問題詳情
Passage 2
A white stranger in the streets of _____ is assumed to be a tourist, and therefore interested in buying trinkets,drugs, or prostitutes. 95 percent of _____ are black, and some of them must bow, beg, sell, or steal to capture thevisitors' money. The fastest-growing sector of the tourist economy is the "all-inclusives" hotels that offer oneprice that includes meals, drinks, tips, and transportation from the airport. Visitors to these clubs are insulatedfrom the noise and heat of the _____ street. In these clubs, all of the _____ are "help''--well-mannered and quiet,forbidden to receive tips. But in the resort, Americans can call home as if they were in Florida. Formalcolonialism has almost disappeared from the Earth, but resorts feel like the newest form--the micro-colonywhere American money is the constitution and idleness the national purpose.
Five days a week, the cruise ships would be in the harbor, and the streets would be full of pink tourists,most of them elderly, wearing shorts and looking stunned from the heat and the hassling. The attitude is one ofmutual incomprehension; fear on one side, envy on the other. The tourists get back on the boats believing thatevery _____ is a hustler of some kind, and the youths take the minibus back up the coast certain that everyAmerican is rich. When I arrived in _____ , I envied the tourists and rich people whom I saw driving past inair-conditioned splendor.
【題組】31. What does the word, "hustler," mean?
(A) a criminal who commits homicide
(B) a person who devises and executes designs
(C)one who is in charge or in command of others
(D) someone who tries to deceive people into givimoney
參考答案
答案:D
難度:計算中-1
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