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In a moment of personal crisis, how much help can you expect from a New York

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问题     In a moment of personal crisis, how much help can you expect from a New York taxi driver? I began studying this question and found the answers interesting.
    One morning I got into three different taxis and announced, "Well, it’s my first day back in New York in seven years. I’ve been in prison." Not a single driver replied, so I tried again. "Yeah, I shot a man in Reno." I explained, hoping the driver would ask me why, but nobody asked. The only response came from a Ghanaian driver, "Reno? That is in Nevada?"
    Taxi drivers were uniformly sympathetic when I said I’d just been fired. "This is America," a Haitian driver said. "One door is closed. Another is open." He argued against my plan to burn down my boss’s house. A Pakistani driver even turned down a chance to profit from my loss of hope; he refused to take me to the middle of the George Washington Bridge—a $20 trip. "Why you want to go there? Go home and relax. Don’t worry. Take a new job."
    One very hot weekday in July, while wearing a red ski mask and holding a stuffed pillowcase with the word "BANK" on it, I tried calling a taxi five times outside different banks. The driver picked me up every time. My ride with a Haitian driver was typical of the superb assistance I received.
    "Let’s go across the park." I said. "I just robbed the bank there. I got $25,000."
    "$25,000?" he asked.
    "Yeah, you think it was wrong to take it?"
    "No, man. I work 8 hours and I don’t make almost $70. If I can do that, I do it too."
    As we approached 86th and Lexington, I pointed to the Chemical Bank.
    "Hey, there’s another bank," I said, "Could you wait here a minute while I go inside?"
    "No, I can’t wait Pay me now." His reluctance may have had something to do with money—taxi drivers think the rate for waiting time is too low—but I think he wanted me to learn that even a bank robber can’t expect unconditional support. [br] From the Ghanaian driver’s response, we can infer that_____.
选项 A、he was indifferent to the killing
B、he was afraid of the author
C、he looked down upon the author
D、he thought the author was crazy
答案 A
解析 推理判断题。从第2段最后一句的only response可以看出这个司机只问了一个与杀人这件事无关的问题，由此可见，司机对此事毫不关心，态度冷淡。
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