問題詳情
(2) The Darwin Awards are a humorous collection of true stories about how some people die instrange ways. Indeed, people may wonder how someone's death can be funny before they hear some examples. These examples of “black humor” share one important element─the “winners” were doing something surprisingly stupid that caused their demise. Often, these characters are adventurers or risk-takers who have “difficulty” telling danger from safety. Sometimes, however, they are just people who made bad decisions and suffered the results. One of the examples is that a man was driving his girlfriend to work at high speed. She wanted him to hurry and joked that she could walk faster than he was driving. She then opened the door, stretched out her feet, and fell to her death. In another case, a young man was hiking with friends. He thought it would be fun to slide down the face of a mountain. A giant rock slide followed. His dead body was found three days later, 1000 feet below. In 2000, winners included “a woman sleeping on the roof,” “two friends shooting beer cans off each other,” and “six men sailing in a two-man boat.” In 1994, Wendy Northcutt, a U.S. scientist began collecting news about “stupid deaths” from the Internet. Soon, she published them on a website and later wrote books on them. There are now over 250 stories. Named after Charles Darwin, creator of the theory of evolution (進化論), these awards honor “those who improve the human race by removing themselves from the gene pool (基因庫).” Clearly, this is one award nobody wants to win.
【題組】41. The main purpose of this passage is to ________.
(A) motivate people to end their lives creatively
(B) explain Charles Darwin's theory of evolution
(C) honor those who have won the Darwin Awards
(D) introduce an unusual award and its winners
參考答案
答案：[無官方正解]
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(1),C(1),D(2),E(0)