Kevin Hines, a manic-depressive, was 19 and in one of his weekly downswings on an overcast Monday morning in 2000. He went to the nearby Golden Gate Bridge to kill himself mostly because, with only a four-foot (1.2-metre) railing to leap, "I figured it was the easiest way." He dived over, but flipped and hit the water at 75mph with his feet first. His legs were crushed, but he somehow stayed conscious and started paddling with his upper body until the Coast Guard fished him out.
Mr. Hines is one of 26 people who have survived suicide attempts at the bridge, but 1 223 are known to have succeeded (i. e., were seen jumping or found floating). People are throwing themselves off the bridge at the rate of two a month, which makes it the most popular place in the world for suicides. One book on the subject says that the Golden Gate is "to suicide what Niagara Falls is to honeymooners".
Many San Franciscans think that the solution is to emulate the Empire State Building, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, St. Peter’s basilica and other such places and put up a simple barrier. This, however, is a decision for the 19 board members of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, an entity that oversees the bridge itself and the buses and ferries that operate in the area. Most of its revenues’ come from tolls and fares, and the district loses money. A barrier would cost between $15 million and $ 25 million.
So the Psychiatric Foundation of Northern California, which has adopted the barrier as its cause, considers it a success that the board has merely allowed a feasibility study, for which various private and public donors have raised
$ 2 million. Mel Blaustein, a director at the foundation, has heard several arguments against a barrier over the years-too ugly, too expensive, and so forth--but the most persistent has been that people would simply kill themselves somewhere else, so why bother.’ This is nonsense, he says, "Most suicides are impulsive and preventable." A bridge without a barrier, adds Pat Hines, Kevin’s father, is "like leaving a loaded gun in the psychiatric ward.\
What is the author’s attitude towards the foundation of barriers over the bridge（）
A.Optimistic
B. Critical
C. Biased
D. Objective
参考答案：D
解析：
[直击题眼] 此题为全文主旨态度题
[深层剖析] 本题考查学生对文章主旨及态度的理解，这与2007年真题第2篇文章第5题的出题思路一致，也是热门题型。文章从第三段开始讨论应不应该建造防护设施，第四段给出大桥董事会和基金会 * * 的意见，最后给出了凯文·海因斯父亲的看法，所有这些都是客观陈述，不带有作者主观态度。[D]正确。◆注意：此类型题要熟练掌握感情色彩词汇。
[主干扰项分析] [A]选项容易误选。考生认为对于修建防护措施作者通篇都是一个声音：赞同，但同时要注意到文中也提到了很多障碍，作者并没有表现出明显的乐观态度，所以[A]不对。◆谨记：不要把自己主观的意思带入到做题中去。
[次干扰项分析] 文章的第三、四两段都谈到如何解决问题，因此作者对于在大桥上建立防护措施的态度是正面的。[B]“批评的”和[C]“带有偏见的”均不正确。
