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 Passage One
            Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.

            Like most people, I've long understood that I will be judged by my
            occupation, that my profession is a gauge people use to see how
            smart or talented I am. Recently. however, I was disappointed to see
             I'm treated as a person.

            Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter
            and took a job waiting tables. As someone paid to serve food to
            people, I had customers say and do things to me I suspect they'd
            never say or do to their most casual acquaintances. One night a man
            talking on his cell phone waved me away, then beckoned(示意) me back
            with his finger a minute later, complaining he was ready to order
            and asking where I'd been.

            I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a
            peon(勤杂工) by plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I
            deserved inferior treatment from professional adults. Besides,
            people responded to me differently after I told them I was in
            college. Customers would joke that one day I'd be sitting at their
            table, waiting to be served.

            52. The author was disappointed to find that ____.
            a) one's position is used as a gauge to measure one's intelligence
            b) talented people like her should fail to get a respectable job
            c) one's occupation affects the way one is treated as a person
            d) professionals tend to look down upon manual workers

            53. What does the author intend to say by the example in the second
            paragraph?
            a) some customers simply show no respect to those who serve them.
            b) people absorbed in a phone conversation tend to be absent-minded.
            c) Waitresses are often treated by customers as casual
acquaintances.
            d) some customers like to make loud complaints for no reason at all.

            54. How did the author feel when waiting tables at the age of 19?
            a) she felt it unfair to be treated as a mere servant by
            professionals.
            b) she felt badly hurt when her customers regarded her as a peon.
            c) she was embarrassed each time her customers joked with her.
            d) she found it natural for professionals to treat her as inferior.

            55. What does the author imply by saying "... many of my customers
            didn't get the difference between server and servant" (Lines 3-4,
            Para.7)?
            a) those who cater to others' needs are destined to be looked down
            upon.
            b) those working in the service industry shouldn't be treated as
            servants.
            c) those serving others have to put up with rough treatment to earn
            a living.
            d) the majority of customers tend to look on a servant as a server
            nowadays.

            56. The author says she'll one day take her clients to dinner in
            order to ___.
            a) see what kind of person they are
            b) experience the feeling of being served
            c) show her generosity towards people inferior to her
            d) arouse their  a humble life

            新东方参考答案：
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            52 C One’s occupation affects the way one is treated as a person
            53 A Some customers simply show no respect to those who serve them
            54 D She found it natural for professionals to treat her as inferior

            55 B Those working in the service industry shouldn’t be treated as
            servants
            56 A See what kind of person they are