专四
The technology has been working well for me at the office, but there are infinite applications. Virtually in any public space.
Say you work at a big university with lots of talky faculty members buzzing about. Now, say you need to use the restroom. The trip down the hall will take approximately one hour, because a person can't walk into those talky people without getting pulled aside for a question, a bit of gossip, a new read on a certain line of Paradise Lost.
So, a cellphone. Any cellphone. Just pick it up. Don't dial. Just hold that phone to your face and start talking. Walk confidently down the hall engaged in fake conversation, making sure to tailor both the topic and content to the person standing before you whom you are trying to evade.
For standard colleague avoidance, I suggest fake chatting about fake business:
"Yes, I'm glad you called, because we really need to hammer out the details. What's that? Yes, I read Page 12, but if you look at the bottom of 4, I think you can see the problem begins right there."
Be animated. Be engaged in your fake forte conversation. Make eye contact with the people passing, nod to them, gesture keen interest in talking to them at a later time, point to your phone, shrug and move on.
Shoppers should consider fake foning anytime they spot a talky neighbor in the produce department pinching (用手捏) unripe peaches. Without your phone at your face, you'd be in for a 20-minute speech on how terrible the world is.
One important caution about fake foning. The other day I was fake foning my way past a colleague, and he was actually following me to get my attention. I knew he wanted to ask about a project I had not yet finished. I was trying to buy myself some time, so I continued fake foning with my doctor. "So I don't need the operation? Oh, doctor, that is the best news."
And then: Brrrrrrg! Brrrrrrg! Brrrrrrng! My phone started ringing, right there while it was planted on my face. My colleague looked at me, and I at him, and naturally I gasped. "What is the matter with this thing?" I said, pulling the phone away to look at it, and then putting it back to my ear.
"Hello? Are you still there?"Oops.Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
A．Cellphone service is popular among peopl
B．Cellphone has much use in offic
C．Fake foning is a new cellphone servic
D．Fake foning is a new discover
【解析】第1段第2句指出，“也许成千上万的人早就已经在享用这项服务了，然而是我刚刚发现它的”。其中“它”就是指fake foning。根据对全文的理解，fake foning并不是真正意义上的 “手机业务”．而是一种回避他人的策略，C项的表述不符合文意，故为答案。
【点睛】细节推断题。A项(手机业务很受人们欢迎)和B项(手机在办公室有很大用处)是众所周知的情况，故而排除不选。第l段也指出作者最近才发现fake foning．说明这一现象是个新发现，所以D项也应排除。
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