题目内容
5. If you don't sign up on the billboard, you ________.
查看答案
搜索结果不匹配？点我反馈
更多问题
4. According to the article, travelling may be difficult when ________.
3. In the scheduled system, people ________.
2. The friend of the author thought that ________.
Passage 4Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.Part of the strain of living in the U.S. comes from the scheduling nightmare. I call it a nightmare because you feel like nothing in the world but a piece of stuffing to fill a preset structure of life that consists of appointments all stupidly scheduled long ahead. Sometimes it seems to have to do with morality, to keep on the schedule because otherwise you may be of trouble to others; I doubt others like to be scheduled, though, as people often yell “give me a break!” Anyway, when you invite a girl out to dine and she checks her schedule book, you will realize what I am talking about.A friend landed the U.S. last year and had difficulty understanding why I had to return the car that I rented for a weekend on time. Leaving aside for a while the responsibility a renter is supposed to take, he and I discussed the technical possibility of not returning the car on time. His argument was that now the car was under my control, I could keep it as long as I liked to. He did not think the company would call the cops to find me somewhere. “In the end,” I told him, “I would be charged ten times more than the normal rent for the delay.” He said it’s nonsense and suggested I refuse to pay that. I agree from the heart but I knew my credit card number was in the company's hand. Who's to blame? Without a credit card you absolutely couldn't rent a car!The conclusion we got in the discussion is that if he were the next customer who had scheduled his time, reserved and was waiting for the car I was driving, he would jump on me, or the company, for my delay. This is how the scheduling system goes: everyone is obligated. Similar situations are seen in appointments for meeting with people, hotel reservations, and even the barber shop. Before you set out on a trip, you are supposed to call hotels or motels on your way for room reservations. More often than not, you may be asked to pay the deposit first, lest you change your mind and the room reserved for you be left empty. Think about this if you are going to take a two week trip with ten stops. The reservation work alone is already making you crazy! What is more is that it is forbidden for you to be ill, or, given you planned the trip for therapy, it's forbidden for you to get better, if you want to avoid the trouble in trying to get your deposit back.In the computer lab of my department of the university, there are always two sheets of paper staled on the billboard for people signing up for their hours to use computers within the upcoming two days. If one does not sign up, he still can come any time. But, whether he can sit down in front of a machine depends on whether there are any free. The same happens in the Pistol club: to guarantee a firing line you have to signup ahead. You might be grinning to yourself because you did not sign anything but got a line. You have loaded the gun and set the target in 50 feet, when someone whispered behind one of your ears: “Did you sign up for this line, sir?” You have to go.1. One of the causes of the tense life in the U.S. is that people ________.
微信支付 
支付宝支付