58. The phone boxes are making a comeback ______. ( )
- A. to form a beautiful sight of the city
- B. to improve telecommunications services
- C. to remind people of a historical period
- D. to meet the requirement of green economy
答案：C
答案句：Beaten first by the march of technology and lately by the terrible weather in junkyards (废品场), the phone boxes representative of an age are now making something of a comeback. Adapted in imaginative ways, many have reappeared on city streets and village greens housing tiny cafes, cellphone repair shops or even defibrillator machines (除颤器).
参考译文：先是被技术的发展所击败，后来又在废品场里遭受恶劣天气的破坏，这些代表一个时代的电话亭如今正在卷土重来。经过富有想象力的改造，许多电话亭重新出现在城市街道和乡村绿地上，变成了小咖啡馆、手机维修店，甚至是除颤器设备存放处。
定位线索：题干“making a comeback”→答案句“making something of a comeback”；文中“representative of an age”对应选项C“remind people of a historical period”；文中“imaginative ways”对应选项A“beautiful sight”，但非目的。
解析：题干问电话亭卷土重来的原因，答案句明确指出它们“representative of an age”（代表一个时代），即提醒人们历史时期，对应C选项。A选项“beautiful sight”是改造后的结果而非目的，属于偷换概念；B选项“improve telecommunications”与原文“housing tiny cafes”等新用途不符；D选项“green economy”原文未提及，无中生有。
59. Why did the phone boxes begin to go out of service in the 1980s? ( )
- A. They were not well-designed.
- B. They provided bad services.
- C. They had too short a history.
- D. They lost to new technologies.
答案：D
答案句：After becoming an important part of many British streets, the phone boxes began disappearing in the 1980s, with the rise of the mobile phone sending most of them away to the junkyards.
参考译文：在成为英国许多街道的重要组成部分之后，随着手机的普及，大多数电话亭在20世纪80年代开始消失，被送往废品场。
定位线索：题干“in the 1980s”→答案句“in the 1980s”；文中“with the rise of the mobile phone”对应选项D“lost to new technologies”；文中“mobile phone”即新技术。
解析：题干问电话亭在80年代停止服务的原因，答案句明确说“with the rise of the mobile phone”（随着手机的兴起），即输给了新技术，对应D选项。A选项“not well-designed”与原文“designed by Giles Gilbert Scott”矛盾；B选项“bad services”原文未提及；C选项“too short a history”与原文“first appeared in 1926”不符，电话亭历史不短。
60. The phone boxes are becoming popular mainly because of ______. ( )
- A. their new appearance and lower prices
- B. the push of the local organizations
- C. their changed roles and functions
- D. the big funding of the businessmen
答案：C
答案句：As Inglis and, later other businessmen, got to work, repurposed phone boxes began reappearing in cities and villages as people found new uses for them. Today, they are once again a familiar sight, playing roles that are often just as important for the community as their original purpose.
参考译文：随着英格利斯以及后来的其他商人开始行动，重新利用的电话亭开始重新出现在城市和乡村，因为人们为它们找到了新用途。如今，它们再次成为熟悉的景象，扮演着对社区来说往往与其最初用途同样重要的角色。
定位线索：题干“becoming popular mainly because”→答案句“people found new uses for them”；文中“new uses”对应选项C“changed roles and functions”；文中“repurposed”与选项C“changed”同义。
解析：题干问电话亭重新流行的主要原因，答案句指出“people found new uses for them”（人们找到了新用途），即角色和功能发生了变化，对应C选项。A选项“lower prices”原文虽提到租金低，但那是商业案例，非主要原因；B选项“local organizations”只是部分作用，范围缩小；D选项“big funding”原文未提及，无中生有。