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Before my many years’ service in a restaurant, I attended a top science univ

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问题     Before my many years’ service in a restaurant, I attended a top science university. At that time, I was finishing the project that would win me my professorship. In the end, it resulted in my becoming a kitchen employee.
    My forty-second birthday had made a lonely visit the week before, and I was once again by myself in the flat. Like countless other mornings, I ordered a donut from the toaster. "Yes, sir!" it replied with robotic relish, and I began the day’s work on the project. It was a magnificent machine, the thing I was making— capable of transferring the minds of any two beings into each other’s bodies.
    As the toaster began serving my donut on to a plate, I realized the project was in fact ready for testing. I took out the duck and the cat—which I had bought for this purpose—from their containers, and set about calibrating the machine in their direction. Once ready, I leant against the table, holding the donut I was too excited to eat, and initiated the transfer sequence. As expected, the machine whirred and hummed into action, my nerves tingling at its synthetic sounds.
    The machine hushed, extraction and injection pipes poised, scrutinizing its targets. The cat, though, was suddenly gripped by terrible alarm. The brute leapt into the air, flinging itself onto the machine. I watched in horror as the nozzles swung towards me: and, with a terrible, dizzy whirl of colours, I felt my mind wrenched from its sockets.
    When I awoke, moments later, I noticed first that I was two feet shorter. Then, I realized the lack of my limbs, and finally it occurred to me that I was a toaster. I saw immediately the solution to the situation—the machine could easily reverse the transfer—but was then struck by my utter inability to carry this out.
    After some consideration, using what I supposed must be the toaster’s onboard computer, I devised a strategy for rescue. I began to familiarize myself with my new body: the grill, the bread bin, the speaker and the spring mechanism. Through the device’s eye—with which it served its creations—I could see the internal telephone on the wall. Aiming carefully, I began pushing slices of bread at it. The toaster was fed by a large stock of the stuff, yet as more and more bounced lamely off the phone, I began to fear its exhaustion. [br] From the last paragraph, we can infer that______.
选项 A、the toaster may have run out of control
B、the person may destroy his new body
C、the attempt to get out of the trouble may fail
D、the function of the machine may be altered
答案 C
解析 推断题。由题干直接定位至最后一段。发明者通过控制自己的面包机身体来推动面包，以触响电话机求助。但从最后一句可知，这个方法并不是很奏效，且发明者开始担心能量会耗尽。由此可以推测，这个求助方法可能会失败，故[C]为答案。[A]“面包机可能已经失去控制”和[B]“这个人可能会毁坏他的新身体”是对原文中exhaustion一词的曲解或者可以说是过度推断，因此排除；而[D]“机器的功能可能会改变”在本段中并未提及，故也排除。
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