Read the following passage and choose the most likely answer to each of the following questions.
It was one of those days, an ordinary October day. I woke up weary and all of the routines of life were chores, the people in it irritants. I wasn't feeling any sense of gratitude for comfortable home or lovely family. I dropped my two older children at school with a sense of relief and reluctantly headed to the supermarket to buy groceries with my youngest.
I was feeling resentful at having to go in the first place (why do they have to eat?) and my son, just four years old at the time and responding to my mood, was being difficult. I raced around with the trolley, thoughtlessly tossing items in with no regard to cost, while trying to control my naughty child whose behavior had now become completely unacceptable. Yet, I was that mother, shouting, threatening, and despairing at a small child. The kind of behavior you see in others before you have children and think, I will never be one of those people.
We eventually made it to the checkout, and stood in the queue waiting our turn. After a short time, I noticed that someone had joined the line behind us. I turned around and saw an old man. He was stooped (驼背) over and wore a dirty overcoat, tied around the middle with rope. His shoes were split and his trousers flapped around sockless ankles on this cold, wet day. In his hands he carried a small carton of long-life milk.
As I had trolley full of groceries, I asked him if he'd like to go ahead of me. It wasn't an act of kindness on my part, rather an automatic reaction, deeply rooted in me since childhood from the times I went shopping with my mother. Perhaps I just did it out of a sense of obligation or guilt. Perhaps I just wanted him gone. After all, his presence made me uncomfortable, in the same way I feel uncomfortable and turn away my eyes when passing a homeless person.
He looked shocked and uncertain. "No, I couldn't possibly, are you sure? How kind of you,"he stuttered. Reluctantly he went ahead, paid for his milk, and took his change.
Then, to my amazement, he turned to my little boy and gently pressed the change into his hand. I protested that it wasn't necessary but he was insistent. And my son, who had up to this minute been a thorn in my side, smiled his most beautiful smile, looked at this stranger frankly, and without judgment or hesitation, bear-hugged him around his dirty legs. The man gave a sheepish, gummy smile, then walked off, turning again to say thank you and wave.
I wondered at his life and at his reaction. Was he so rarely shown any humanity? Did he feel he needed to pay for being acknowledged?
I felt shame at my earlier self-pity. This humble, kind stranger had made me resolve to be more thankful—and made my little angel skip out of the supermarket with joy.
I never saw the man again but I think about him often.
What made the writer let the old man check out first? ( )
A、
She might want to set an example for her son.
B、
She might want the old man to be out of sight.
C、
She felt unsafe with the old man standing behind her.
D、
She thought the old man was too weak to wait in line.
【正确答案】：B
【题目解析】：
本题考查作者让那位老人先结账的起因。
定位到第四段“It wasn't an act of kindness on my part, rather an automatic reaction, deeply rooted in me since childhood from the times I went shopping with my mother…Perhaps I just wanted him gone. After all, his presence made me uncomfortable, in the same way I feel uncomfortable and turn away my eyes when passing a homeless person.这不是我的善举，而是一种自从我小时候和母亲一起购物时就深深扎根于我内心的不假思索的反应。…可能我只是想让他尽快离开。毕竟他的存在让我感到不自在，就如同我经过一个无家可归的人身边时感到不自在并移开视线一样”，因此作者可能是希望这位老人结完账尽快离开，不想看见他。故B选项符合题意。