The humiliation continues. At university graduation ceremonies, the ABCs proudly get their awards first; by the time they reach the Zysmans most people are literally having a ZZZ. Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough through them.

　　46. What does the author intend to illustrate with AAA A cars and Zodiac cars？

　　[A] A kind of overlooked inequality.

　　[B] A type of conspicuous bias.

　　[C] A type of personal prejudice.

　　[D] A kind of brand discrimination.

　　[答案] A

　　[解题思路]

　　AAAA和Zodiac汽车出租公司这个例子出现在文章的第二段，是说人们平时通过查电话号码簿叫出租车的时候，名字以A开头的公司比名字以Z开头的公司远远要有优势，这就是第一段中提到的“discrimination of alphabetism”(字母表主义)。同时该段明确指出这种歧视一一直没有受到人们的注意，也就是被忽视。因此本题题干的例子是用来解释说明第一段提出的文章中心思想，因此正确答案为A，其中overlooked对应于第一段第三句的unaware of ， 而inequality对应于该段第一句的unfairness 和discrimination。B、C选项中bias, prejudice都是discrimination的同义词，但conspicuous与原文正好相反，personal 也与原文不符合。D选项brand(商标)也没有在文中提到。本题的关键是抓住区分几个修饰词的含义。

　　[题目译文]

　　作者用AAAA和Zodiac汽车出租公司的例子是想要说明什么？

　　[A] 一种被忽视的不平等

　　[B] 一种明显的歧视

　　[C] 一种个人偏见

　　[D] 一种品牌偏见

　　50. Which of the following is true according to the text?