say it may be difficult for people to love their neighbors?
       
        　　32. What should neighbors do in the speaker’s opinion?