It was a beautiful day at the beach—blue sky, gentle wind, calm sea．I knew these things because a man sitting five feet from me was shouting them into his mobile phone, like a play-by-play announcer （實(shí)況解說(shuō)員）.
“IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY,” he shouted．“THE SKY IS BLUE, AND THERE’S A GENTLE WIND, AND THE WATER IS CALM, AND…”
Behind me, a woman, her mobile phone pressed to her ear was walking back and forth.
“She DIDN’T,” she was saying．“No．She DIDN’T．She DID? Really? Are you SERIOUS? She did NOT．She DID? No she…”
And so on．This woman had two children, who were playing in the sea．I found myself watching them, because the woman surely was not．A huge squid could have caught and snatched the children, and this woman would not have noticed．Or, if she had noticed, she’d have said, “Listen．I have to go, because a huge squid just……No! She didn’t ! She DID? No! She……”
And next to me, the play-by-play man would have said: “…AND A HUGE SQUID JUST ATE TWO CHILDREN, AND I’M GETTING A LITTLE SUNBURNED, AND …”
It used to be that the major trouble at the beach was the fellow who brought a boom box （便攜式錄音機(jī)） and turned it up so loud that the bass notes caused seagulls to explode．But at least you knew where these fellows were; you never know which beachgoers have mobile phones．You’ll settle next to what appears to be a sleeping sunbather, or even （you hope） a corpse , and you’ll lie happily on your towel, and you’ll get all the way to the second sentence of your 467-page book before you fall asleep to the hypnotic surge of the surf （催人入夢(mèng)的潮聲）, and …
BREEP! BREEP! The corpse sits up, feels urgently for its mobile phone, and shouts “Hello! I’m at the beach! Yes! It’s nice! Very peaceful! What? She did? No, she didn’t! She DID? No, she…”
Loud mobile-phoners never seem to get urgent calls．Just once, I’d like to hear one of them say, “Hello? Yes, this is Dr．Johnson．Oh, Dr．Smith．You’ve opened the abdominal cavity （腹腔）? Good! Now the appendix should be right under the … What? No, that’s the liver．Don’t take THAT out, ha ha! Oh, you did? My God! OK, now listen carefully…”
小題1:From the passage we can know that the writer of the passage _____.
A．had a wonderful holiday at the beach
B．must have suffered a lot because of the terrible weather
C．is only interested in talks by doctors about operation
D．experienced an unhappy holiday at the beach
小題2:According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A．The writer often spends his holidays at the beach.
B．A huge squid ate two children while their mother was not watching.
C．Some people used to play boom box while spending their holidays at the beach.
D．Some people often make loud mobile phone calls without caring for others.
小題3:The underlined word“ corpse”in this passage has the closest meaning to________.
A．a(chǎn) dead bodyB．a(chǎn) loud mobile phone
C．a(chǎn) sound sleeperD．a(chǎn) sleep lover
小題4:In the past the fellow who brought a boom box_________.
A．turned it up to make the seagulls happy
B．turned it up to cause the seagulls to explode
C．might cause less trouble than the beachgoers with mobile phones
D．might cause more trouble than the beachgoers with mobile phones
小題5:We can infer from the passage that _______.
A．the writer is interested in mobile phone.
B．the writer hates people using mobile phone
C．the writer hates to be disturbed while enjoying holidays on the beach.
D．the writer seldom finishes reading a book before going to sleep.

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:C
小題5:C
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