After years of study, I have known there are only two types of people in this world: those who get to the airport early and those who arrive when the plane is about to take off.
If there were any justice(公正)in this world, early-airport people would be rewarded for doing the right thing. And late-airport people would be punished. But early-airport people get ulcers(溃疡), heart attacks and bite their fingernails to the bone. Late-airport people almost don’t realize they are flying.
A guy of that kind once said, “Don’t hurry. If you miss your flight, it’s because God doesn’t want you to go.” This is clearly a guy who is never going to get an ulcer.
Early-airport people suffer another “name”. They are called exactly what they are -wimps(窝囊废). I know. I was an early-airport person for years. “My baggage will get on the plane first,” I told myself. Indeed it would, which made it the last baggage they took off the plane after landing.
Another strange thing: No matter how early I showed up, I was always told that someone had called two or three years ahead of me and asked for the best seat. I thought it was a trick. I thought there was someone in America who called every airline every day and said: “Is that wimp Simon flying somewhere today? If he is , give me his seat.”
After a lifetime arguing with my wife over whether I really have to pack 24 hours in advance and set the alarm clock four hours ahead, I have learned another fact about early-airport people and late –airport people:
They always marry each other.
We can learn from the passage that .
A.late-airport persons are often nervous |
B.early-airport persons are always at ease during the flight |
C.early-airport persons get their baggage first after the landing |
D.late-airport persons always take things easy |
Paragraph 5 mainly wants to tell us that .
A.someone always plays tricks on the writer |
B.the airlines usually fool passengers |
C.early-airport persons always can’t get good seats |
D.the service of airlines is very bad |
This passage is written in order to .
A.give readers tips about taking a plane |
B.offer suggestions about having a good plane trip |
C.express the writer’s anxiety about taking a plane |
D.show people’s different attitudes toward catching planes |
It could be inferred that the writer’s wife is .
A.an early-airport woman | B.a late-airport woman |
C.a hot-tempered woman | D.a sensitive woman |