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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] What is the author’s interpretation of the driver’s reluctance "to wait outside the Chemical Bank"?
选项 A、The driver thought that the rate for waiting time was too low.
B、The driver thought it wrong to support a taxi rider unconditionally.
C、The driver was frightened and wanted to leave him as soon as possible.
D、The driver did not want to help a suspect to escape from a bank robbery.
答案 B
解析 事实细节题。本题考查对复杂句的理解。答案可以在文章的最后一句话中找到，破折号后面but引出的转折句才是作者对司机不愿等人的理解。A是一般出租车司机的想法，由may可知作者并不确定那个司机是否有此考虑，A不对；C和D都无原文依据。
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