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Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have just visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.
I am one of those unfortunate people who have a very poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still manage to get lost on my way there.
When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hoped that by some chance I would get to the spot I was heading for.
I am no longer too shy to ask people for directions, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit that they do not know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you cannot possibly hope to remember; and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite direction to that in which you should be going.
If anyone ever asks me the way somewhere，I always tell him/her that I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving him/her wrong directions, but even this can have embarrassing results.
Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building.
However, at this point, I decided it was too late to turn back and search him out of the crowd behind me, as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.
Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions to my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.
【小题1】The author seems to be very frustrated by the fact that ____.

A．he is poor at giving directions

B．he is too shy to ask for direction to improve his sense of it

C．he is jealous of those who have excellent sense of direction

D．he is not born with an adequate sense of direction

【小题2】Poor in recognizing the way, the author managed to ___.

A．go without asking anyone the way in the street

B．lose himself even visiting a place repeatedly

C．show others the way when necessary

D．go to his office all by himself

【小题3】The author prefers not to ask the way now because ___.

A．he knows many people are just like him

B．he has been used to getting lost

C．he finds it hard to trust strangers

D．few people can give effective instructions

【小题4】An example is given to show the narrator’s ___.

A．embarrassing encounter

B．successful escape

C．poor sense of direction

D．stupid response

【小题5】The tone of the story is ___.

A．helpless	B．proud
C．anxious	D．humorous

答案：【小题1】D
【小题2】B
【小题3】D
【小题4】A
【小题5】D

试题分析：本文是一篇记叙文，一些人生来没有方向感，主要讲述了作者在问路和被问路时遇到的事情。
【小题1】细节理解题。根据文章第二段第一句I am one of those unfortunate people who have a very poor sense of direction可以知道作者方向感很差。故选D。
【小题2】细节理解题。根据文章中第三段第一句When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles说明作者一直在徘徊着，重复着自己的路。故选B。
【小题3】推理题。根据第三段整体大意可得出问路时，知道的人会给出很长的路线，不知道的人也会给出不同的路线，这样就会使作者非常迷惑。故选D。
【小题4】细节理解题。文章最后一段Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions to my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.可以知道遇到问去自己办公室的人的尴尬的事情。故选A。
【小题5】推理题。结合全文，作者虽然讲述了自己方向感差所遇到的一系列事情，但文章读起来并没有很压抑，反而很轻松，所以是一种幽默的手法去写的，故选D
考点:人物类短文阅读。

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